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C.O. Erickson(1923-2017)

  • Production Manager
  • Producer
  • Actor
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C.O. Erickson
C.O. "Doc" Erickson, an executive producer, has over thirty years' experience as a producer and production manager on many of Hollywood's biggest films. He began his career at Paramount Pictures, serving as production manager on five Alfred Hitchcock films: Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Vertigo (1958). He left Paramount to become John Huston's associate producer on The Misfits (1961), Freud (1962), and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967). He was production manager on Joseph L. Mankiewicz's There Was a Crooked Man... (1970). He also spent three years supervising film production for Brut Productions and later became associated with Robert Evans on Chinatown (1974), Players (1979), Urban Cowboy (1980), and Popeye (1980). Other producer/production credits include 55 Days at Peking (1963), Blade Runner (1982), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Magic (1978), and The Lonely Guy (1984).
BornDecember 17, 1923
DiedJune 28, 2017(93)
BornDecember 17, 1923
DiedJune 28, 2017(93)
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Known for

Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell in Groundhog Day (1993)
Groundhog Day
8.0
  • Production Management
  • 1993
Harrison Ford and Sean Young in Blade Runner (1982)
Blade Runner
8.1
  • Production Management
  • 1982
Nick Stahl, Katie Holmes, and James Marsden in Disturbing Behavior (1998)
Disturbing Behavior
5.7
  • Producer
  • 1998
Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Claire Forlani in Antitrust (2001)
Antitrust
6.1
  • Production Management
  • 2001

Credits

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Production Management



  • Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Claire Forlani in Antitrust (2001)
    Antitrust
    6.1
    • unit production manager
    • 2001
  • David Duchovny and Minnie Driver in Return to Me (2000)
    Return to Me
    7.0
    • unit production manager
    • 2000
  • Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd in Kiss the Girls (1997)
    Kiss the Girls
    6.6
    • unit production manager (as C.O. 'Doc' Erickson)
    • 1997
  • Chris Farley and David Spade in Black Sheep (1996)
    Black Sheep
    6.2
    • production manager
    • 1996
  • Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
    Stuart Saves His Family
    5.3
    • unit production manager
    • 1995
  • Blankman (1994)
    Blankman
    5.2
    • unit production manager
    • 1994
  • Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell in Groundhog Day (1993)
    Groundhog Day
    8.0
    • unit production manager
    • 1993
  • Mobsters (1991)
    Mobsters
    5.9
    • unit production manager
    • 1991
  • Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Ironweed (1987)
    Ironweed
    6.7
    • unit production manager
    • 1987
  • C. Thomas Howell in Secret Admirer (1985)
    Secret Admirer
    6.5
    • unit production manager
    • 1985
  • Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, Chris Penn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Jenny Wright in The Wild Life (1984)
    The Wild Life
    6.0
    • unit production manager
    • 1984
  • Dabney Coleman and Henry Thomas in Cloak & Dagger (1984)
    Cloak & Dagger
    6.6
    • unit production manager
    • 1984
  • Steve Martin in The Lonely Guy (1984)
    The Lonely Guy
    6.2
    • production manager
    • 1984
  • Sean Penn and Amanda Wyss in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    7.1
    • unit production manager
    • 1982
  • Harrison Ford and Sean Young in Blade Runner (1982)
    Blade Runner
    8.1
    • executive in charge of production
    • 1982

Producer



  • Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach in Windtalkers (2002)
    Windtalkers
    6.1
    • executive producer
    • 2002
  • Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Claire Forlani in Antitrust (2001)
    Antitrust
    6.1
    • executive producer
    • 2001
  • David Duchovny and Minnie Driver in Return to Me (2000)
    Return to Me
    7.0
    • executive producer
    • 2000
  • Nick Stahl, Katie Holmes, and James Marsden in Disturbing Behavior (1998)
    Disturbing Behavior
    5.7
    • executive producer
    • 1998
  • Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd in Kiss the Girls (1997)
    Kiss the Girls
    6.6
    • executive producer
    • 1997
  • Chris Farley and David Spade in Black Sheep (1996)
    Black Sheep
    6.2
    • executive producer
    • 1996
  • Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
    Stuart Saves His Family
    5.3
    • executive producer
    • 1995
  • Blankman (1994)
    Blankman
    5.2
    • producer
    • 1994
  • Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell in Groundhog Day (1993)
    Groundhog Day
    8.0
    • executive producer
    • 1993
  • Mobsters (1991)
    Mobsters
    5.9
    • executive producer
    • 1991
  • Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Ironweed (1987)
    Ironweed
    6.7
    • co-producer
    • 1987
  • Project X (1987)
    Project X
    6.2
    • executive producer
    • 1987
  • C. Thomas Howell in Secret Admirer (1985)
    Secret Admirer
    6.5
    • executive producer
    • 1985
  • Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, Chris Penn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Jenny Wright in The Wild Life (1984)
    The Wild Life
    6.0
    • executive producer
    • 1984
  • Dabney Coleman and Henry Thomas in Cloak & Dagger (1984)
    Cloak & Dagger
    6.6
    • executive producer
    • 1984

Actor



  • Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell in Groundhog Day (1993)
    Groundhog Day
    8.0
    • Bank Guard Herman (as Doc Erickson)
    • 1993
  • Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown (1974)
    Chinatown
    8.1
    • Customer (as Doc Erickson)
    • 1974
  • Is Paris Burning? (1966)
    Is Paris Burning?
    6.8
    • (uncredited)
    • 1966

Personal details

  • Alternative names
    • C.O. 'Doc' Erickson
  • Born
    • December 17, 1923
    • Kankakee, Illinois, USA
  • Died
    • June 28, 2017
    • Las Vegas, Nevada, USA(heart complications)
  • Spouse
    • Gloria(divorced, 1 child)

Did you know

  • Trivia
    Though most of his work was behind the scenes, he's remembered as the barber shop customer who angers Jack Nicholson in Chinatown by saying, "Fools names and fools faces," about his coverage in the newspaper.
  • Quotes
    For me, Cecil B. Demille was a guy totally out of reach and I really had no business being in contact with him whatsoever. ...He had sent some guys off to Kansas City to collect information for a film he was developing called Boy Scout. I happened to be in the front office at Paramount and his people called-in with a report for him, so I passed it onto the head of my department and he said: 'No, you run-it to Demille, he's on the lot right now'. So I found him in the cafeteria with his assistant. Cecil got up, shook my hand. He was a nice man.
  • Nickname
    • Doc

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