Ned tanen biography

American film studio executive

Ned Stone Tanen (c. September 20, 1931 – January 5, 2009) was an American film studio executive. The films he produced were some of the most popular films of the 1970s and 1980s, including the key Brat Pack films The Breakfast Club and St.

Elmo's Fire, as well as Smokey and the Bandit, American Graffiti, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Deer Hunter, Crocodile Dundee, Top Gun, Animal House, and many others.

History

Tanen was born to a Jewish family^[1] in Los Angeles and served in the United States Air Force after graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ned tanen biography

Following his military service, he got a job in 1954 in the MCA mailroom. He became an agent there in the late 1950s and in the early 1960s he was packaging TV shows for MCA/Universal after MCA acquired Universal Pictures.^[2] He helped form the Uni Records label at MCA in 1967.

Artists recording on the Uni label included Neil Di