Director Ivan Passer Passes Away at 86

Iconic director Ivan Passer, one of the most respected figures of Czech Republic's new wave of cinema passed away in Reno, Nevada at the age of 86, an associate of the family confirmed.

After moving to the U.S., Passer began making films with some of the top actors of the era, including Born to Win, in which George Segal plays a heroin addict opposite Paula Prentiss and Karen Black; cop satire Law & Disorder, starring Carroll O’Connor and Ernest Borgnine; and crime comedy Silver Bears with Michael Caine and Cybill Sheperd.

Perhaps his most well-known film was the 1981 Cutter’s Way, a noir drama starring John Heard as a wounded veteran and Jeff Bridges as his friend who helps him try to solve a murder.

May Passer's soul rest in peace.