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    Alan Ladd Jr.

    American film producer

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  2. Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. (October 22, 1937 – March 2, 2022) was an American film industry executive and producer. He served as president of 20th Century Fox from 1976 to 1979, during which he approved the production of Star Wars , on his confidence of George Lucas , which proved well founded.

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  3. Mar 3, 2022 · Misha Erwitt for The New York Times. Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. was born on Oct. 22, 1937, in Los Angeles to Alan Ladd, best known as the star of the 1953 western “Shane,” and his first wife ...

  4. Mar 3, 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...

  5. Mar 2, 2022 · Alan Ladd Jr. was born in Los Angeles in 1937, the son of popular Western and film noir actor Alan Ladd, who starred in George Stevens’ 1953 western Shane in the lead role, among many other notable films. Ladd Jr. first began his Hollywood career as an agent for the likes of Warren Beatty and Robert Redford in the 1960s.

  6. Mar 2, 2022 · Alan Ladd Jr., an Oscar-winning producer and former studio boss who, as a top executive at 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, was best known for greenlighting George Lucas’ landmark blockbuster...

  7. Mar 3, 2022 · By Variety. Oscar-winning producer and influential motion picture executive Alan Ladd Jr., who ushered in the “Star Wars” era of motion pictures, died Wednesday. He was 84. “With the heaviest...

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