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Casting director Mike Fenton, who in a more than 40-year-career worked on projects ranging from “The Andy Griffith Show” to movies including “The Godfather Part II” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” died Wednesday, Dec. 30, at age 85.
The news was confirmed to The Times by Fenton’s son, Mick, who said Fenton died at his home in Los Angeles from natural causes.
Casting director Mike Fenton, known for his work on films such as “The Godfather Part II” and “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” has died at age 85.
(courtesy of Casting Society of America)
Steven Spielberg worked with Fenton on numerous projects dating back to Spielberg’s first theatrical feature, “The Sugarland Express” in 1974. In a statement, Spielberg said, “Working with Mike Fenton was like working in a candy store he made casting a blast. His fervent support of actors was the stuff of legend, and after landing a part, any actor’s smile was rarely as wide as Mike’s. He didn’t s
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