Puttnam

Puttnam
(1941– )
an English film producer who played a major part in the success of the British film industry in the 1980s. His films include Midnight Express (1978), Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields. In 1986–8 he was head of the US film company Columbia Pictures. He was made a life peer in 1997.

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