David Valdes (producer)

David Valdes is an American Academy Award nominated film producer more notable in the western genre and collaborating with Clint Eastwood.

Career

Valdes first started out his career as a production manager and unit director for films like Tightrope, (which he also had a minor role in), The Outsiders and Oh, God! Book II.

He became good friends with Eastwood after Tightrope and soon Valdes produced his first movie for Eastwood in 1985's Pale Rider. He went on to produce other Eastwood classics like The Dead Pool, Pink Cadillac, White Hunter Black Heart and Unforgiven.

Valdes received his first Oscar nomination for The Green Mile along with the film's director Frank Darabont.^[1]

Valdes has since been producing more western films, as well as some science ficion films such as The Time Machine, Babylon A.D., and I Am Number Four.^[2]

Filmography

1985: Pale Rider

1986: Ratboy

1987: Gardens of Stone

1987: Like Father Like Son

1988: Bird

1988: The Dead Pool

1989: Pink Cadillac

1990: White Hunter Black Heart

1990: The Rookie

1992: Unforgiven

1993: In the Line of Fire

1993: A Perfect World

1997: Turbulence

1999: The Green Mile

2002: The Time Machine

2003: Open Range

2007: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2008: Babylon A.D.

2010: The Book of Eli

2011: I Am Number Four

References

1. ^ http://thegreenmile.warnerbros.com/cmp/filmmakers-fr.html
2. ^ http://www.collider.com/2010/04/01/director-dj-carusos-i-am-number-four-gets-a-2182011-release-date/

External Links

• David Valdes at the Internet Movie Database

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