Bernard Williams (producer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British film producer
Date of Birth: 10-May-1942
Date of Death: 04-Jan-2015
Profession: film producer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Bernard Williams (producer)
- Bernard Telvin Williams (10 May 1942 – 4 January 2015) was a British film producer.
- Williams' credits included producer on two movies with Stanley Kubrick, as well as six films for director Frank Oz.Williams was born in London.
- He began his career in filmmaking by working inside the mailroom of Associated British Pictures when he was a teenager.
- He later married Valerie Norman Dannels, the daughter of the film director Leslie Norman, with whom he had three children, Dana, Vanessa and Howard.
- He and his family moved from the United Kingdom to Los Angeles, California, in 1981 to pursue his production career.
- Williams' marriage to Valerie Norman Dannels ended in divorce.Williams served as the second and third director for two films in the early 1960s: the science fiction film, The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), and Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) directed by Otto Preminger.
- Williams also worked as a production manager for the British television series, The Prisoner (1967–68), a project associated with actor Patrick McGoohan.
- Additionally, he served as a production manager for the film, Battle of Britain (1969), which was directed by Guy Hamilton.Williams was an associate producer on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Barry Lyndon (1975).
- He produced or associate produced six films with director Frank Oz, beginning with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988).
- His other collaborations with Oz were What About Bob? (1991), Housesitter (1992), The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), Bowfinger (1999), and The Score (2001).Williams also produced The Big Sleep (1978), a remake of the 1946 film; Flash Gordon (1980); Ragtime (1981); The Bounty (1984), starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins; Manhunter, (1986) which was directed by Michael Mann; and Daredevil (2003), a superhero film starring Ben Affleck.
- With Rosilyn Heller, Williams co-produced Who's That Girl (1987), starring Madonna.His additional production credits included The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977); So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993); and Blood and Wine (1996).
- His last film was Charlotte's Web (2006).Bernard Williams died from stomach cancer in Burbank, California, on 4 January 2015, at the age of 72.
- He was survived by his former wife and his three children.
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