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During the 1980s and 1990s, he was a co-producer with Don Simpson of a string of highly successful Hollywood films for Paramount Pictures.

He originally met Don at a screening of 1973's The Harder They Come at Warner Brothers.

The two worked together and created Bruckheimer's first big hit, 1983's Flashdance, which brought in US $ 95 million, an incredible sum for an R-rated film.

He had a number of other hits including the Beverly Hills Cop films, Top Gun and Days of Thunder.