Cast & creator
Saul Zaentz
Best known for The South Bank Show, The Oscars, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Saul Zaentz (/ˈzænts/; February 28, 1921 – January 3, 2014) was an American film producer and former record company executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture three times and in 1996 was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Zaentz's film production career was marked by a dedication to the adaptation of the novel. A prolific reader, Zaentz typically did not produce original screenplays. His final production, Goya's Ghosts, was an exception, being an original story by Jean-Claude Carrièreand Miloš Forman. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saul Zaentz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
19
film credits
2
television credits
11
1953–2010 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (21)
Showing 21 of 21 credits
The South Bank Show
1978
The Oscars
Self
1953
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Captain on Shore (uncredited)
1975One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Producer
1975
Amadeus
Producer
1984
The English Patient
Producer
1996
The Lord of the Rings
Producer
1978
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Producer
1988
The Mosquito Coast
Executive Producer
1986
Goya's Ghosts
Producer
2006
Completely Cuckoo
Self
1997
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Producer
1991
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
Self
2009
The Making of 'Amadeus'
Self - Producer
2002
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
2002
Fog City Mavericks
Self
2007
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Self
2009
Emotional History: The Making of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'
Self
2006
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Self
1976
Forging Through the Darkness: The Ralph Bakshi Vision for 'The Lord of the Rings'
Thanks
2010
Three Warriors
Producer
1977