David Ladd

Known for Acting

2/5/1947(Age 78)

Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

David Ladd (son of late star actor Alan Ladd) is an American producer and former actor.

Known For (34 credits)

7.3

Cursed Films

2020

A documentary series exploring the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously “cursed” horror film productions. From plane accidents and bombings during the making of The Omen, to the rumored use of real human skeletons on the set of Poltergeist, these stories are legendary amongst film fans and filmmakers alike. But where does the truth lie?

2.0

Movie

Valerie

2019

A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.

5.4

Movie

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies

2017

Profile of the producer and former studio head of 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, Alan Ladd Jr.

7.0

Movie

Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man

1999

In the 1942 film "This Gun For Hire," he was only a supporting actor. But his portrayal of a cold, ruthless killer with a core of gentle sadness had an impact on audiences everywhere. Teamed with diminutive Veronica Lake, he became an immediately saleable commodity, and in the process helped launch the age of film noir. By 1954, Photoplay Magazine voted him the world's most popular male film star; his fellow award-winner was Marilyn Monroe. But Alan Ladd's fabulous success already contained within it the mechanism to self-destruct.

3.0

Movie

Beyond the Universe

1981

A 21st-century scientist tries to save Earth after two atomic wars.

5.0

Movie

Captive

1980

Two aliens from the planet Styrolia crashland on Earth near a farm and take the inhabitants hostage.

6.9

Movie

The Wild Geese

1978

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.

6.4

Movie

The Day of the Locust

1975

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

2.6

Movie

The Treasure of Jamaica Reef

1975

An adventure film about the search for a more than 200-year-old treasure on the ocean floor.

5.7

Movie

The Klansman

1974

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku Klux Klan's violent retaliation against his innocent friend, Garth declares a one-man war on the Klan and hunts them down one-by-one.

7.0

Kojak

1973

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

6.1

Movie

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1973

Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in a quest for wisdom.