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Jake Eberts

Film producer;

Born: July 7, 1941; Died: September 6, 2012.

Jake Eberts, who has died of cancer aged 71, was the founder of Goldcrest Films, he is widely credited with reviving the British film industry when it looked like it was in its death throes in the early 1980s and he was instrumental in putting Scotland on international cinema screens.

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