James Jacks
Film producer
1947 – 2014
Who was James Jacks?
James "Jim" Jacks was an American film producer of several blockbuster films.
Jacks grew up in a military family. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and from Cornell University with an MBA. He was working as a Wall Street financial analyst when he decided to be a screenwriter. Unsuccessful, he became head of production at Circle Films in the early- to mid-1980s and then senior vice-president of production at Universal Studios from the late-1980s into the early-1990s. In 1992, he became an independent producer with Alphaville Films, which he co-founded with Sean Daniel. He left Alphaville Films in 2004.
Jacks died on January 20, 2014 of a heart attack at his Los Angeles home at the age of 66.
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- Born
- Dec 29, 1947
United States of America - Also known as
- Jim Jacks
- Jim
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 20, 2014
Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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