John Dartigue, a 22-year Warner Bros executive who rose to VP Publicity and supervised campaigns for such hits as The Fugitive and The Dark Knight and after starting his career at United Artists an…
A family spokesperson told Deadline that Dartigue died November 9 in Los Angeles after a sudden illness.Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dartigue’s family moved to the U.S. when he was 5 and would become a U.S. citizen in 1973. He launched his career in 1965 at United Artists through Robert Benjamin, the company’s co-chairman and a family friend.
While at United Artists, Dartigue supervised the publicity campaigns for its three back-to-back Best Picture Oscar-winners in the mid-’70s: Miloš Forman’sHe also worked publicity for the first 10 James Bond films, the four Beatles films, Clint Eastwood’sand multiple pics each by Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman and François Truffaut.
He moved from New York to California in 1978 and joined Warner Bros in Burbank as a project executive in the marketing department. In 1984, he was appointed VP Publicity and remained in the post until his 2001 retirement.Midnight Cowboy
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