Caption: Best Picture winners Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz flank Best Director Milos Foreman, Best Actress Louise Fletcher and Best Actor Jack Nicholson ("One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest") at the 48th Academy Awards.
Producer, Actor, Sound Department
Born: February 28, 1921
Star sign: Pisces
Known for: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Amadeus (1984), The English Patient (1996), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Source: IMDB
Saul Zaentz learned gambling as a youth in Passaic, New Jersey, playing a card game called briscola. Later, in his twenties, he earned a full-time living as a gambler. Saul settled in San Francisco after WWII, at first working for a local record distributor and eventually joining the jazz record label Fantasy Records. Working as a salesman and ...