Veteran Canadian indie film producer Jake Eberts, whose film credits included Chariots of Fire and Gandhi while running Britain’s Goldcrest Films for a decade from 1976, has died in Montreal after a short illness, aged 71 years.

In all, the 50 movies that Eberts produced included The Killing Fields, Dances With Wolves and Driving Miss Daisy, and together raked in 37 Oscars.

According to his family, Eberts was diagnosed two years ago with a rare cancer of the eye, which spread to his liver.

Goldcrest Films, which revived the British film industry before going virtually bankrupt in 1985, was the subject of a 1990 memoir by Eberts, My Indecision Is Final: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Goldcrest Films, the Independent Studio That Challenged Hollywood.

In that classic book, Eberts questioned whether Goldcrest Films had a chance to ultimately succeed as an indie film producer if it did not control its U.S. distribution channel, a position that had implications for indie producers everywhere.

Eberts is survived by his wife, Fiona, and three children, Alex, Dave and Lindsay.