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Stuart Cornfeld, Producer of ‘Tropic Thunder’ and ‘Zoolander,’ Dies at 67
Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorStuart Cornfeld, who worked with Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films to produce movies including “Tropic Thunder,” “Dodgeball” and “Zoolander,” has died of cancer.Several of his friends posted about his death on social media.At Red Hour, which he founded with Stiller in 1999, he also produced “Duplex” starring Stiller and Drew Barrymore, “Starsky & Hutch,” “Blades of Glory” and “The Ruins.” One of the last films he produced was “The Polka King,” starring Jack Black.Earlier in his career, Cornfeld produced films including David Cronenberg’s “The Fly,” “National Lampoon’s European Vacation” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Kafka.”Cornfeld got his start working as assistant to Mel Brooks on “High Anxiety” in 1977.
