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  1. Aug 3, 2020 · Tom Pollock, the Hollywood dealmaker who steered George Lucas through his “Star Wars” negotiations and went on to serve as chairman on Universal Studios for 10 years, died Saturday. He was 77.

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  2. Aug 3, 2020 · Tom Pollock, the former chairman of Universal Pictures and the American Film Institute, died Saturday of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 77. “We are incredibly...

  3. Aug 2, 2020 · He died of a heart attack on August 1. At the studio, Pollock worked with many of the top directors in Hollywood: Steven Spielberg (“Jurassic Park”), Robert Zemeckis (the “Back to the...

  4. Aug 2, 2020 · Tom Pollock, the former chairman of Universal Pictures and the American Film Institute, has died, TheWrap has learned from longtime law partner Alan Hergott and screenwriter Nicholas Meyer.

  5. Aug 4, 2020 · Tom Pollock, the former Universal Pictures chairman who died Aug. 1 at the age of 77, had a shrewd eye for business. Even before he took the reins at the studio in 1986 to embark on a...

  6. Aug 3, 2020 · He died of a heart attack on August 1.

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  8. Aug 4, 2020 · Longtime Hollywood mover-and-shaker, former Montecito resident, and onetime UC Santa Barbara film studies instructor Tom Pollock died Saturday at age 77. Pollock, who cofounded the Montecito Picture Company along with film director Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters), started out his Hollywood career as an