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American film producer (1937–2022)
Gray Frederickson
Born (1937-07-21 ) July 21, 1937Died November 20, 2022(2022-11-20) (aged 85)Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Occupation Producer Years active 1963–2022
Gray Frederickson (July 21, 1937 – November 20, 2022) was an American film producer.
Frequent collaborators and history
Frederickson was a long-time producer for
Francis Ford Coppola and worked out of a studio alongside
Greg Mellott out of
Oklahoma City .
[1]
Robert De Niro claims that in 1974 he and Frederickson went up to the
Gulf and Western Building in
New York City to a private screening room to study
Marlon Brando 's movements. De Niro compared it to a science experiment which prepared him for his character in
The Godfather Part II .
[2]
Frederickson and Coppola collaborated on
Apocalypse Now ,
One from the Heart ,
[3] and
The Outsiders .
[4]
[5] According to
Rolling Stone , the first meeting between Frederickson, Coppola, and
Al Ruddy was interrupted by a phone call from Brando.
[6]
Awards
Frederickson is best known for winning an
Oscar as one of the co-producers of
The Godfather Part II
[7] at the
47th Academy Awards .
[8] In addition he was also nominated for
Apocalypse Now .
[9] Frederickson won an
Emmy for Dream No Little Dream: The Life and Legacy of Robert S. Kerr (2007).
[10]
Later production
In the summer of 2015, Frederickson produced a new cinematic live theater art form called, 'Distant Vision' directed by
Francis Ford Coppola .
[11]
Personal life
Frederickson was married to Karen and resided in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
[12] He died of
prostate cancer on November 20, 2022, at the age of 85.
[13]
[14]
References
External links
1951–1975 1976–2000
Robert Chartoff and
Irwin Winkler (1976)
Charles H. Joffe (1977)
Michael Cimino ,
Michael Deeley , John Peverall and
Barry Spikings (1978)
Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)
Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
David Puttnam (1981)
Richard Attenborough (1982)
James L. Brooks (1983)
Saul Zaentz (1984)
Sydney Pollack (1985)
Arnold Kopelson (1986)
Jeremy Thomas (1987)
Mark Johnson (1988)
Lili Fini Zanuck and
Richard D. Zanuck (1989)
Kevin Costner and
Jim Wilson (1990)
Ron Bozman ,
Edward Saxon and
Kenneth Utt (1991)
Clint Eastwood (1992)
Branko Lustig ,
Gerald R. Molen and
Steven Spielberg (1993)
Wendy Finerman ,
Steve Starkey and
Steve Tisch (1994)
Bruce Davey ,
Mel Gibson and
Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
Saul Zaentz (1996)
James Cameron and
Jon Landau (1997)
Donna Gigliotti ,
Marc Norman ,
David Parfitt ,
Harvey Weinstein and
Edward Zwick (1998)
Bruce Cohen and
Dan Jinks (1999)
David Franzoni ,
Branko Lustig and
Douglas Wick (2000)
2001–present
Brian Grazer and
Ron Howard (2001)
Martin Richards (2002)
Peter Jackson ,
Barrie M. Osborne and
Fran Walsh (2003)
Clint Eastwood ,
Tom Rosenberg and
Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
Paul Haggis and
Cathy Schulman (2005)
Graham King (2006)
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and
Scott Rudin (2007)
Christian Colson (2008)
Kathryn Bigelow ,
Mark Boal ,
Nicolas Chartier and
Greg Shapiro (2009)
Iain Canning ,
Emile Sherman and
Gareth Unwin (2010)
Thomas Langmann (2011)
Ben Affleck ,
George Clooney and
Grant Heslov (2012)
Dede Gardner ,
Anthony Katagas ,
Jeremy Kleiner ,
Steve McQueen and
Brad Pitt (2013)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu ,
John Lesher and
James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
Blye Pagon Faust ,
Steve Golin ,
Nicole Rocklin and
Michael Sugar (2015)
Dede Gardner ,
Jeremy Kleiner and
Adele Romanski (2016)
J. Miles Dale and
Guillermo del Toro (2017)
Jim Burke , Brian Currie,
Peter Farrelly ,
Nick Vallelonga and
Charles B. Wessler (2018)
Bong Joon-ho and
Kwak Sin-ae (2019)
Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey,
Frances McDormand ,
Peter Spears and
Chloé Zhao (2020)
Fabrice Gianfermi,
Philippe Rousselet , Patrick Wachsberger (2021)
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and
Jonathan Wang (2022)
Emma Thomas ,
Charles Roven , and
Christopher Nolan (2023)