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Biography #2 (for The Last Samurai)

Scott Kroopf is President and COO of Radar Pictures. Since forming the company four years ago with Chairman/CEO Ted Field, Kroopf has assembled a slate of over 25 projects embracing a wide range of styles and featuring some of the finest filmmakers working today. Radar's productions include Merchant-Ivory's Le Divorce, starring Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts; How to Deal, starring Mandy Moore; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, produced by Michael Bay; and The Chronicles of Riddick, directed by David Twohy and starring Vin Diesel.

Radar was built on the foundation of the former Interscope Communications, where from 1985 to 1999 Kroopf started as an in-house producer and development executive and eventually became President. Interscope produced more than 50 motion pictures during the course of its 20-year history, among them Jumanji, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Pitch Black, Runaway Bride, Very Bad Things, Gridlock'd, Mr. Holland's Opus, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Three Men and a Baby and Outrageous Fortune.

At Interscope, Kroopf shepherded projects ranging from epic, to action adventure, to indie. Directors such as Stephen Herek, Joe Johnston, Garry Marshall, and actors such as Julia Roberts, Richard Gere and Robin Williams came to know him as a supportive presence engaged in the filmmaking process from pre-production to marketing. Kroopf also built a reputation for sighting and nurturing talent early in their careers, among them writers-turned-directors Curtis Hanson, Peter Berg, David Twohy, Chris Matheson, Joe Carnahan and Ed Solomon and actors Keanu Reeves and Vin Diesel.

Before joining Interscope, Kroopf was Executive in Charge of Production for Embassy Pictures from 1982 to 1985, where he supervised the development and production of Stand by Me, The Sure Thing and A Chorus Line. He began his motion picture production career at Robe-Ackerman, a commercial-television-documentary production company.

Kroopf received his drama degree from the University of California at Irvine. He has extensive experience in theatrical lighting and set design and directed the play The Don Juan and the Non Don Juan, starring Keith Carradine, at L.A.'s Groundlings Theatre.

Bio courtesy Warner Bros. for "The Last Samurai" (02-Dec-2003)