Ronald Louis Schwary[1] (May 23, 1944 – July 2, 2020) was an Academy Award winning American producer and director.
Films that he was either producer or executive producer include Ordinary People for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture,[2] Havana, Scent of a Woman, Sabrina, Meet Joe Black and Random Hearts.
He also worked as a producer alongside Sidney Pollack in Absence of Malice and in Tootsie, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1983.
[4] Schwary was also the producer of the Rolling Stones documentary Lets Spend the Night Together in 1982.
Schwary served as an executive producer on the Barbra Streisand directed film The Mirror Has Two Faces.