The entertainment world has lost one more jewel from its golden era. Oscar-winning producer David Brown, who was best known as Richard Zanuck’s producing partner, died Monday at his Manhattan home. He succumbed to kidney failure at the ripe old age of 93.
Broadway World reports,
A once-time executive at both Fox and Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, New York City born Brown was best known as the producing partner of Richard D. Zanuck. They were jointly awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1990 for their achievements in producing. Among their films were “The Sting,” the first of their own company’s, two of Steven Spielberg’s early films, The Sugarland Express and Jaws, and such box office hits as Cocoon, and Driving Miss Daisy. Under the banner of his own Production Company, The Manhattan Project Ltd., Brown produced such hits as Angela’s Ashes, Chocolat, Kiss the Girl, and Along Came A Spider.
Apart from his hit Hollywood ventures, Brown is also remembered for his Broadway shows, including Tru, Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical (2002), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005), and the off-Broadway Jerry Herman musical revue Showtune (2003).
R.I.P. David Brown.
