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Jake Eberts, OC (July 10, 1941 – September 6, 2012) was a Canadian film producer, executive and financier. He was known for risk-taking and producing a consistently high caliber of movies including such Academy Award-winning titles as Chariots of Fire (1981, uncredited), Gandhi (1982), Dances with Wolves (1990), and the successful animated feature Chicken Run (2000).
Sep 12, 2012 · Jake Eberts, Accidental Film Producer of Oscar Winners, Dies at 71. By William Yardley. Sept. 12, 2012. Jake Eberts, who trained to be a chemical engineer but instead built a career producing and ...
Jake Eberts was a Canadian producer and actor who worked on films such as Open Range, The Name of the Rose and Driving Miss Daisy. He died in 2012 from uveal melanoma and wrote a book about his career in the movie industry.
- Producer, Actor
- July 10, 1941
- Jake Eberts
- September 6, 2012
Jake Eberts, renowned film producer. It seemed that anything Mr. Eberts ever did within a career of considerable accomplishment was given lavish coverage here. That he spoke fluent French, produced some films in the province, was a graduate of McGill University, and maintained a pied-à-terre here, helped the cause. The English community was ...
Sep 10, 2012 · Producer Jake Eberts, who played a key role in such Oscar-winning British films as Chariots of Fire and Gandhi, has died at the age of 71. The financier founded Goldcrest Films in the 1970s and ...
Sep 8, 2012 · “Without Jake Eberts,” Richard Zanuck told the New York Times in 1990, “‘Miss Daisy’ would never have been made.” The son of an Alcan Aluminum executive, Eberts was born in Montreal on ...
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Apr 2, 2013 · John D. Eberts (born at Montréal 1941; died there 6 Sept 2012). Jake Eberts was one of the most successful and well-respected Canadian-born film producers. A McGill graduate, after a brief career as a chemical engineer he became a Wall Street banker – with an MBA from Harvard – dealing specifically with risk capital.
