Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub, the box office hits as “The Karate Kid” and “Ocean’s Eleven” brought to the big screen, is dead.
According to his spokeswoman Michelle Bega he died Monday at a hospital in Santa Barbara, California. How Bega told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Weintraub suffered a cardiac arrest. He was 77 years old.
His sudden death triggered in Hollywood dismay and sadness from. “Today is our friend died,” actor George Clooney said in a release that was published by the “Hollywood Reporter”. “He was an absolute original. I loved him and I will really miss him, “quoted the trade publication of a notice of Brad Pitt. With two actors Weintraub turned the “Ocean’s” trilogy. “He was a giant in Hollywood and his heart was so big that it lit up the city”, Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote on Twitter.
“So sad about the loss of Jerry Weintraub,” tweeted the actor Ralph Macchio (53), who became known in the 80s as a trilogy Weintraubs “The Karate Kid”. “So glad I was that kid,” Macchio wrote in the short message service.
Weintraub recently worked on a new “Tarzan” film version with Alexander Skarsgård and Christoph Waltz, which is in 2016 expected to be released. In his long career, Weintraub produced dozens of films, from “Nashville” (1975) and “Diner” (1982) to “Liberace – Too much of a good thing is wonderful” (2013). Before his success in the film industry, he worked as a music producer and concert promoter and has worked with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Elvis Presley and John Denver.
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