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The Ladd Company was an American film production company founded by Alan Ladd Jr., Jay Kanter, and Gareth Wigan in 1979. In 1979, the three founders were executives with 20th Century Fox; Ladd was the president.
Alan Walbridge Ladd Jr. (October 22, 1937 – March 2, 2022) was an American film industry executive and producer. He was president of 20th Century Fox from 1976 to 1979, during which he approved the production of Star Wars , on his confidence in George Lucas , which proved well-founded.
Background: The Ladd Company was formed in 1979 by Alan Ladd Jr., Jay Kanter, and Gareth Wigan. Ladd was, prior to the studio's founding, the president of 20th Century Fox, and Kanter and Wigan were executives. As the alleged results of quarreling between Ladd and the studio higher-ups, the trio...
2 Mac 2022 · That was the year that Ladd and the two senior production executives under him — Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan — left Fox and formed the Ladd Co., an independent production company...
2 Mac 2022 · He formed The Ladd Co., based at Warner Bros., along with Fox associates Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan.
In 1979, Ladd Jr. formed his own production company, The Ladd Company, with Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan, and they were prominently involved in many successful and acclaimed films throughout the first half of the 1980s, including Kagemusha, Body Heat, Blade Runner, Night Shift, The Right Stuff, Once Upon a Time in America, Police Academy, and ...
The Ladd Company's co-founder Jay Kanter died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, on August 6, 2024, at the age of 97. The Ladd Company was an American film production company founded by Alan Ladd Jr., Jay Kanter, and Gareth Wigan in 1979.
