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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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- 1963–2007
- Film producer
- Alan Ladd (father)
Mar 2, 2022 · Alan Ladd Jr., the Oscar-winning producer of Braveheart and longtime executive at both Fox and MGM, died on Wednesday, according to his family. He was 84. In addition to winning the Oscar for 1995’s Best Picture winner, Braveheart, Ladd Jr. was perhaps best known as the man who greenlit Star Wars when he was an executive at 20th Century Fox.
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Family and relationships. Ladd married Marjorie Jane "Midge" Harrold, a high school sweetheart, in October 1936. Their only child, Alan Ladd, Jr., was born on October 22, 1937. They divorced in July 1941 and she died in 1957, having remarried.
Mar 2, 2022 · Alan Ladd Jr., the producer and studio executive, has died. He was 84. ... Ladd lived with his mother after his parents divorced, but she was in poor health, and he returned to his father, who ...
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 ...
Mar 2, 2022 · Alan Ladd Jr. dies; ... He was born Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. on Oct. 22, 1937. His parents were divorced when he was 2, and his father reportedly spent little time with him. Advertisement
Mar 3, 2022 · 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, Marjorie Jane Harrold.
