Mike Fenton
He also collaborated with Sheldon Leonard on 'The Andy Griffith Show' and 'I Spy' and with Steven Spielberg on Indiana Jones movies during his long career.
Mike Fenton, the influential casting director who found actors for such landmark films as
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,
The Godfather: Part II,
E.T. — The Extraterrestrial and the three
Back to the Future movies, has died. He was 85.
Fenton, who spent more than a half-century in show business, died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles,
his son, Mick, told
The Hollywood Reporter.
After starting out in the mailroom at Music Corporation of America and becoming an agent at the Lew Wasserman firm, Fenton served as casting director for Paramount and then for Danny Thomas and Sheldon Leonard's T&L Productions, where he worked on