Veteran Hollywood producer David Foster died Monday.
He was 90 years old.Foster’s career spanned 60 years and he produced such films as McCabe and Mrs.
Miller, The Getaway, and John Carpenters’ The Thing.
Foster began his career as a publicist representing such talent as Steve McQueen, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Shirley McClain, Andy Williams, James Coburn, Sonny and Cher and many others.
He worked first at Rogers and Cowan, and then as a partner at Allan, Foster Ingersoll and Weber from 1960 to 1968.In 1968, at the urging of many of his clients, he became a film producer.
He partnered with Mitchell Brower and right out the gate they produced Robert Altman’s classic McCabe And Mrs.
Miller, starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie.
He partnered with his close friend, Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw to produce the Sam Peckinpah-directed hit The Getaway.In 1974, he formed a company with The Graduate producer Larry Turman.
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