Mike Fenton, the legendary casting director who worked on the “Back to the Future” franchise, “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and scores of other classic movies and TV shows, has died. He was 85. Fenton co-founded what is now known as Casting Society of America in 1982. He was a prominent casting
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
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Washington [US], January 2 (ANI): Mike Fenton, the legendary casting director who worked on the Back to the Future franchise, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark and scores of other classic movies and TV shows, has died. He was 85.
According to Variety, Fenton co-founded what is now known as Casting Society of America in 1982. He was a prominent casting director for more than 40 years, with a mile-long resume that stretched from The Andy Griffith Show and That Girl to Chinatown, American Graffiti, The Godfather II, Blade Runner, A Christmas Story, Norma Rae, Footloose, Honeymoon in Vegas and Chaplin.
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