Jake EbertsAKA:
John David Eberts
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Canadian Birthdate:
07/10/1941 Birthplace:
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biography
A former Wall Street investor, the Montreal-born Eberts began his career in features in the early 1970s arranging financing. After relocating to London, England, where he eventually rose to managing director of Oppenheimer & Co., Ltd., he founded Goldcrest Films, a successful independent production company involved with such high profile films as Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning "Gandhi" (1982), Bill Forsyth's "Local Hero" (1983) and Roland Joffe's "The Killing Fields" (1984). Eberts served as president and CEO of Goldcrest until 1983 when he joined Embassy Pictures. In 1985, he founded
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milestones
Year
Milestone
Worked on Wall Street
Named managing director of Oppenheimer & Co, Ltd in London
Founded and served as president and CEO of London-based Goldcrest film company
Invested his own money in "Zulu Dawn" (1979); took him almost a decade to extract himself from a $750,000 debt
1984
Joined Hollywood film company, Embassy Communications International as an executive
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