Robert Chartoff, Oscar-Winning Producer Of ‘Rocky,’ ‘Raging Bull’ Dead At 81
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Robert Chartoff, a Oscar-winning film writer behind a fighting classics “Rocky” and “Raging Bull,” died Wednesday, associates said. He was 81.
Chartoff died during his home in Santa Monica, California, Lynn Hendee, a boss of his company, Chartoff Productions. He had been pang from pancreatic cancer.
Born in Depression-era New York City, Chartoff had been a film writer for scarcely a decade when he found his career-defining strike in 1976’s “Rocky,” a small-budget film starring and created by Sylvester Stallone that became a blockbuster and won 3 Academy Awards including best picture.
Chartoff and his partner Irwin Winkler would go on to furnish all 7 cinema in a “Rocky” series, including a stirring “Creed,” that is in post-production and due for recover after this year.
He kept operative into his late 70s and 80s, his new credits including 2013’s “Ender’s Game” with Harrison Ford and 2014’s “The Gambler” with Mark Wahlberg.
He also constructed a different, darker take on fighting in a Martin Scorcese-directed “Raging Bull” in 1980.
His other credits enclosed 1983’s “The Right Stuff,” that won 4 Oscars, and 1969’s “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” a cult strike starring Jane Fonda.
He had 5 children with 3 opposite wives, and is survived by his stream mother jenny Weyman.
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