Hawk Koch
Hawk Koch | |
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Koch in 2014 | |
| Born | Howard Winchel Koch Jr. December 14, 1945 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film producer |
| Spouses | Rita Litter
(m. 1967, divorced)Marcia (div. 1983)Molly Jordan Koch (m. 1998) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Ruth (Pincus) Koch Howard Winchel Koch Sr. |
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Howard Winchel Koch Jr. (born December 14, 1945), also known as Hawk Koch, is an American film producer. A former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America, he was involved in the production of over 60 major films, including Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Way We Were (1973), Chinatown (1974), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Gorky Park (1983), Wayne's World (1992) and its 1993 sequel, Primal Fear (1996), Collateral Damage (2002), Fracture (2007), and Source Code (2011). He is currently a board member for AMC Entertainment, the Motion Picture and Television Fund, and the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Koch is a former road manager for the musical groups The Supremes and The Dave Clark Five. In 2019, he published his memoir, Magic Time: My Life in Hollywood.