Thom Mount

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Thom Mount
Born (1948-05-26) 26 May 1948 (age 75)
Occupation Studio Executive

Thomas Henderson Mount (born 26 May 1948) is an American film producer, who was formerly the President of Universal Pictures. [1] [2]

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Born in Durham, North Carolina, he studied art at Bard College where he received a BA. He received an MFA in Film and Video at the California Institute of the Arts.

Starting as assistant to Executive VP Ned Tanen in 1972 Mount rose quickly through the MCA/Universal ranks to become Universal President in 1975 through early 1985. There he developed, supervise, financed and distributed over 200 features.

After leaving Universal in late 1984, [3] Mount founded his own company, which produced acclaimed films like Bull Durham , Tequila Sunrise , Frantic , Natural Born Killers , Can't Buy Me Love , The Indian Runner , Night Falls on Manhattan , and Death and the Maiden , which he first produced on stage in London's West End and on Broadway. [4] Although The Mount Company had outgoing agreements with various film studios like Warner Bros., Tri-Star Pictures, The Walt Disney Studios and Lorimar Motion Pictures, on June 11, 1986, The Mount Company received a three-year, two-picture-a-year, non-exclusive deal with Columbia Pictures, in order that Mount would develop projects for the studio. [5]

Mount is a co-founder of the Los Angeles Film School, two-term president of the Producers Guild of America, [6] and has been a consultant for RKO Pictures.

He has been an active Academy member since 1977.

Frequently rumored to be the model for Robert Altman's The Player , Mount said "Not me. I've never murdered a screenwriter". [7]

Filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

YearFilmCredit
1985 My Man Adam Executive producer
1986 Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling Supervising producer
Pirates Executive producer
1987 Can't Buy Me Love
1988 Frantic
Bull Durham
Stealing Home
Tequila Sunrise
1990 Frankenstein Unbound Executive producer
1991 The Indian Runner Executive producer
1994 Natural Born Killers Executive producer
Death and the Maiden
1996 Night Falls on Manhattan
2007 Are We Done Yet? Supervising producer
Have Dreams, Will TravelExecutive producer
2008 Bathory Executive producer
2009 Chéri Executive producer
In Her Skin Executive producer
TBA
Good Luck with That
Thanks
YearFilmRole
1986 Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling Special thanks
1991 My Own Private Idaho
2019Animal Among UsVery special thanks

Television

YearTitleCreditNotes
1988 Open Admissions Television film
1991 Son of the Morning Star Television film
1999The Mark Twain Prize: Richard PryorCo-producerTelevision special

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