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Saul Zaentz (/ ˈ z æ n t s /; 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 .
- American
- January 3, 2014 (aged 92), San Francisco, California, United States
- February 28, 1921, Passaic, New Jersey, United States
- Rutgers University
Sun 5 Jan 2014 13.05 EST. The career of the film producer Saul Zaentz, who has died aged 92, was marked not only by his independence (his productions were often largely self-funded) but also by ...
Saul Zaentz (1921-2014) Saul Zaentz. 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 settled in San Francisco after WWII, at first working for a local record distributor and eventually joining the jazz record label ...
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- Passaic, New Jersey, USA
- January 1, 1
- San Francisco, California, USA
Jan 4, 2014 · Mark Memmott. "Saul Zaentz, who parlayed a successful career in the music business into a Oscar-winning second act as an independent movie producer, died Friday at his home in the San Francisco ...
- Mark Memmott
Jan 5, 2014 · Saul Zaentz was born in Passaic, N.J., on Feb. 28, 1921, one of five children of Morris and Goldie Zaentz, Jewish refugees from a shtetl in eastern Poland. He ran away from home at 15, sold ...
Jan 6, 2014 · Film producer Saul Zaentz, who won best picture Oscars for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus and The English Patient, has died aged 92. A Hollywood heavyweight, Zaentz only entered the ...
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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. He was 92. Zaentz died Friday at his San Francisco apartment after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, Paul Zaentz, the producer's nephew and longtime business partner told the ...