Wick is the son of actress Mary Jane (Woods) and
United States Information Agency director
Charles Z. Wick. Following his
cum laude graduation from
Yale University, where he was a member of
Wolf's Head Society, Douglas Wick began work for filmmaker
Alan J. Pakula as his "coffee boy". In 1979, Wick would get his first film credit when he served as
associate producer on Pakula's film
Starting Over. Wick's first solo producing job came on the 1988 film
Working Girl. His next film,
Wolf, would reunite Wick with
Mike Nichols, who directed
Working Girl, before he went on to produce the 1996 film
The Craft. The year of 1999 saw Wick produce both the critical-hit
Girl, Interrupted and the box-office hit
Stuart Little. The following year brought with it Wick's biggest success to date,
Gladiator. This film would net Wick an
Academy Award, a
Golden Globe, and a
BAFTA Award all for "Best Picture". Also in 2000 Wick produced the
Sci Fi hit
Hollow Man. In the next few years Wick would produce
Spy Game,
Peter Pan (the first live action version of the
J.M. Barrie classic tale), a successful
Stuart Little sequel
Stuart Little 2, and
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!. Wick has been married to
Lucy Fisher since 1986, and together they have three daughters.
Red Wagon Entertainment Douglas Wick is the founder of Red Wagon Entertainment and Red Wagon Productions. In 2000, he expanded the company to bring in Lucy Fisher, his partner and wife. Red Wagon Productions has been the production company on fifteen of the films Wick has produced, including:
Girl, Interrupted;
Spy Game; and
Memoirs of a Geisha. ==Filmography==