Gary Magness is an

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businessman and film producer.IMDB profile
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and grew up in

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Bob Magness Bob Magness (June 3, 1924 – November 15, 1996) was an American businessman who founded Tele-Communications, Inc (TCI). At the time of his death, TCI was the largest cable television provider in the United States, and Forbes Magazine listed ...

, the founder of

Tele-Communications Inc. Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) was a cable television provider in the United States, and for most of its history was controlled by Bob Magness and John Malone. The company was started in 1958 in Bozeman, Montana as Western Microwave, Inc. and Co ...

He attended the

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, but dropped out. Through his inheritance, he is a large stockholder in Tele-Communications Inc. He also chairs the Magness Investment Group, whose portfolio includes Magness Land & Cattle, Fortrust, a Denver-based state-of-the-art data center, and

aquaculture Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lot ...

breeding farms. In 2007, he founded Smokewood Entertainment with his wife, Sarah Siegel-Magness. He has produced three films and he is producing a fourth one. He has made charitable donations to the Food Bank of the Rockies, the

University of Denver The University of Denver (DU) is a private university, private research university in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1864, it is the oldest independent private university in the Mountain States, Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. It is ...

, and

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. He collects vintage cars. He is married with three children, and they live in

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, Colorado.

Filmography as producer

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Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer ''Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer'' is a 2011 American comedy film based on Megan McDonald's '' Judy Moody'' book series. Directed by John Schultz from a screenplay by McDonald and Kathy Waugh, it introduces Australian actress Jordana Beatty ...

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Crazy Kind of Love ''Crazy Kind of Love'' is a 2013 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Sarah Siegel-Magness which is based on the 1995 novel '' Angel Angel'' by April Stevens. The film stars Virginia Madsen, Graham Rogers, Amanda Crew, Zach Gilford a ...

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