David Valdes is an American Academy Award nominated film producer more notable in the western genre and collaborating with Clint Eastwood.
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Valdes first started out his career as a production manager and unit director for films like Tightrope, (which he also had a minor role in), The Outsiders and Oh, God! Book II.
He became good friends with Eastwood after Tightrope and soon Valdes produced his first movie for Eastwood in 1985's Pale Rider. He went on to produce other Eastwood classics like The Dead Pool, Pink Cadillac, White Hunter Black Heart and Unforgiven.
Valdes received his first Oscar nomination for The Green Mile along with the film's director Frank Darabont.[1]
Valdes has since been producing more western films, as well as some science ficion films such as The Time Machine, Babylon A.D., and I Am Number Four.[2]
1985: Pale Rider
1986: Ratboy
1987: Gardens of Stone
1987: Like Father Like Son
1988: Bird
1988: The Dead Pool
1989: Pink Cadillac
1990: White Hunter Black Heart
1990: The Rookie
1992: Unforgiven
1993: In the Line of Fire
1993: A Perfect World
1997: Turbulence
1999: The Green Mile
2002: The Time Machine
2003: Open Range
2007: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2008: Babylon A.D.
2010: The Book of Eli
2011: I Am Number Four