David Brown (producer)
David Brown ( born July 28, 1916 in New York City; † February 1, 2010 in New York City ) was an American film producer and journalist.
Life
David Brown was born the son of Lillian Baren and Edward Fisher Brown in New York City. He studied at Stanford University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He then worked as a journalist for the The Saturday Evening Post, Harper 's Magazine, Collier's and Cosmopolitan. There he met the later editor in chief of Cosmopolitan know, Helen Gurley Brown. Both were married in 1959.
1951 Darryl F. Zanuck hired Brown for his studio 20th Century Fox as the head of the script development. Together with Darryl's son, Richard D. Zanuck, he left Fox in 1971 back to establish their own production company. Together they produced with Sugarland Express and Jaws two feature films of Steven Spielberg. For the latter they were considered at the Oscar ceremony in 1976 with a nomination for Best Picture. It was his first of four nominations. It should be three more episodes, for the films The Verdict - The truth and nothing but the truth (1982 ), A Few Good Men (1992) and Chocolat - A small bite is enough ( 2000). With the founding of his own production company, The Manhattan Project Ltd. in 1988 parted ways Zanuck and Brown. Only the production of the 1998's disaster movie Deep Impact they worked together again.
On February 1, 2010 David Brown died at the age of 93 from kidney failure. His wife died on 13 February 2012. Their five- decade-long marriage remained childless. David had a son from a previous marriage. The Institute Brown Institute for Media Innovation, founded in 2012 was due to the initiative of the two. With a donation of 30 million U.S. dollars they donated the Institute, which deals with the journalism in the new media, which is both the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford University School of Engineering affiliated.