Actor

David Puttnam

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Movies: 59Series: 5Crew credits: 42

TMDB ID: 8967

IMDb ID: nm0701298

Known for: Production

Born: February 25, 1941

Age: 84

Place of birth: London, England, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1971 - 2025

Years active: 55

Average TMDB rating: 6.47

Wikidata: Q335507

Also known as

David Terence Puttnam • Baron Puttnam

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Producer (26)Executive Producer (15)Thanks (1)

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Biography

David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA (born 25 February 1941) is a British-Irish film producer, educator, environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords. His productions include Chariots of Fire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Midnight Express and Memphis Belle. In 1982, he received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, and in 2006 he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Puttnam sat on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he was not principally a politician. In 2019 he was appointed chair to the select committee on democracy and digital technologies. The committee published its findings in its Digital Technology & the Resurrection of Trust report in June 2020.