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Ted Kotcheff Dies: ‘First Blood,’ ‘North Dallas Forty’ & ‘Weekend At Bernie’s’ Director & ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Producer Was 94
Ted Kotcheff, who directed 'First Blood,' 'Weekend at Bernie's and many other films and exec produced hundreds of 'Law & Order: SVU' episodes, has died at 94.
His big-screen directing career bloomed in 1974 with a pair of features: the Gregory Peck-Desi Arnaz Jr. western Billy Two Hat and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, starring Richard Dreyfuss, who was hot off George Lucas’ American Graffiti. Kotcheff then broke big, directing the memorable George Segal-Jane Fonda crime comedy Fun with Dick and Jane, which became one of the biggest box office hits of 1977. The dramedy about the behind-the-scenes lives, loves and pain of professional athletes rattled some cages with its hard-hitting depictions of alcohol and pain-drug abuse and solidified Kotcheff as a filmmaker to be reckoned with.
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