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Oscar-winning producer Alan Ladd Jr dies aged 84
03.03.2022 - 08:39 / msn.com
Alan Ladd Jr, the Oscar-winning producer and studio boss who as a 20th Century Fox executive greenlit Star Wars, has died aged 84. Ladd Jr died on Wednesday, his daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones, who directed the documentary Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies, wrote in a Facebook post. No cause of death was given.
Ladd Jr, the son of Shane star Alan Ladd, started in the film business as his father’s stuntman but rose to become one of its leading – and most widely liked – executives. As studio head at Fox and MGM (twice), Ladd Jr – affectionately known as “Laddie” – was involved in some 14 best picture nominees, including Young Frankenstein (1974), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Chariots Of Fire (1981) and Blade Runner (1982). As an independent producer, Ladd Jr helped steer films including Once Upon A Time In America (1984), The Right Stuff (1983), Gone, Baby Gone (2007) and Mel Gibson’s Braveheart (1995), for which he won best picture.
All told, Ladd Jr produced or greenlit movies that won more than 50 Oscars and 150 nominations. And he did so with an easy-going, tight-lipped manner that made him widely admired by stars and filmmakers. Esquire magazine put him on the cover in 1978 with the headline: “Triumph Of The Laid-Back Style.
”A former talent agent for stars such as Robert Redford and Judy Garland, Ladd Jr joined 20th Century Fox in 1973, and later became president. There, he greenlit George Lucas’s 10 million dollar science-fiction film – the original script was titled The Adventures Of Luke Starkiller As Taken From The Journal Of The Whills, Saga 1, Star Wars – when few in Hollywood saw any potential in it. Lucas once recalled his meeting with Ladd Jr, whose faith in the filmmaker began with an early screening
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14.03.2022 / 05:39
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14.03.2022 / 05:39
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14.03.2022 / 05:39
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Alan Ladd Jr. (1937–2022), producer who greenlit “Star Wars”
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03.03.2022 / 18:37
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03.03.2022 / 12:23
Alan Ladd Jr death: Oscar-winning producer who greenlit Star Wars dies at 84
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03.03.2022 / 02:23
Oscar-winning producer Alan Ladd Jr. dies at 84
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