David Korda , the British film producer and financier who hailed from a family of notable filmmakers including his father Zoltàn Korda, has died. He was 87. Korda’s death was disclosed disclosed Nov.
16 by film historian Charles Drazin via social media. Korda died Sept. 18 at Cromwell Hospital in London following a battle with cancer, according to Drazin who wrote a 2011 biography of Korda’s uncle, producer-director Alexander Korda.
News of David Korda’s death was first reported by the Hollywood Reporter. Korda’s father was the director of films such as 1939’s “The Four Feathers” and 1951’s “Cry, the Beloved Country.” His mother was actress Joan Gardner, known for roles in such films as 1934’s “The Scarlett Pimpernel” and 1937’s “Dark Journey.
” His uncle Alexander Korda founded London Films, owner of British Lion Films, which produced the 1933 feature “The Private Life of Henry VIII” and 1949’s “The Third Man.” His uncle Vincent Korda was an Oscar-winning art director. Over the course of his career, which spanned more than six decades, David Korda produced films such as 1987’s “Hamburger Hill” and the 1999 Paul Bettany starrer “After the Rain.
” As a film financier, he worked with director Francis Ford Coppola on the production of 1983’s “The Outsiders” and “Rumble Fish.” He was also instrumental in arranging financing for Terry Gilliam’s famously over-budget production of 1988’s “The Adventures of Baron Mun.
