Samuel John Goldwyn Jr. (September 7, 1926 – January 9, 2015) was an American film producer.
Early life
Samuel Goldwyn Jr. was born on September 7, 1926, in
Los Angeles, California
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, the son of actress
Frances Howard (born Frances Howard McLaughlin; 1903–1976) and the pioneer motion picture
mogul
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Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmuel Gelbfisz; yi, שמואל געלבפֿיש; August 27, 1882 (claimed) January 31, 1974), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Polish-born American film producer. He was best known for being the founding contributor a ...
(1882–1974). He attended
Fountain Valley School in
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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and the
University of Virginia
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.
Career
After serving in the
United States Army
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during
World War II
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, he worked as a theatrical producer in London and for
Edward R. Murrow
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at
CBS
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in New York.
He then followed in his father's footsteps and founded the motion picture production companies Formosa Productions,
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
The Samuel Goldwyn Company was an American independent film company founded by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., the son of the famous Hollywood mogul, Samuel Goldwyn, in 1978.
Background
The company originally distributed and acquired art-house films from ...
and
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Samuel Goldwyn Films is an American film company that licenses, releases and distributes art-house, independent and foreign films. It was founded by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., the son of the Hollywood business magnate/mogul, Samuel Goldwyn. The curre ...
.
In 1950 Goldwyn married actor
Jennifer Howard (1925–1993), the daughter of prominent author and screenwriter
Sidney Howard
Sidney Coe Howard (June 26, 1891 – August 23, 1939) was an American playwright, dramatist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for ''Gone with the Wind''. ...
. The couple had four children including actor
Tony Goldwyn
Anthony Howard Goldwyn (born May 20, 1960) is an American actor, singer, producer, director, and political activist. He made his debut appearing as Darren in the slasher film '' Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives'' (1986), and had his breakthr ...
and studio executive
John Goldwyn
John Howard Goldwyn (born August 10, 1958) is an American film producer.
Biography
Goldwyn was born on August 10, 1958, in Los Angeles, California, the son of producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr., and his wife, film and stage actress Jennifer Howard. ...
. They divorced in 1968 and he married a second time to Peggy Elliot with whom he had two children. That marriage ended in divorce. At the time of his death he was married to his third wife, Patricia Strawn.
Death
Goldwyn died of
congestive heart failure
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on January 9, 2015, at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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in
Los Angeles, California
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, at the age of 88.
Partial filmography
''He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.''
Film
;Miscellaneous crew
;As director
;Thanks
Television
References
External links
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1926 births
2015 deaths
American film producers
American film studio executives
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
Businesspeople from Colorado Springs, Colorado
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
People from Beverly Hills, California
Film producers from California
Samuel
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Military personnel from California
United States Army personnel of World War II
University of Virginia alumni
20th-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesspeople
Deaths from organ failure
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