Freddie Fields, Hollywood Producer, Dies at 84

The Associated Press reports Freddie Fields, Hollywood agent, producer and studio executive who represented Mel Gibson, Richard Gere and others, died from lung cancer in his Beverly Hills Home on Tuesday, December 11.  He was 84 years old.

Fields founded the international talent agency Creative Management Associates and served as president of two major film studios, MGM and United Artists.  The list of films he produced include Glory, which garnered Denzel Washington's his first Oscar; Crimes of the Heart, with Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek; American Gigolo, which helped introduce Richard Gere to the Hollywood scene; plus Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Fever Pitch; and executive producer / partner of TV's "The Montel Williams Show."

Before forming Creative Management Associates, now known as International Creative Management, Fields was a partner in the First Artists Company with Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Sidney Poitier and Barbra Streisand.  At ICM, Fields' talent roster included Newman, Streisand, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Woody Allen, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, McQueen and directors Arthur Penn, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Sidney Pollack, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Paul Mazursky.

He is survived by his second wife, actress and former Miss Universe Corinna Tsopei, and three children.