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Jerome Hellman Dies: Oscar-Winning Producer Of ‘Midnight Cowboy,’ ‘Coming Home’ Was 92

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Jerome Hellman, the producer of landmark films such as Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home has died. The Oscar winner’s wife, Elizabeth Empleton Hellman, confirmed Hellman’s May 26 passing saying simply, “we will miss him terribly.” He was 92.Hellman’s films helped define the “New Hollywood” of the 1970s.

He tended to work repeatedly with a circle of top-notch collaborators and the films Hellman produced came from iconic directors such as John Schlesinger, Hal Ashby, George Roy Hill, Irvin Kershner and Peter Weir.

That Hellman would win Best Picture for Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy in 1970 was, at the very least, improbable. The film was based on a little-known novel.

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