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  1. 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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  2. Mar 3, 2022 · He was known for a relatively laid-back style in a business full of intrusive executives. Misha Erwitt for The New York Times. Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. was born on Oct. 22, 1937, in Los...

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  4. Mar 2, 2022 · Movies. Movie News. Alan Ladd Jr., ‘Star Wars’ Savior and Oscar Winner for ‘Braveheart,’ Dies at 84. A longtime studio exec and son of a movie icon, he also had a hand in such films as 'Blade...

  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 · News. Mar 2, 2022 10:45am PT. Alan Ladd Jr., Who Greenlit ‘Star Wars’ and Produced ‘Braveheart,’ Dies at 84. By Richard Natale. AP. Oscar-winning producer and influential motion picture...

  7. Mar 3, 2022 · 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.

  8. Mar 3, 2022 · Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. did not come to live on his father’s Holmby Hills estate, where the likes of Bing Crosby and Gary Cooper would stop by, until he was in his teens, having spent most of ...

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