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Arnold Kopelson, ‘Platoon’ producer, dies at 83

By Abbey Westbury
October 08 2018 12:48 PM

CP329430397 — FILE - In this Monday, March 31, 1987 file photo, Claire Simpson, center, is flanked by Arnold Kopelson, left, and Oliver Stone as the threesome meets backstage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles after receiving Oscars, for best editing (Simpson), best direction (Stone) and best picture (Kopelson) for the film, "Platoon." Kopelson, a versatile film producer whose credits ranged from the raunchy teen smash "Porky\'s" to the Holocaust drama "Triumph of the Spirit" to the Oscar-winning "Platoon," died Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, at age 83. Family spokesman Jeff Sanderson told The Associated Press that Kopelson died of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

NEW YORK – The producer of the Oscar-winning “Platoon” has died. Arnold Kopelson was 83.

CBS, of which Kopelson was a board member for more than a decade, confirmed to The Associated Press that Kopelson died Monday. Details were not available.

Kopelson produced the Oliver Stone film about the Vietnam War that came out in 1986 and won four Academy Awards, including one for Kopelson for best picture. His other credits include such 1990s hits as “The Fugitive,” a best picture nominee, and “A Perfect Murder.”

Kopelson was in the news this summer when a video he shot of media mogul Sumner Redstone became part of a lawsuit involving CBS and whether the 95-year-old Redstone was still able to make decisions.

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