The post R.I.P. Alan Ladd Jr, Legendary Film Exec Behind Star Wars, Braveheart, Blade Runner Dead at 84 appeared first on Consequence. Born October 22nd, 1937, Ladd Jr. grew up in the shadow of his ...

Alan Ladd Jr, the veteran film producer who won a Best Picture Oscar for Braveheart, commissioned George Lucas to write Star Wars and was an influential executive for Fox and MGM/United Artists, died ...

Alan Ladd Jr. — “Laddie” to everyone — is a scion of Old Hollywood who’s managed to teach New Hollywood a thing or two about making pictures. Says Michael Gruskoff, producer of “Young Frankenstein” ...

It couldn't have been easy to grow up as the only son of "Shane," but Alan Ladd Jr. somehow made it work. Ladd père became a movie legend as the gunfighter protagonist of George Stevens' 1953 Western ...

Alan Ladd Jr, who commissioned George Lucas to write Star Wars, won a Best Picture Oscar for producing Braveheart and was an influential executive for Fox and MGM/United Artists, died March 2, his ...