Overview
- He died Monday at his Los Angeles home at age 86, his wife Pattikay Gottlieb told The Hollywood Reporter.
- Gottlieb helped revive the Samuel Goldwyn enterprise in 1978 and was named president and COO in 1988 before steering Samuel Goldwyn Films through decades of indie and international releases.
- His producing credits include Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and the 2013 remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, alongside titles he shepherded such as Mystic Pizza, Super Size Me and The Squid and the Whale.
- A Holocaust survivor born in Poland in 1939, he spent years in Ukrainian labor camps and later spoke publicly about his experience, including appearances for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman called him “a gentleman of the old school” who proved it was possible to build a Hollywood career without sacrificing honesty, and survivors include his two daughters and two grandchildren.