| Company Name: | Filmways, Inc. |
| Company Type: | Corporation |
| Foundation: | 1960 |
| Location: | Sonoma County, California |
| Martin Ransohoff Industry: | Motion pictures, television programs |
| Dissolved: | 1982 into Orion Pictures: catalog now part of MGM |
Filmways, Inc. was a television and film production company founded by American film executive Martin Ransohoff in 1960. It is probably best remembered as the production company of CBS' "rural comedies" of the 1960s, including The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres, as well as the comedy-drama The Trials of O'Brien, the western Dundee and the Culhane, the adventure show Bearcats!, the police drama Cagney & Lacey, and the sitcoms Mr. Ed and The Addams Family.
Filmways acquired famous companies throughout the years, such as Heatter-Quigley Productions (for Hollywood Squares), Ruby-Spears Productions and American International Pictures.
Most productions ended with the announcement, "This has been a Filmways Presentation", with Donna Douglas providing the voice-over for the color episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies, although Green Acres featured a specialised rendition with Eva Gabor ("This has been a Filmways presentation, dahling.").
Today, most of the Filmways library, including Green Acres, The Addams Family, Cagney & Lacey, Death Wish II (a Cannon film), The Hollywood Squares, and Mister Ed is owned by MGM (successor-in-interest to Orion which it purchased in 1998, and also owners of the Cannon Films library).