Biography for
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Date of Birth

25 February 1941, London, England, UK

Birth Name

David Terence Puttnam

Spouse

Patricia Mary Jones

(1961 - present) 2 children

Trivia

Once acted as ace British photographer David Bailey's agent.

Whilst giving a guest lecture at Lincoln University, England, he accidentally activated the electronic stage curtain. This occurred when he mentioned light bulb inventor Thomas A. Edison. After researching Edison in his youth, Puttnam grew to dislike the man and suggested that the movement of the curtain was the ghost of Edison playing a trick on him.

Awarded CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1982

Created a Life Peer in 1997

Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1995.

Spend a turbulent year as head of Columbia Pictures in the late 1980s.

He is the Chancellor of the Open University, the largest distance learning institution in the world.

Made Fellow of BAFTA in 2006.

His biography was published in 1989, titled "Fast Fade" (by Andrew Yule), which chronicles his rise to the head of Columbia Pictures and his subsequent fall.

He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.

Was chancellor of the University of Sunderland for many years.

Father of Sacha Puttnam.

Personal Quotes

I'm not afraid to fail, providing I fail honorably. The only thing I don't want is to end up being an irrelevant 70-year-old egomaniac.

Nothing good will happen while there are still cinemas that are shit heaps and critics who only like popular films when they are thirty years old. 1975 quote