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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 Academy Award-winning titles as Chariots of Fire (1981, uncredited), Gandhi (1982), Dances with Wolves (1990), and the successful ...
Sep 12, 2012 · Jake Eberts, who trained to be a chemical engineer but instead built a career producing and financing acclaimed and successful films like “Chariots of Fire,” “Gandhi,” “Dances With Wolves” and...
Jake Eberts was a Canadian producer and actor who worked on films such as Open Range, The Name of the Rose and Driving Miss Daisy. He died in 2012 from uveal melanoma and wrote a book about his career in the movie industry.
- Producer, Actor
- July 10, 1941
- Jake Eberts
- September 6, 2012
Sep 10, 2012 · Producer Jake Eberts, who played a key role in such Oscar-winning British films as Chariots of Fire and Gandhi, has died at the age of 71. The financier founded Goldcrest Films in the...
Sep 8, 2012 · Jake Eberts, the Canadian independent producer and founder of Britain’s Goldcrest Films, which revived the British cinema industry in the 1980s with a string of Oscar-winning...
- Writer
Sep 7, 2012 · Jake Eberts, a producer and film financier whose movies — including best-picture winners Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Dances With Wolves and Driving Miss Daisy — captured 37 Oscars, died Thursday in...
Producer Jake Eberts died in Montreal on Sept. 6, 2012, from complications from a rare cancer of the eye that had spread to his liver. He was 71. In three decades in the feature film industry, he produced dozens of highly acclaimed films that won 18 Oscars and were nominated for 28 more, including Chariots of Fire , Driving Miss Daisy , and ...
