Ted Field
Ted Field | |
|---|---|
| Born | Frederick Woodruff Field 1953 (age 70–71) |
| Education | high school graduate, seven years of college |
| Spouse | divorced |
| Parent(s) | Marshall Field IV and Katherine Woodruff |
Frederick Woodruff "Ted" Field (born 1953) is an American media mogul and entrepreneur and film producer.
Biography
Field was born in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, the son of Katherine Woodruff Fanning, an editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and Marshall Field IV, who owned the Chicago Sun-Times.[1] He is an heir to the Field family fortune. At $1.2 billion, Field is #236 on the Forbes list of the 400 richest people.[2]
Is the father of Emily Tweed-Field, daughter of Tracy Tweed.
Field well known by motor racing enthusiasts for being the boss of Interscope Racing, a successful team that fielded cars in many different categories including Indy, CanAm, Sportscars and even F1. Danny Ongais was the main pilot of the team, Ted Field himself occasionally took the wheel in some occasions including at 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Interscope Racing started off entering Ongais in Formula 5000 in 1975, graduating to USAC racing and the Indianapolis 500 in Parnelli chassis. Field also funded Ongais to make occasional Formula One outings in a Penske. Field also backed the construction in 1980 of an Interscope chassis designed by Roman Slobodinskij for the Indianapolis 500. This was intended to take a turbocharged six-cylinder Porsche engine (similar to the one Ongais and Field were using in their Porsche 935) but a dispute with USAC over turbo boost meant the program was abandoned.
Field then founded Interscope Communications in 1982, which produced more than 50 major films. In 1990, he co-founded Interscope Records. After abruptly leaving Interscope in January 2001, he formed ARTISTdirect Records with the backing of BMG. Ted Field is currently Chairman and CEO of Radar Pictures.
He is currently living in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
Filmography (producer)
- Revenge of the Nerds (1984) (producer)
- Turk 182! (1985) (producer)
- Three Men and a Baby (1987) (producer)
- Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) (producer)
- Outrageous Fortune (1987) (producer)
- Critical Condition (1987) (producer)
- Cocktail (1988) (producer)
- The Seventh Sign (1988) (producer)
- An Innocent Man (1989) (producer)
- Renegades (1989) (executive producer)
- Collision Course (1989) (producer)
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) (executive producer)
- 3 Men and a Little Lady (1990) (producer)
- Arachnophobia (1990) (co-executive producer)
- Bird on a Wire (1990) (executive producer)
- Paradise (1991) (executive producer)
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) (executive producer)
- Class Action (1991) (producer)
- Out on a Limb (1992) (executive producer)
- The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992) (executive producer)
- Jersey Girl (1992) (executive producer)
- FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) (executive producer)
- The Cutting Edge (1992) (producer)
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) (executive producer)
- Imaginary Crimes (1994) (executive producer)
- Terminal Velocity (1994) (executive producer)
- Jumanji (1995) (executive producer)
- Two Much (1995) (executive producer)
- Separate Lives (1995) (executive producer)
- The Tie That Binds (1995) (executive producer)
- Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) (executive producer)
- Roommates (1995) (producer)
- Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) (producer)
- The Associate (1996) (executive producer)
- Kazaam (1996) (executive producer)
- The Arrival (1996) (executive producer)
- Boys (1996) (executive producer)
- Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) (executive producer)
- Gridlock'd (1997) (executive producer)
- What Dreams May Come (1998) (executive producer)
- Very Bad Things (1998) (executive producer)
- The Proposition (1998) (producer)
- Runaway Bride (1999) (producer)
- Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) (executive producer)
- Pitch Black (2000) (executive producer)
- They (2002) (executive producer)
- The Last Samurai (2003) (executive producer)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) (executive producer)
- Le Divorce (2003) (executive producer)
- How to Deal (2003) (executive producer)
- The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) (executive producer)
- The Amityville Horror (2005) (executive producer)
- Zathura (2005) (executive producer)
- Waist Deep (2006) (executive producer)
- The Heartbreak Kid (2007) (producer)
- Swing Vote (2008) (executive producer)
- All About Steve (2009) (executive producer)
- Horseman (2009) (executive producer)
- Everybody's Fine (2009) (producer)
- The Box (2009) (executive producer)
- The Invention of Lying (2009) (executive producer)
- Twelve (2010) (producer)
- Bad Teacher (2011) (executive producer)
See also
- Madsen, Axel. The Marshall Fields: The Evolution of an American Business Dynasty. Wiley: 2002.
References
External links
- Ted Field at IMDb
- Filmbug: Ted Field biography