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Alan Walbridge Ladd [2] (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film producer. Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in films noir and Westerns. He was often paired with Veronica Lake in films noir, such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942), and The Blue Dahlia (1946).
Sue Carol (1906–1982), actress and talent agent, wife of Alan Ladd, step-mother of Alan Ladd Jr., mother of David Ladd; Jeanne Carpenter (1916–1994), child actress of silent films; Nat Carr (1886–1944), actor [31] Dona Lee Carrier (1940–1961), figure skating champion [2]
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.
Oscar-winning producer and influential motion picture executive Alan Ladd Jr., who ushered in the “Star Wars” era of motion pictures, died Wednesday. He was 84. “With the heaviest of hearts ...
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 ...
Shane is a 1953 American Western film directed and produced by George Stevens and starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde and Jack Palance. [5] [6] The screenplay, written by A. B. Guthrie Jr. (with contributions from Jack Sher), [6] is based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer. [7]
Alan Ladd Jr., the Oscar-winning producer and studio boss who as a 20th Century Fox executive greenlit “Star Wars,” has died. Ladd died Wednesday, his daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones, who directed ...
His father was Alan Ladd, an actor. His mother was Sue Carol, Alan Ladd's second wife, who was an actress and talent agent. His father had English ancestry, whereas his mother was of German-Jewish and Austrian-Jewish descent. His siblings are Alana Ladd Jackson and Carol Lee Ladd; his paternal half-brother is Alan Ladd Jr.