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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 ...
Sep 12, 2012 · Jake Eberts, who trained to be a chemical engineer but instead built a career producing and financing acclaimed and successful films like “Chariots of Fire,” “Gandhi,” “Dances With Wolves” and...
Sep 10, 2012 · It is a mark of the wide-ranging success of Jake Eberts, founder of the once-mighty Goldcrest Films, who has died aged 71 after suffering from cancer, that few headline writers summing up his...
Jake Eberts was born on 10 July 1941 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a producer and actor, known for Open Range (2003), The Name of the Rose (1986) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). He was married to Fiona. He died on 6 September 2012 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Sep 7, 2012 · Jake Eberts, a producer and film financier whose movies — including best-picture winners Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Dances With Wolves and Driving Miss Daisy — captured 37 Oscars, died Thursday in...
Apr 2, 2013 · 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.
Sep 7, 2012 · Jake Eberts, who started as a film financer and gained a reputation for shepherding Oscar-winning British and American films, died Thursday in Montreal of complications from a rare cancer of eye...