Carter De Haven III, who, as a member of a distinguished, multi-generational Hollywood family, has produced notable films such as Dead heat on a merry-go-round, Olzana raid and HoosiersHe died. He was 94 years old.
De Haven died Friday at UCLA West Valley Medical Center, said film editor Carter De Haven IV. Hollywood Reporter. He has lived at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills for the past eight years.
De Haven III also spawned three films (well, maybe two and a half) directed by John Huston: A walk with love and death (1969), starring Anjelica Huston; Spy thriller movie Kremlin message (1970), starring Bibi Andersson and Richard Boone; And excitement Last run (1971), which Richard Fleischer completed after De Haven had to fire Houston amid a rant from star George C. Scott.
He also shepherded two new crime films directed by John Flynn: The outfit (1974), starring Robert Duvall, and best seller (1987), starring James Woods and Brian Dennehy and written by Larry Cohen.
De Haven made his production debut in the heist film Dead heat on a merry-go-round (1966), starring James Coburn – which was also Harrison Ford’s big-screen debut – and after all three of Houston’s films had achieved major success with Robert Aldrich’s Olzana raid (1972), a revisionist Western starring Burt Lancaster.
He found his greatest success with the direction of David Anspaugh Hoosiers (1986), starring Gene Hackman as Norman Dale, the Hickory High School basketball coach, who leads his small-town underdog team to the Indiana state championship.
Hoosiers It ranks among the most beloved sports movies of all time, with THR He placed it at number 17 on the list it published in August.
“This is an earnest and glorious celebration of the overlooked human spirit – and the 105-minute countdown to the final five minutes is guaranteed to make you cheer and cry.” THR books. “It works beautifully no matter how many times you’ve seen it or how many imitators you’ve sat with.”
An only child, Carter De Haven was born in Los Angeles on February 16, 1932. His grandparents, Carter De Haven I (real name Frances O’Callaghan) and Flora Parker, were vaudeville stars who earned the title “Mr. and Mrs. Carter De Haven” in silent comedies including Twin beds (1920) and Panic on (1923). Later, his grandfather worked with Charlie Chaplin as an assistant director Modern era (1936) and as an assistant producer on The great dictator (1940).
His father, Carter De Haven Jr., was an ad picnic (1955), Cain’s rebellion (1954) and Days of wine and roses (1964) and co-producer of Cool Hand Lock (1967).
Then there’s his father’s younger sister, Gloria DeHaven, star of MGM musicals like Thousands cheer (1943) and Energetic move (1944). She also photographed her mother in the 1950s Three little wordsStarring Fred Astaire and Red Skelton.
Carter De Haven III graduated from Hollywood High School and UCLA, then was stationed in Korea with the U.S. Army Reserve. When he told his family that he missed listening to music at the service, his father’s friend Frank Sinatra sent him a box of records.
De Haven was an AD director starting in the late 1950s on TV shows such as Schlitz Theater, Mike Hammer, Wagon train, Wells Fargo Stories, River boat, Father Bachelor, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, stir, Laramie and Virginian.
It was his first film as an advertisement Under the yum yum tree (1963), starring Jack Lemmon and Eddie Adams.
He quit his day job at Universal to start production. When Bernard Girard was the one writing and directing Dead heat on a merry-go-roundHe showed him the script for the film, he recalled in 2016: “I flipped it over. I said, ‘Jesus, I’ll make a deal with this.’” He said: How do you know that? I said: I don’t know, but I will, and I was lucky. “The first one I sent it to said, ‘Let’s make the movie.’”
According to his son, De Haven did not think much of Ford’s prospects as an actor, although he did have one brief uncredited scene as a service representative in Dead heat on a merry-go-round “Not a chance” was the exact quote. However, the two later became friends and moved on.
When Scott, who was coming off his Oscar win Pattoncomplained to De Haven that Huston was tampering with the script Last run And that this was “not the picture I signed on to make,” the producer had to sign one of Hollywood’s most revered directors.
“Not many people can recover from firing John Huston, but my father did,” his son noted.
De Haven, who read about 10 scripts a week, produced the film for Orion Pictures. Hoosiers With Angelo Pizzo, who wrote the script and insisted that Anspaugh, his former classmate at Indiana University, direct his first feature film.
“What attracted me most to the screenplay was that it embodied the truth about a particular time, place, and event in America,” De Haven says in Alan Hunter’s 1987 book. Gene Hackman. “There’s a lot of passion, a lot of interest, and a tremendous amount of hard work that has gone into this.”
His productive resume also included a biography of Lewis Gilbert Operation Dawn (1975), the elderly (1978), Michael Schultz carbon copy (1981), a parody starring Graham Chapman Yellow beard (1983), Cohen Perfect strangers (1984), Maxi (1985) and Exorcist III (1990).
In addition to his son, who edited films from it Dumber and dumber and OrgasmSurvivors include his daughter, Melinda; his grandchildren, Carly, Chelsea, Carter V, Patricia, Tess and Davis; and his grandchildren, Sophie, Sadie, Quinn and Beau. His daughter, Brooke, died in 2012.
