Daniel received his first super-8 camera for his fifteenth birthday. The first roll was almost completely underexposed. Still, it was then that he knew that he wanted to make movies. Daniel will graduate from Minneapolis College with an A.S. in Filmmaking in 2004.
(1977-1979) President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw)
Children: daughters Jan and Meg; son Bill.
Cousin of Lauree Dash.
President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1970 to 1973.
Cousin of Ford Austin.
Graduated from Harvard Law School in 1936. Though passing the New York bar exam, he never practiced law.
Wartime service with the U.S. Signals Corps, involved as writer/producer in the making of training and motivational films.
A noted civil libertarian and opponent of McCarthyism.
In 1955, Taradash formed an independent production company, Phoenix Corporation, with his writing partner Julian Blaustein.
It was Daniel Taradash, then president of AMPAS, who introduced Charles Chaplin at the 44th Annual Academy Awards in 1972 and presented him with the honorary Oscar, which resulted in the longest standing ovation in Academy Award history.
