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Mar 2, 2022 · NEW YORK — Alan Ladd Jr., the Oscar-winning producer and studio boss who as a 20th Century Fox executive greenlit Star Wars, has died. He was 84. Ladd died 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.
Mar 13, 2024 · Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. was born on the 22nd October 1937, in Los Angeles, California USA, and is a movie producer as well as a studio executive. However, as Alan Ladd Jr. he is most famous for being the former head of 20th Century Fox, MGM and the later Paramount Pictures and is the man responsible for existence of today’s cult classic movies such as “Star Wars” saga, “Alien” (1979), “Blade Runner” (1982), “The Man in the Iron Mask” (1998) as well as “Braveheart” (1995 ...
Alan Ladd was an American actor and producer who had a net worth of $3 million at the time of his death in 1964. He was born on September 3, 1913 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He was best known for his roles in films such as This Gun for Hire, The Blue Dahlia, Shane, and The Carpetbaggers. Ladd began his career as a contract player for Paramount ...
Mar 2, 2022 · Alan Ladd Jr., the Oscar-winning producer whose credits include Best Picture winners “Braveheart” and “Chariots of Fire,” died on Wednesday at the age of 84, according to his daughter ...
Alan Ladd Jr. is an executive producer responsible for green lighting Star Wars and Alien. Star Wars and Alien. executive producer. His independent production company went on to make Blade Runner ...
Oct 26, 2017 · Their son, Alan Ladd, Jr. was born in 1937. His destitute alcoholic mother moved in with them and Ladd witnessed her agonizing suicide from ant poison a few months later. Ladd’s 5’5″ height and coloring were regarded as not right for movies, so he concentrated on radio, where talent scout and former actress Sue Carol discovered him early in 1939.
Jul 7, 2010 · Jr — a.k.a. “Laddie” — began his career in 1963 as a movie agent at Creative Management Associates. Among his clients were Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Redford. Five years later, he began his producing career by moving to London and making nine films in just four years, including 1970’s “The Walking Stick.”. In 1973, he came back ...
