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Canadian director Ted Kotcheff, known for First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's, dead at 94
Canadian Ted Kotcheff, whose six-decade career as film and television director included helming the first instalments of two ...
Ted Kotcheff Dies: ‘First Blood,’ ‘North Dallas Forty’ & ‘Weekend At Bernie’s’ Director & ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Producer Was 94
Ted Kotcheff, who directed 'First Blood,' 'Weekend at Bernie's and many other films and exec produced hundreds of 'Law & ...
Ted Kotcheff, Director of ‘First Blood’ and ‘Weekend at Bernie’s,’ Dies at 94
The Canadian filmmaker also helmed 'North Dallas Forty,' 'The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz' and 'Wake in Fright' and exec ...
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Ted Kotcheff, Director of ‘First Blood’ and ‘Weekend at Bernie’s,’ Dies at 94
“The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the axis on which my career and, in many ways, my life, has rotated,” Kotcheff wrote in his memoir. In the late 1990s, Wolf, a fan of North Dallas Forty ...
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Ted Kotcheff, Director of ‘First Blood’ and ‘Weekend at Bernie’s,’ Dies at 94
The Toronto native, who started his admired 60-year career directing for live television, also helmed the social satire Fun With Dick and Jane (1977), starring George Segal and Jane Fonda; the Nick ...