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  1. Mar 2, 2022 · That’s certainly true of Star Wars, which Ladd greenlit and championed as president of Twentieth Century Fox. On March 2, 2022, Ladd’s family announced that he had passed away peacefully at home. He was 84. Ladd -- or Laddie, as he was commonly known -- first came to know of George Lucas in 1973, when friends heaped praise upon the director ...

  2. Mar 3, 2022 · He was 84. Ladd died Wednesday, his daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones, who directed the documentary Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies, wrote in a Facebook post. No cause of death was given.

  3. Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. (October 22, 1937 – March 2, 2022) was an American film industry executive and producer. [1] He was president of 20th Century Fox from 1976 to 1979, during which he approved the production of Star Wars, on his confidence in George Lucas, which proved well-founded. He later established The Ladd Company and headed MGM/UA.

  4. Mar 2, 2022 · He was 84. His daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones, who directed the 2017 feature documentary Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies wrote on social media: “With the heaviest of hearts, we announce that on ...

  5. Mar 2, 2022 · Oscar-winning film producer and MGM executive Alan Ladd Jr. has died at age 84, according to family. ... I love you Laddie,” he wrote. ... 2,000-year-old tomb with 12 skeletons and Holy Grail ...

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  6. Mar 2, 2022 · Ladd lived with his mother after his parents divorced, but she was in poor health, and he returned to his father, who died from an accidental overdose of sedatives and alcohol in 1964, when Ladd ...

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  8. Mar 3, 2022 · March 3, 2022. Alan Ladd Jr., who as a producer and studio executive was a guiding hand behind scores of successful films, none bigger than “Star Wars,” which he championed when its young ...

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