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Producer of ‘The Getaway’ and ‘The Thing, David Foster,’ Dies at 90

Famous filmmaker David Foster, who teamed up with Steve McQueen on “The Getaway” and shepherded Robert Altman’s “McCabe and Mrs. Mill operator,” passed on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 90.
Cultivate began in the business as a marketing expert speaking to McQueen alongside Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Shirley MacLaine, Andy Williams, and Sonny and Cher.
He left attention and banded together with Mitchell Brower, where their first generation was acclaimed 1971 Western “McCabe and Mrs. Mill operator.” Warren Beatty and Julie Christie featured, with Christie netting an Oscar nom.
In 1972, he created Sam Peckinpah’s “The Getaway” as a team with McQueen and Ali McGraw. It got one of Peckinpah’s most monetarily fruitful movies.
Cultivate collaborated with “The Graduate” maker Larry Turman in 1974. The Turman Foster Company began with “The Drowning Pool,” featuring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and proceeded with “Legends,” John Carpenter’s “The Thing,” “Behaving irrationally,” 1994’s reboot of “The Getaway” and “The River Wild.”
Cultivate kept delivering into the 2000s with films including “The Mask of Zorro,” “Blow-back” and the 2011 redo of “The Thing.” He likewise created the 2005 change of “The Fog,” “Hart’s War,” just as “Short out” and “Short out 2.”
An ardent aficionado of the USC Trojans and the Apple Pan, he was an eager guide to numerous in the business.
Conceived in the Bronx, N.Y., Foster moved to La Jolla and afterward Los Angeles with his family. He served in the Korean War and turned into the head speech specialist for General “Iron Mike” Daniels in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
He is made due by his significant other of 60 years, Jackie Pattiz, children Gary, a maker; Greg, previous Imax CEO; and Tim, little girl parents in law Lisa and Marci and grandkids Daryn, Drew, Kayla, Jackson, and Lucas.
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