I always enjoyed his company. When MCA divested itself of the agency business, he left to form his own management firm repping such clients as Garland, Henry Fonda and Newman. Freddie Lynn Fields, age 77 died Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at his residence in Columbus. A celebration of Mr. Fields life will be held Saturday September 21, 2019 at 12:00 noon at his residence (518 College Street). After a stint in the Coast Guard, he joined the Abbe Greshler agency in 1943; there he worked with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. In 1974 he and Begelman sold CMA to Marvin Josephson’s International Famous Agency. He was 84. “First Artists was the first important artist-based financing company,” Berg said.
Freddie Fields, Producer: Glory. Burial will be at Double Branch Cemetery in Pine Hill. “He was one of the first to understand the value of the international market, and it was a publicly traded company.”The idea was for the talent to work within a specific budget fronted by the distributor and then retain a sizeable portion of the profits as well as the film’s negative. Read Next: ‘Apocalypse ’45’ Review: A Momentous Documentary Presents Never-Before-Seen Footage of the Grisly End of World War II
The merger created the company that is now ICM, but soon thereafter, Fields left his job as president of the agency for an indie production deal at Paramount Pictures. “We lived through a very exciting time together. He was a retired self-employed entrepreneur.Taylor, Mary Virginia, John Henry, Presley, Denver, and Monroe FieldsExpress your condolences with flowers sent to Freddie's familyShare your thoughts and memories with family and friends of Freddie He was born Oct. 26, 1955, in Orangeburg, the son of the late Freddie Walter Fields Sr. and the late Estelle Smoak Fields Young Gleaton. Over the 12 years of the agency’s existence, they included thesps Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Liza Minnelli and Natalie Wood and young directors like Lucas, Arthur Penn, Mel Brooks, Francis Ford Coppola and Spielberg. Obituary for Randy Wayne Fields from FH website Randy Wayne Fields, 61, of Swansea, died Thursday, June 5, 2014. He was a lot of fun, a gentle guy. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. He also produced “American Anthem,” “Poltergeist 2” and “Millennium.” By the end of the 1980s, Fields moved to television, where he was executive producer of “Naked Hollywood” and “The Montel Williams Show.” Survivors include his wife of 26 years, Corinna, who was Miss Greece and the winner of the Miss Universe contest; two daughters and a son; three grandchildren; four stepchildren and one step-grandchild.Services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Pierce Brothers in Westwood, Calif.Donations may be made to SHARE, P.O. Freddie Fields Obituary Remember Freddie Fields. An obituary is not available at this time for Freddie Fields. “Fred” Fields, 80, of Beaver Dam, passed away on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, with his family by his side. A celebration of Mr. Fields life will be held Saturday September 21, 2019 at 12:00 noon at his residence (518 College Street). “I didn’t want to devote my life to the agency business,” Fields told Variety’s VLife magazine in 2003. He also had an eye for recruiting top agents,” said Jeff Berg, president of The roster of clients at CMA, the precursor to ICM, was a virtual who’s who in entertainment of its era. In a rarity at the time, Fields’ First Artists production company owned the films it produced. It’s the end of an era,” Streisand said.Born in Ferndale, N.Y., Fields was the son of a Catskills resort owner. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m., Monday, June 9, 2014 at Culler-McAlhany Funeral Home in North. Box 1342, Beverly Hills, CA 90213.
He quit school at age 17, moving to Miami, where he worked as a bellhop. Freddie Fields, the powerful and charming talent manager and agent who, along with David Begelman, founded the powerful Creative Management Associates and later became a studio exec and producer, died Tuesday of lung cancer at his home in Beverly Hills. Begelman went on to head Columbia Pictures until he was toppled by the infamous check-forging scandal. Fields, Begelman and their other agents (who at various times included Berg, “He was a real powerhouse agent — he changed the business when he came along.
He was a producer, known for Glory (1989), Victory (1981) and Fever Pitch (1985). Born to a Jewish family, he was the brother of band leader Shep Fields. Using the deal savvy he learned at MCA, Fields engineered the creation of First Artists with several prominent clients including Streisand, Steve McQueen, Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman and Dustin Hoffman.
Freddie Fields (July 12, 1923 – December 11, 2007), born Fred Feldman, was an American theatrical agent and film producer. He had close relationships with talent, and he was able to make things happen. HOLLYWOOD - Freddie Fields, a one-time vaudeville booker who became a high-flying Hollywood talent agent for such stars as Judy Garland, Henry Fonda, Steve McQueen, and Barbra Streisand and who later headed production at MGM and United Artists studios, has died. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC.
Other credits included “Lipstick,” “Wholly Moses!” and “Victory.” In the early ’80s Fields was recruited by Begelman, then running MGM/UA, for the top production slot at MGM and then for both MGM and UA. He was wooed away by MCA in 1946, bringing Lewis and Martin with him, and rose through the ranks to become head of its TV department. August 8, 1923 - September 29, 2010 Chillum, Maryland Set a Reminder for the Anniversary of Freddie's Passing. Freddie Fields was born on July 23, 1923 in Ferndale, New York, USA as Fred Feldman.
Freddie Lynn Fields, age 77 died Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at his residence in Columbus. Mr. Fields …
If he hadn’t left the agency business, there probably wouldn’t have been a CAA,” Medavoy said.
He was a very creative thinker. Freddie A. Almost everyone who worked for him ended up running a studio. Together with Ted Ashley and Lew Wasserman of MCA, Fields and Begelman were perhaps Hollywood’s first super-agents. He packaged such vaudevillian and radio talents as Phil Silvers, George Burns and Gracie Allen and Jackie Gleason for television.