Freddie Fields

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Fred "Freddie" Fields (born July 12, 1923 in Ferndale , New York as Fred Feldmann , † December 11, 2007 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American Hollywood agent and film producer .

Life

Fred Fields comes from an immigrant Jewish family who changed their surname Feldmann to Fields shortly after emigrating. Fred was the 18 years younger brother of the musician Shep Fields . The family moved from New York City to the Catskill Mountains before Fred was born , where the family man Jack ran his own hotel with Queen Mountain House , in which stars like Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor performed. When the father finally died in 1929 during the Great Depression , the mother had to move from town to town with her children, working in various jobs in order to keep the family afloat. The young Fields himself worked in several auxiliary jobs. He later did his military service in the United States Navy .

In 1969 Fields founded the production company First Artists together with Barbra Streisand , Sidney Poitier , and Paul Newman . The first three feature films for Warner Bros. were released in 1972 with Two Warriors on the move , Sandpit Games and That Was Roy Bean and Steve McQueen's action film Getaway . The western Me, Tom Horn became the last film in 1980 before the production company was wound up. In the early 1980s he was hired by Begelman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . Fields became President of the Production Department and left his post in 1984 to continue working as a freelance producer. With the drama Criminal Hearts , which was nominated for three Oscars , and the war film Glory , which received two awards and two other nominations at the 1990 Academy Awards , he had two great successes. However, he had with the drama jackpot , which at the presentation of raspberry 1986 Golden nominated for Schlechinger tester film , recorded also received a major flop.

Fields was married four times in his life. His first marriage to actress Edith Fellows lasted from 1946 to 1955. Their daughter, Kathy Fields, worked as a film photographer in the 1970s. He was married to the actress Polly Bergen from 1957 to 1973, and they had two children together. The third marriage to actress Cherie Latimer lasted a year . From 1981 until his death, he stayed married to former Greek model Corinna Tsopei , Miss Universe 1964.

Fields died on December 11, 2007 at the age of 84 of complications from lung cancer at his Beverly Hills estate . His surviving spouse sold the common house for 6.3 million three years later the US dollar .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margalit Fox: Freddie Fields, Hollywood Talent Agent, Dies at 84 , nytimes.com , December 13, 2007, accessed January 3, 2015
  2. ↑ Nikki Finke: RIP: Freddie Fields , deadline.com , December 12, 2012, accessed January 3, 2015
  3. ↑ Richard Natale: Agent Freddie Fields dies at 84 , variety.com , December 12, 2007, accessed January 3, 2015
  4. ↑ John Rogers: Legendary producer / agent Freddie Fields dies , usatoday.com , December 13, 2007, accessed January 3, 2015
  5. ↑ Lauren Beale: Film producer Freddie Fields' home in Beverly Hills sells for $ 6,305 million , latimes.com , October 25, 2012, accessed January 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Fields, Freddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fields, Fred; Feldmann, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Hollywood agent and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferndale , New York
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2007
Place of death Beverly Hills , California