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Movie producer Elliott Kastner dies at 80

By Claire Noland
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Elliott Kastner, a longtime Hollywood movie producer whose credits include ‘Where Eagles Dare’ (1968) and film adaptations of the Raymond Chandler crime novels ‘The Long Goodbye’ (1973), ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ (1975) and ‘The Big Sleep’ (1978), has died. He was 80.

Kastner died of cancer Wednesday in London, his stepson, actor Cary Elwes, said.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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