Alan Ladd Jr, who commissioned George Lucas to write Star Wars, won a Best Picture Oscar for producing Braveheart and was an influential executive for Fox and MGM/United Artists, died March 2, his ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Alan Ladd Jr., the Oscar-winning producer and studio boss who as a 20th Century Fox executive greenlit “Star Wars,” has died. He was 84. Ladd died Wednesday, his daughter Amanda ...

Alan Ladd Jr. — “Laddie” to everyone — is a scion of Old Hollywood who’s managed to teach New Hollywood a thing or two about making pictures. Says Michael Gruskoff, producer of “Young Frankenstein” ...

Alan Ladd Jr. and Jay Kanter have settled their remaining litigation against Warner Bros. over the studio allegedly keeping them out of profits from movies sold in packages for TV. Terms of the ...

Paul Maslansky, a producer behind films such as “Police Academy” and “Return to Oz,” died on Monday of natural causes at a hospital in Los Robles, Calif. He was 91. Maslansky collaborated frequently ...

Throughout his tragically short career, Alan Ladd starred in some of the most popular western movies of the Hollywood Golden age. A mainstay of action, adventure, and noir films throughout the '40s ...