Carter De Haven III, who as a member of a distinguished, multigenerational Hollywood family produced such notable films as Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, Ulzana’s Raid and Hoosiers, has died. He was 94.

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De Haven died Friday at UCLA West Valley Medical Center, his son, film editor Carter De Haven IV, told The Hollywood Reporter. He lived at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills for the past eight years.

De Haven III also produced three (well, maybe 2 1/2) films directed by John Huston: A Walk With Love and Death (1969), starring Anjelica Huston; the spy thriller The Kremlin Letter (1970), starring Bibi Andersson and Richard Boone; and the thriller The Last Run (1971), which was completed by Richard Fleischer after De Haven had to fire Huston amid griping from star George C. Scott.

He also shepherded two neo-noir crime films directed by John Flynn: The Outfit (1974), starring Robert Duvall, and Best Seller (1987), starring James Woods and Brian Dennehy and written by Larry Cohen.

De Haven made his feature producing debut on the heist film Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), starring James Coburn — that also marked Harrison Ford’s big-screen debut — and after the three Huston movies had a critical hit with Robert Aldrich’s Ulzana’s Raid (1972), an revisionist Western that starred Burt Lancaster.

He found his biggest success with the David Anspaugh-directed Hoosiers (1986), starring Gene Hackman as Hickory High School basketball coach Norman Dale, who takes his small-town, underdog team all the way to the Indiana state championship.

Hoosiers ranks among the most beloved sports film ever made, with THR placing it No. 17 on a list it published in August.

“This is a gloriously earnest celebration of the overlooked human spirit — and a weaponized 105-minute countdown to a final five minutes guaranteed to make you cheer and cry,” THR wrote. “It works beautifully no matter how many times you’ve seen it or how many imitators you’ve sat through.”

An only child, Carter De Haven was born in Los Angeles on Feb. 16, 1932. His grandparents, the first Carter De Haven (real name Francis O’Callaghan) and Flora Parker, were vaudeville stars who received top billing as “Mr. and Mrs. Carter De Haven” in silent film comedies including Twin Beds (1920) and The Panic’s On (1923). Later, his granddad worked with Charlie Chaplin as assistant director on Modern Times (1936) and as assistant producer on The Great Dictator (1940).

His father, Carter De Haven Jr., was an A.D. on Picnic (1955), The Caine Mutiny (1954) and Days of Wine and Roses (1964) and an associate producer on Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Then there’s his dad’s younger sister, Gloria DeHaven, a star of such MGM musicals as Thousands Cheer (1943) and Step Lively (1944). She also portrayed her mom in 1950’s Three Little Words, starring Fred Astaire and Red Skelton.

Carter De Haven III graduated from Hollywood High and UCLA, then was stationed in Korea with the U.S. Army Reserve. When he told his folks he missed listening to music in the service, his father’s friend Frank Sinatra sent him a box of records.

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De Haven was an A.D. director starting in the late 1950s on such TV programs as Schlitz Playhouse, Mike Hammer, Wagon Train, Tales of Wells Fargo, Riverboat, Bachelor Father, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Thriller, Laramie and The Virginian.

His first film as an A.D. was Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963), starring Jack Lemmon and Edie Adams.

He quit his day job at Universal to go into producing. When Bernard Girard, who would write and direct Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, showed him the script for the film, “I flipped over it,” he recalled in 2016. “I said, ‘Jesus, I’ll make a deal with this.’ He said, ‘How do you know that?’ I said, ‘I don’t know, but I will’ and got lucky. The first people I sent it to said, ‘Let’s make the movie.’”

According to his son, De Haven didn’t think much of Ford’s prospects as an actor, even though he had just one brief uncredited scene as a bellhop in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round — “not a chance” was the exact quote. However, the two later became friends and got a kick out of that.

When Scott, who was coming off his Oscar win for Patton, complained to De Haven that Huston was messing with the script on The Last Run and that this “is not the picture I signed on to make,” the producer had to pink-slip one of Hollywood’s most imposing directors.

“Not many people can recover from firing John Huston, but my dad did,” his son noted.

De Haven, who read about 10 scripts a week, produced Orion Pictures’ Hoosiers with Angelo Pizzo, who wrote the screenplay and insisted that Anspaugh, his former Indiana University classmate, direct his first feature.

“What attracted me most to the script was that it rang of truth about a certain time, place and event in America,” De Haven says in Allan Hunter’s 1987 book, Gene Hackman. “There’s a lot of passion, a lot of caring and a tremendous amount of hard work that’s gone into it.”

His producing résumé also included Lewis Gilbert’s Operation Daybreak (1975), Seniors (1978), Michael Schultz’s Carbon Copy (1981), the Graham Chapman-starring parody Yellowbeard (1983), Cohen’s Perfect Strangers (1984), Maxie (1985) and The Exorcist III (1990).

In addition to his son, who edited films including Dumber and Dumber and Orgazmo, survivors include his daughter, Melinda; his grandchildren, Carlye, Chelsea, Carter V, Patricia, Tess and Davis; and his great-grandkids, Sophie, Sadie, Quinn and Beau. His daughter Brooke died in 2012.

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