At Fox, he oversaw "Romancing the Stone" and "Revenge of the Nerds" (both 1984) while at Paramount he supervised such box-office hits as "The Untouchables" and "Fatal Attraction" (both 1987), and as an independent producer, David Madden has been behind the successful thriller "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1992), as well as lesser comedies such as "Operation Dumbo Drop" (1995) and "The Associate" (1996).

A graduate of Harvard, with a masters from UCLA, Madden began his Hollywood career as a story analyst for 20th Century-Fox in 1978. He rose through the ranks to executive story editor and