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Rutgers University. Occupations. Film producer. record company executive. Saul Zaentz ( / ˈzænts /; February 28, 1921 – January 3, 2014) was an American film producer and record company executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times and, in 1996, was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award .
Jan 5, 2014 · Jan. 4, 2014. Saul Zaentz, an acclaimed independent film producer who adapted literary works for the screen and won best-picture Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,”...
Jan 4, 2014 · SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Saul Zaentz, a music producer whose second career as a filmmaker brought him best-picture Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” ’'Amadeus” and “The English Patient,” has died.
Jan 6, 2014 · 6 January 2014. Zaentz made a career of adapting "difficult" novels that major movie studios shied away from. Film producer Saul Zaentz, who won best picture Oscars for One Flew Over The...
Overview. Born. February 28, 1921 · Passaic, New Jersey, USA. Died. January 3, 2014 · San Francisco, California, USA (Alzheimer's disease) Mini Bio. Saul Zaentz learned gambling as a youth in Passaic, New Jersey, playing a card game called briscola. Later, in his twenties, he earned a full-time living as a gambler.
Saul Zaentz was born in 1921 in Passaic, New Jersey of Russian-Polish immigrants. At the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the US Army, serving on troop transports in the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean, rising to the rank of sergeant major.
