David Brown, in partnership with Richard D. Zanuck, produced some of the more memorable films of recent times, including Jaws, Academy Award-winner The Sting, The Verdict and Cocoon. As the producers of The Sugarland Express, Mr. Zanuck and Mr. Brown helped to establish Steven Spielberg's career as a director, and they went on to engage him to direct the highly successful film Jaws. Mr. Brown also served as executive producer for the Academy Award-winning film Driving Miss Daisy, which Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck produced.

Mr. Brown also produced the critically acclaimed and award-winning Robert Altman film, The Player, as well as Rob Reiner's Academy Award-nominated A Few Good Men, starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon.

Deep Impact, the 1998 box office success, was produced by Mr. Brown and Mr. Zanuck, and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Directed by Mimi Leder, Deep Impact stars Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell and Elijah Wood.

In 1997, Mr. Brown's production of The Saint starring Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue and directed by Phillip Noyce, was released. With Joe Wizan, he produced Kiss the Girls, a thriller starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd, a worldwide hit. Mr. Brown and Scott Rudin are preparing Angela's Ashes, as a film for Paramount based on the unprecedented success of Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, on March 25, 1991, awarded Mr. Brown and Mr. Zanuck the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, given only by the Board of Governors of the Academy to "a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production." At that time, there had only been 27 such awards given in the Academy's 65-year history. In addition, and also with Mr. Zanuck, Mr. Brown received from the Producers Guild of America the David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award on March 3, 1993.

In addition, Mr. Brown has had a long career as a journalist, author and magazine editor (including having been Managing Editor of Cosmopolitan in the pre-Helen Gurley Brown years), as well as a film executive. Mr. Zanuck and Mr. Brown headed film production for years at Twentieth Century Fox and later at Warner Bros.

Mr. Brown's first book was the critically acclaimed Brown's Guide to Growing Gray, published by Delacorte in 1987. This was followed by his memoirs, Let Me Entertain You, published by William Morrow to excellent reviews. His next bestseller was The Rest of Your Life, published by Barricade Books in 1991. He is also an occasional contributor to The New Yorker.

Mr. Brown was represented on Broadway as producer of Tru, A Few Good Men and The Cemetery Club and in London with Vanilla. He is preparing, with Ernest Lehman, a Broadway musical based on the classic film The Sweet Smell of Success. John Guare is writing the book.

In television, Mr. Brown and William S. Gilmore produced an award-winning series for Home Box Office entitled Women & Men, starring Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Beau Bridges, Molly Ringwald and Peter Weller in classic short stories. In 1996, Mr. Brown produced a four-hour miniseries for CBS based on Dominick Dunne's bestselling book A Season in Purgatory, directed by David Greene, and is developing with Max Rosenberg a television miniseries of John Dos Passos' trilogy U.S.A.

Mr. Brown is a resident of New York, a member of the Trustee Advisory Board of the Museum of Modern Art and Board of Visitors of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.