Monday, September 10, 2012

Jake Eberts; Dead at 71

Jake Eberts died at the age of seventy-one in Montreal, after complications from eye cancer.

He is remembered as an "extrordinary man" and "a real gentleman" by friends and former coworkers.

Sadly, many whilst familiar with his works, may not even have known his name.

Several of the films he worked on were Oscar winners and crowd favorites.

Eberts was the producer and or executive producer for films like Chariots of Fire, Ghandi, Dances With Wolves, Driving Miss Daisy, Chicken Run, A River Runs Through It, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and The Name of The Rose.

Nature documentaries were also something he believed in, and he worked heavily to get March of The Penguins made.

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