Ted Field

Frederick Woodruff "Ted" Field (born June 1, 1953^[1]) is an American media mogul, entrepreneur and film producer.

He is an heir to the Field family fortune. At $1.2 billion, Field is No. 236 on the Forbes list of the 400 richest people.^[2]

Biography

Early life

Field was born in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, the son of Katherine Woodruff Fanning, later editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and Marshall Field IV, who owned the Chicago Sun-Times.^[3]

After the divorce of his parents at a young age, he and his sisters followed their mother and stepfather to Anchorage, Alaska. Katherine Field and her new husband, Larry Fanning, purchased the Anchorage Daily News from founder Norman C. Brown, publishing the paper for over a decade before selling it to The McClatchy Company.

Career

Field is well known by motor racing enthusiasts for being the boss of Interscope Records, a successful team that fielded talented musical artists like Snoop Dogg and even Pharrell Williams.

Interscope Racing started off entering Danny 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 during the 1978 season.

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.

In 1982, Field founded Interscope Communications, which produced more than 50 major films. In 1984, Field was a leader of a group that bought movie camera manufacturer Panavision. In 1987, Panavision was sold to Lee International. 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.

Personal life

From 1984 to 1998, he owned a mansion formerly owned by Howard B. Keck located at 1244 Moraga Drive in the gated community of Moraga Estates in Bel Air, California.^[4] He currently resides in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.

Filmography (producer)

• Revenge of the Nerds (1984) (producer)
• Turk 182! (1985) (producer)
• Critical Condition (1987) (producer)
• Outrageous Fortune (1987) (producer)
• Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) (producer)
• Three Men and a Baby (1987) (producer)
• The Seventh Sign (1988) (producer)
• Cocktail (1988) (producer)
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) (executive producer)
• Renegades (1989) (executive producer)
• An Innocent Man (1989) (producer)
• Collision Course (1989) (producer)
• Three Men and a Little Lady (1990) (producer)
• Arachnophobia (1990) (co-executive producer)
• The First Power (1990) (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)
• Spring Breakers (2012) (executive producer)
• Riddick (2013) (producer)
• Kickboxer (TBA) (producer)

See also

• Madsen, Axel. The Marshall Fields: The Evolution of an American Business Dynasty. Wiley: 2002.

References

External links

• Ted Field at the Internet Movie Database
• Filmbug: Ted Field biography