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David Puttnam
Highest Rated: 100% Local Hero (1983)
Lowest Rated: 50% The Pied Piper (1972)
Birthday: Feb 25, 1941
Birthplace: London, England, UK
David Puttnam rose from a working-class background into the advertising business as a photographer's agent during London's Swinging 60s. After a few false starts in film, Puttnam hit his stride as a producer in two collaborations with director Alan Parker: "Bugsy Malone" (1976) and the Oscar-winning hit "Midnight Express" (1978). Puttnam would publicly regret the latter film's exploitative affect on audiences, and this unlikely "mea culpa" launched him as a responsible renegade willing to collide with stars or bankers. His eye for directors with panache gave several promising talents their debuts or breakthroughs, including Ridley Scott ("The Duellists" 1977), Roland Joffe ("The Killing Fields" 1984) and Bill Forsyth ("Local Hero" 1983). Puttnam's star never shone brighter than after his production of Hugh Hudson's "Chariots of Fire" (1981) won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78% | 80% | Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey | Self | - | 2016 |
| 70% | 54% | My Life So Far | Producer | $616.3K | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | The Confessional | Producer | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | War of the Buttons | Producer | $4.7K | 1994 |
| 54% | 42% | Being Human | Producer | $1.3M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Without Warning: The James Brady Story | Executive Producer | - | 1991 |
| 100% | 76% | Meeting Venus | Producer | $940.1K | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia | Producer | - | 1990 |
| 68% | 79% | Memphis Belle | Producer | $25.5M | 1990 |
| 66% | 87% | The Mission | Producer | $17.2M | 1986 |
| 91% | 76% | Cal | Producer | - | 1984 |
| 93% | 91% | The Killing Fields | Producer | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winter Flight | Executive Producer | - | 1984 |
| 100% | 87% | Local Hero | Producer | - | 1983 |
| 83% | 80% | Chariots of Fire | Producer | - | 1981 |
| 70% | 56% | Foxes | Producer | - | 1980 |
| 90% | 89% | Midnight Express | Producer | - | 1978 |
| 60% | 83% | The Memory of Justice | Producer | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | James Dean, the First American Teen-ager | Producer | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Double-Headed Eagle | Producer | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Stardust |
Producer, Original Music |
- | 1974 |
| 71% | 78% | Mahler | Executive Producer | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | Swastika | Producer | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | That'll Be the Day | Producer | - | 1973 |
| 50% | 25% | The Pied Piper | Producer | - | 1972 |