Oscar-winning producer Alan Ladd Jr, who greenlit Star Wars, dies at age 84
by Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#5WPMJ)
The films he produced or greenlit won more than 50 Oscars and 150 nominations
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.
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