- He moved to Paris in 1991.
- In 1992 he became an Officer of the OC.
- He majored in chemical engineering in college, but found he wasn't very good at it. He earned an MBA from Harvard, and worked on Wall Street for three years before joining an investment house in London. In 1974, he was approached to arrange the financing for an animated feature about a group of rabbits. Watership Down (1978) became a box-office and critical success, and he became hooked on the movie business.
- He founded Goldcrest Films in the 1970s, and served as executive producer of several award-winning movies.
- As head of National Geographic Feature Films, he helped make the documentary March of the Penguins (2005) an international box-office hit.
- Film critic Roger Ebert said that they became friends "because at festivals we were always getting each other's mail".
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