Oscar Award-winning producer of The Godfather, Million Dollar Baby, The Longest Yard and the Cannonball Run series; creator of the television shows Hogan's Heroes and Walker, Texas Ranger; the first producer to secure the rights to Atlas Shrugged from author Ayn Rand
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