| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 4,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | A publicist says movie producer Richard Zanuck, who won an Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy, has died in California at age 77. Zanuck had a huge influence on Hollywood, as a former head of 20th Century Fox and also as a producer for the last 40 years. With Fox, he had hits such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and M.A.S.H., before being fired over disastrous failures like 1967's Doctor Dolittle. His Zanuck/Brown film company, which he later created with David Brown, is credited with giving an early chance to Steven Spielberg, who made Sugarland Express and Jaws with the firm. Jaws was Zanuck's first best picture Oscar nomination in 1975. Zanuck and Brown went on to produce such box office hits as Cocoon in 1985 and Driving Miss Daisy before dissolving their partnership in 1988. Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/07/13/richard-zanuck-obit.html | | | | Registered: July 7 2000 | | | | Last edited: by Zwollenaar |
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| Registered: March 16, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 943 |
| | Posted: | | | | R.I.P. | | | Just in from somewhere left of the middle of nowhere
The Holy See
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | There goes another one of the truly great ones.
RIP | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| | Posted: | | | | R.I.P.
He was certainly involved with some great films over the years. | | | | Corey |
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