Steven Bach, 70, a former United Artists movie executive who oversaw the 1980 debacle “Heaven’s Gate,” died March 25 of lung cancer at his home in Arlington, Vt., agent Robert Lescher said.
In the 1970s, Bach was a partner in Pantheon Pictures and helped produce the thrillers “The Parallax View” and “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” before he moved to United Artists.
“Heaven’s Gate,” a Western about land barons in 19th-century Wyoming, was supposed to be a $7.5 million feature, but it evolved into a $36 million boondoggle. United Artists fired Bach after it, and in 1985 he told his side of the story in a memoir titled “Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of ‘Heaven’s Gate.’ ”
Miguelangel Suarez, 69, a Puerto Rican actor whose career included minor roles in last year’s epic “Che” and Woody Allen’s “Bananas,” died Wednesday of esophageal cancer in San Juan.
