![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Producer, Co-producer, Executive Producer, Actor Born: July 28, 1916 in New York City, NY Biography:"David Brown" is a producer and production executive who, with longtime friend "Richard Zanuck", formed the independent Zanuck-Brown production company, which was responsible for two of Hollywood's all time biggest smash hits, the Oscar-winning "The Sting" (1973) and "Steven Spielberg"'s "Jaws" (1975). Brown and Zanuck also produced Spielberg's feature film debut "Sugarland Express" (1974), thereby launching the career of one of Hollywood's most important directors. The extraordinary Brown would go on to produce a number of other important and popular films, including the "Paul Newman" tour-de-force "The Verdict" (1982), the Oscar-winning "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), and "Robert Altman"'s controversial but acclaimed "The Player" (1992).
Born in New York City, Brown attended Stanford University and the Columbia School of Journalism before working as editor-in-chief of Liberty Magazine, and as... Full Biography
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