Freddie Fields

Born to a Jewish family,[2] he was the brother of band leader Shep Fields. Fields was a partner in the First Artists Company with Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Sidney Poitier, and Barbra Streisand.[1] While First Artist only lasted for five years, it was unique in that it owned the films it produced, such as The Getaway (1972).[3] Fields and partner David Begelman founded the international talent agency Creative Management Associates (CMA).[1][3] At CMA, Fields and Begelman pioneered the movie "package", where the talent agency put their stars, directors and writers together on a single project.[4] CMA developed numerous agents including Sue Mengers, Mike Medavoy, Sam Cohn, and Jeff Berg (who became president in 1979).[3] While at CMA, he was involved with numerous blockbuster films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Graffiti and Star Wars. CMA was instrumental in the development of such stars as Jack Carter, Judy Garland, Woody Allen, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Redford, Peter Sellers, Steve McQueen, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Burt Bacharach, Neil Young, and into the 1980s promoted the likes of Richard Gere and Mel Gibson. He played a key role in the merger of CMA with the International Famous Agency to form International Creative Management (ICM).[1] He later served as president of MGM and United Artists.[1]

Fields was married four times. He was survived by his wife, former Miss Universe 1964, Corinna Tsopei, and by three children by his former wife, actress Polly Bergen.[5][6] He also was married to actress Edith Fellows, who died June 26, 2011. Kathy Fields is their child.[7]

All films, he was producer unless otherwise noted.

• Freddie Fields on IMDb 
• Freddie Fields at AllMovie
• Freddie Fields at the TCM Movie Database
• Freddie Fields at Find a Grave