Jake Eberts

Personal Info

Know For

Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-07-10 (71 years old)

Deathday

2012-09-06

Place of Birth

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jake Eberts

Biography

Jake Eberts (July 10, 1941 – September 6, 2012) was a Canadian film producer, executive and financier. He was known for risk-taking and producing a consistently high caliber of movies including such Academy Award-winning titles as Chariots of Fire (1981, uncredited), Gandhi (1982), Dances with Wolves (1990), and the direct-to video Hero of the Rails (1996) and the successful animated feature Chicken Run (2000). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jake Eberts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

1986

The Name of the Rose

as Executive Producer

1992

A River Runs Through It

as Executive Producer

1981

Escape from New York

as Executive Producer

2004

Two Brothers

as Producer

1994

No Escape

as Executive Producer

2003

Open Range

as Producer

1996

James and the Giant Peach

as Executive Producer

2000

Chicken Run

as Executive Producer

1981

Chariots of Fire

as Executive Producer

1987

Hope and Glory

as Executive Producer

1993

1982

The Plague Dogs

as Executive Producer

1989

Last Exit to Brooklyn

as Associate Producer

1991

Paul McCartney's Get Back

as Executive Producer

1990

The Nutcracker Prince

as Executive Producer

1978

Watership Down

as Executive Producer

2010

Oceans

as Executive Producer

2010

The Illusionist

as Executive Producer

2013

Mysteries of the Unseen World

as Executive Producer

1991

Black Robe

as Executive Producer

1999

Grey Owl

as Producer

1990

Dances with Wolves

as Executive Producer

1989

Driving Miss Daisy

as Co-Executive Producer

2015

A Walk in the Woods

as Executive Producer

2015

A Walk in the Woods

as In Memory Of

2007

2013

Jerusalem

as Executive Producer

1984

The Killing Fields

as Executive Producer

2015

The Little Prince

as In Memory Of

1992

City of Joy

as Producer

2003

Prisoner of Paradise

as Executive Producer

2010

The Way Back

as Executive Producer

1993

The Thief and the Cobbler

as Executive Producer

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