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- Dies: ‘The Wire’ Actor & Frequent Spike Lee Collaborator Was 71 Gottlieb had worked with Hollywood scion Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
- to revive The Samuel Goldwyn Company in 1978 and became its president and COO in 1988.
- After that company went through a pair of 1990s acquisitions by Orion Pictures and then MGM, Samuel Goldwyn Films was launched in 2000, with Gottlieb at the helm.
- Specializing in indie and foreign pics, the Culver City-based company went on to produce and/or distribute hundreds of films ranging from The Big Blue and Me Without You to last year’s The Count of Monte Cristo and this year’s Venice-premiering The Last Viking.
