Goldwyn Jr. passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the New York Times reports. His son John said the cause of death was congestive heart failure.
Goldwyn Jr.’s producing credits included “Mystic Pizza” and “The Preacher’s Wife.” He earned an Oscar nomination as a producer on 2003’s “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” and won an Emmy for producing the 1988 Academy Awards.
As the son of Paramount Pictures founder Samuel Goldwyn Sr., the younger Goldwyn continued his family’s legacy with the founding of two companies: The Samuel Goldwyn Company and Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Goldwyn Jr. was viewed as one of the early champions of independent film, and helped back the early movies of award-winning auteurs such as Anthony Minghella (“Truly Madly Deeply”) and Ang Lee (“The Wedding Banquet”).
His last major producing credit was for the 2013 Ben Stiller comedy, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a remake of one of his father’s biggest hit films.
Goldwyn Jr. is by survived by his wife Patricia, six children and nine grandchildren. Goldwyn Jr.'s son Tony Goldwyn stars on the ABC drama “Scandal.”
