Samuel
Goldwyn Jr. the son of actress Frances Howard and the Hollywood Golden Age
movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn, a founder of Paramount Pictures died Friday in Los
Angeles at Cedar-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles. He was 88.
The New
York Times reported that Goldwyn’s son John said he died of congestive
heart failure.
The
courtly and soft-spoken scion was known for shepherding independent and foreign
films and got his start in documentary filmmaking, in contrast to his brash
father, who made his way from a youth of poverty in Poland to a partner in MGM.
The
founder of the Samuel Goldwyn Company earned an Emmy and a Best Picture Oscar
nom during a producing career that spanned 65 years through 2013’sThe Secret
Life Of Walter Mitty; his father producer the original in 1947.
He was
married twice, to writer Peggy Elliott, with whom he had two children, and to
actress Jennifer Howard, with whom he had four. He is survived by three sons,
producer John; actor Tony and Peter, senior VP of Samuel Goldwyn Films; and
three daughters Catherine, Frances and Elizabeth; and nine grandchildren.
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