Jon Davison (born July 21, 1949) is an American film producer.
Career
Davison worked at
New World Pictures
New World Pictures (also known as New World Entertainment and New World Communications Group, Inc.) was an American independent production, distribution, and (in its final years as an autonomous entity) multimedia company. It was founded in 19 ...
in the 1970s.
His producing credits include ''
Airplane!'' (1980), ''
RoboCop
''RoboCop'' is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Fer ...
'' (1987), ''
RoboCop 2'' (1990), ''
Starship Troopers
''Starship Troopers'' is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the US suspending nuclear tests, the story was first published as a two-part serial in ''The Magazine of F ...
'' (1997), and ''
The 6th Day'' (2000).
Davison and animator
Sally Cruikshank[Dixon, Wheeler Winston, ed. ''Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-Century Cinema.'' ]Carbondale, Illinois
Carbondale is a city in Jackson and Williamson Counties, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt". The city developed from 1853 because of the stimulation of railroad construction into the ...
: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, p. 209. were married March 17, 1984, and have a daughter, Dinah.
Archive
The moving image collection of Joe Dante and Jon Davison is held at the Academy Film Archive. The joint collection includes feature films, pre-production elements, and theatrical trailer reels.
Select filmography
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
Film
;As an actor
;Miscellaneous crew
;Second unit director or assistant director
;Production manager
;Thanks
Television
;As an actor
;Miscellaneous crew
References
External links
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1949 births
American film producers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)