Former dry goods wholesaler/retailer and lawyer who entered the entertainment industry as legal counsel to Famous Artists Corporation in the early 1950s. Feldman held several executive positions in both business and production capacities with CBS, 20th Century Fox and Seven Arts as well as heading the First Artists production company. As an independent producer he made films by Francis Ford Coppola ("You're a Big Boy Now" 1967), Sam Peckinpah ("The Wild Bunch" 1969 and "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" 1970) and John Badham ("Blue Thunder" 1983).