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David Puttnam Biography (1941-)

Full name, David Terence Puttnam; born February 25, 1941, in Southgate, England; son of Leonard Arthur (a photographer) and Marie Beatrix (a homemaker) Puttnam; married Patricia Mary Jones, 1961; children: Sasha, Debbie. Addresses: Office: Enigma Productions, 13/15 Queen's Gate Place Mews, London SW75BG, England.

Nationality

English

Gender

Male

Occupation

film producer

Birth Details

February 25, 1941

Southgate, England

Famous Works

• Credits; Film Producer
• Melody (also known as S.W.A.L.K.), Levitt-Pickman, 1971.
• (With Sanford Lieberson) The Pied Piper, Paramount, 1972.
• (With Lieberson) That'll Be the Day (also see below), EMI, 1974.
• (With Lieberson; and music producer and arranger with Dave Edmunds) Stardust (sequel to That'll Be the Day), Columbia, 1974.
• (With Roy Baird) Lisztomania, Warner Brothers, 1975.
• The Duellists, Paramount, 1977.
• (With Alan Marshall) Midnight Express, Columbia, 1978.
• (With Gerald Ayres) Foxes, United Artists, 1980.
• Chariots of Fire, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981.
• Local Hero, Warner Brothers, 1983.
• The Killing Fields, Warner Brothers, 1984.
• (With Stuart Craig) Cal, Warner Brothers, 1985.
• (With Fernando Ghia) The Mission, Warner Brothers, 1986.
• (With Catherine Wyler) Memphis Belle, Warner Brothers, 1990.
• Meeting Venus, Warner Brothers, 1991.
• Credits; Film Producer, With Others; Documentaries
• Swastika, Black Inc., 1973.
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, Dimension Pictures, 1974.
• James Dean, the First American Teenager, Visual Programme Systems(Great Britain), 1975.
• Also coproducer of Double-Headed Eagle.
• Credits; Film Executive Producer
• Mahler, New Line Cinema, 1973.
• The Last Days of Man on Earth, New World, 1973.
• Bugsy Malone, Paramount, 1976.
• Secrets, Samuel Goldwyn, 1982.
• Kipperbang (also known in England as P'Tang, Yang, Kipperbang), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982.
• Experience Preferred but Not Essential, Samuel Goldwyn, 1982.
• Those Glory Glory Days, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1983.
• Sharma and Beyond, Cinecom, 1983.
• Red Monarch, Enigma, 1983.
• Winter Flight, Cinecom, 1984.
• Forever Young, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1984.
• Mr. Love, Warner Brothers, 1985.
• The Frog Prince, Warner Brothers, 1985.
• Defence of the Realm, Warner Brothers, 1985.
• Arthur's Hallowed Ground, Cinecom, 1985.
• Knights and Emeralds, Warner Brothers, 1986.
• Credits; Television Executive Producer
• The Josephine Baker Story (movie), HBO, 1991.
• Without Warning: The James Baker Story (movie), HBO, 1991.
• "A Dangerous Man: Lawrence after Arabia," Great Performances (episodic), PBS, 1992.
• (With Derrik Mercer) Rural England: Our Countryside at the Crossroads, photographs by Derry Brabbs, Macdonald, 1988.
• Contributor to The Third Age of Broadcasting, edited by Brian Wenham, Faber, 1982. Contributor of articles and reviews to New Statesman & Society.

Further Reference

Books:

• Kipps, Charles, Out of Focus: Power, Pride, and Prejudice--David Puttnam in Hollywood, Morrow, 1989.
• Yule, Andrew, Fast Fade: David Puttnam, Columbia Pictures, and the Battle for Hollywood, Delacorte, 1988.

Periodicals

• American Film, November, 1984, p. 14.
• Films and Filming, March, 1983, p. 7.
• Newsweek, May 20, 1985, pg. 84.
• Observer (London), March 17, 1985, p. 19; August 30, 1987, p. 9.
• People, November 16, 1987, p. 125.
• Time, May 1, 1989, p. 62.
• Vanity Fair, April, 1988, p. 96.
• Variety, May 18, 1988, p. 7.
• Wall Street Journal, February 20, 1987, p. 1.