John David Eberts Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jake Eberts, OC (July 10, 1941 – September 6, 2012) was a Canadian film producer, executive and financier. He was known for risk-taking and producing a consistently high caliber of movies including such award-winning titles as Chariots of Fire (1981, uncredited), Gandhi (1982), Dances with Wolves (1990), and the successful animated feature Chicken Run (2000).
People wouldn't think of someone with a chemical engineering background to end up in the movie world, but life can take you down these wonderful paths.
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Fact
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Film critic Roger Ebert said that they became friends "because at festivals we were always getting each other's mail".
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As head of National Geographic Feature Films, he helped make the documentary March of the Penguins (2005) an international box-office hit.
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He founded Goldcrest Films in the 1970s, and served as executive producer of several award-winning movies.
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He majored in chemical engineering in college, but found he wasn't very good at it. He earned an MBA from Harvard, and worked on Wall Street for three years before joining an investment house in London. In 1974, he was approached to arrange the financing for an animated feature about a group of rabbits. Watership Down (1978) became a box-office and critical success, and he became hooked on the movie business.
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In 1992 he became an Officer of the OC.
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He moved to Paris in 1991.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Walk in the Woods
2015
executive producer
Mysteries of the Unseen World
2013
Documentary short executive producer
Jerusalem
2013
Documentary executive producer
Iron Man: Armored Adventures
TV Series associate producer - 8 episodes, 2011 - 2012 executive producer - 1 episode, 2012
$100,000
