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Their first big hit was The Sting (1973), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in April 1974. The two men produced a pair of Steven Spielberg 's early films, The Sugarland Express (1974) and Jaws (1975).
Universal Pictures’ producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown stumbled upon Peter Benchley’s novel ‘Jaws’ by accident even before the book was published; they read the novel immediately and enthusiastically proclaimed it was the most exciting thing they’d ever read.
3 Videos. 35 Photos. Richard D. Zanuck was born on 13 December 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Deep Impact (1998) and Cocoon (1985). He was married to Lili Fini Zanuck, Linda Harrison and Lili Gentle.
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Dec 13, 2023 · JAWS went on to become the most popular film ever made, and the producers continued their run of good luck at Universal with 1978’s JAWS 2. The success of JAWS and JAWS 2 propelled the producers into a new league, one where their names on a movie poster was just as important as the names of the stars or the director.
Jul 18, 2012 · Remembering Hollywood Superproducer Richard D. Zanuck THR's Alex Ben Block recalls the life of a mogul's son who created a legacy all his own -- from Steven Spielberg's "Jaws" to Tim Burton's...
Jul 13, 2012 · Spielberg recounts his experience on “Jaws” in a statement to Movies Now: “In 1974, Dick Zanuck and I sat in a boat off Martha’s Vineyard and watched the mechanical shark sink to the ...
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Apr 24, 2013 · Jaws (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Ben Gardner's Boat Pretty much pure spookery, as Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) has persuaded aquaphobic Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) to come out shark-hunting at night, and the discovery of a local fishing boat and a big tooth, in Steven Spielberg's Jaws, 1975.
