Throughout his tragically short career, Alan Ladd starred in some of the most popular western movies of the Hollywood Golden age. A mainstay of action, adventure, and noir films throughout the '40s ...

One of Hollywood’s most celebrated Western heroes could have looked very different.

NEW YORK (AP) — Alan Ladd Jr., the Oscar-winning producer and studio boss who as a 20th Century Fox executive greenlit “Star Wars,” has died. He was 84. Ladd died Wednesday, his daughter Amanda ...

Oscar-winning producer and influential motion picture executive Alan Ladd Jr., who ushered in the “Star Wars” era of motion pictures, died Wednesday. He was 84. “With the heaviest of hearts, we ...