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David Valdes

{{short description|American film producer (born 1950)}}

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David Valdes (born August 12, 1950, in Los Angeles) is an American film producer known for working in the western genre and collaborating with Clint Eastwood. His first production experience was as a guest on a film called Diary of a Mad Housewife, which was shot in his hometown in 1969.

Career

Valdes first started out his career as an assistant director for films like Oh, God! Book II, The Outsiders and Tightrope, (which he also had a minor role in).

He became good friends with Eastwood after Tightrope and soon Valdes was promoted to associate producer/assistant director on 1985's Pale Rider. He went on as producer and production manager on other Eastwood films like The Dead Pool, Bird, Pink Cadillac, White Hunter Black Heart and Unforgiven.

Valdes received his first Oscar nomination for The Green Mile along with the film's director-producer-screenwriter Frank Darabont.{{Cite web |url=http://thegreenmile.warnerbros.com/cmp/filmmakers-fr.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204233302/http://thegreenmile.warnerbros.com/cmp/filmmakers-fr.html |archive-date=2010-12-04 |url-status=dead }}

Valdes has since been producing more western films, as well as some science fiction films such as The Time Machine, Babylon A.D., and I Am Number Four.{{cite web |url=http://www.collider.com/2010/04/01/director-dj-carusos-i-am-number-four-gets-a-2182011-release-date/ |title=Director D.J. Caruso's I AM NUMBER FOUR Gets a 2/18/2011 Release Date - Collider.com |website=www.collider.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407060620/http://www.collider.com/2010/04/01/director-dj-carusos-i-am-number-four-gets-a-2182011-release-date |archive-date=2010-04-07}}

Filmography

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External links

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Category:1950 births

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Category:20th-century American businesspeople

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Category:American people of Portuguese descent

Category:Film producers from Los Angeles

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