John Dartigue, a 22-year Warner Bros government who rose to VP Publicity and supervised campaigns for such hits as The Fugitive and The Darkish Knight and after beginning his profession at United Artists and dealing on the primary 10 James Bonds pics, has died. He was 82.

A household spokesperson informed Deadline that Dartigue died November 9 in Los Angeles after a sudden sickness.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dartigue’s household moved to the U.S. when he was 5 and would turn out to be a U.S. citizen in 1973. He launched his profession in 1965 at United Artists by Robert Benjamin, the corporate’s co-chairman and a household buddy. He briefly was a reader within the story division earlier than serving as a trainee in what was then referred to as International Promoting & Publicity, underneath Ashley Boone. He then converted to the home aspect of publicity, the place he rose by the ranks as a publicist earlier than being upped to UA’s Director of Publicity in 1975 and serving briefly as VP Promoting & Publicity in 1978.

Whereas at United Artists, Dartigue supervised the publicity campaigns for its three back-to-back Greatest Image Oscar-winners within the mid-’70s: Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Sylvester Stallone starrer Rocky and Woody Allen’s Annie Corridor. He additionally labored publicity for the primary 10 James Bond movies, the 4 Beatles movies, Clint Eastwood’s Greenback spaghetti Westerns, Community, Carrie, Apocalypse Now, Coming Dwelling, That’s Leisure! and a number of pics every by Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman and François Truffaut.

He moved from New York to California in 1978 and joined Warner Bros in Burbank as a undertaking government within the advertising division. In 1984, he was appointed VP Publicity and remained within the submit till his 2001 retirement.

Throughout his WB tenure, Dartigue supervised the publicity campaigns for Greatest Image winners Midnight Cowboy and Within the Warmth of the Evening; franchises together with Batman, Ace Ventura and Mad Max; together with such hit movies as The Excellent Storm, The Fugitive, Interview with the Vampire, Malcolm X, The Inexperienced Mile, The Coloration Purple, New Jack Metropolis, Blade Runner, GoodFellas, The Witches of Eastwick, Caddyshack, 10, Arthur, The Unintended Vacationer, The Pelican Temporary, Presumed Harmless and The Pledge.

When Dartigue retired from Warners in June 2001, then-Home Theatrical Advertising and marketing President Brad Ball stated: “All through his distinguished profession at Warner Bros. Footage, John supervised publicity campaigns for a lot of of our most important movies. His management, experience and spectacular filmmaker relationships made him a extremely revered and invaluable member of our staff. The physique of labor and caliber of movies John oversaw converse for themselves.”

Survivors embrace cousins residing within the U.S., Haiti, Jamaica, Germany and Transylvania.