Made Paramount Studios youngest President (29th August 1970, New York City) at the age of 30. The youngest man to hold such a position in the cinema industry.
Mother died when he was five years old.
Graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Met his producing partner Sherry Lansing in 1975 at a dinner party hosted by producer Douglas S. Cramer and his gossip columnist wife Joyce Haber.