---
name: "Adam Fields"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/adam-fields"
fi1m_id: "adam-fields"
imdb_id: "nm0276178"
tmdb_id: 1586
wikidata_id: "Q30131271"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T18:06:16.953758+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Adam Fields

## Identity

Adam Fields

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adam-fields
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adam-fields
- **IMDb ID:** nm0276178
- **TMDB ID:** 1586
- **Wikidata ID:** Q30131271
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Fields, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30131271, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0276178/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1586

Producer. Born in New York City.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 1983–2001
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 producing, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 54 (1), 2000s 83 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Fields, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30131271, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0276178/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1586

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Donnie Darko*](https://film.one/film/donnie-darko.md) (83)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Adam Fields is an American film and television producer. He founded Adam Fields Productions in 1984 and has worked with studios including Sony Pictures, Miramax, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Warner Bros.

He began his career at Creative Artists Agency and PolyGram Pictures before becoming Executive Vice President of Production at PolyGram. He later oversaw projects at Universal Pictures, including John Hughes films *Sixteen Candles* (1984) and *The Breakfast Club* (1985). As a producer he is credited on *Vision Quest* (1985), *Great Balls of Fire!* (1989), *Money Train* (1995), *Brokedown Palace* (1999, which he co-wrote), *Donnie Darko* (2001), *Drive Angry* (2011), *Limitless* (2011), *Safe Haven* (2013), *21 & Over* (2013), *The Wedding Ringer* (2015), *Masterminds* (2016) and *Bad Santa 2* (2016).

Fields was born in New York City and attended the University of California, Berkeley.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, adamfieldsproductions.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Donnie Darko* (2001), Fi1m 83, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/donnie-darko.md)

### Crew (1)

- *Flashdance* (1983), Fi1m 54, Music Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/flashdance.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Killer's Game* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Bad Santa 2* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Masterminds* (2016), Executive Producer
- *The Wedding Ringer* (2015), Producer
- *21 & Over* (2013), Co-Producer
- *Safe Haven* (2013), Co-Producer
- *Limitless* (2011), Executive In Charge Of Production
- *Drive Angry* (2011), Producer
- *S. Darko* (2009), Producer
- *Donnie Darko* (2001), Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/donnie-darko.md)
- *Brokedown Palace* (1999), Producer, Screenstory
- *Ravenous* (1999), Producer
- *Money Train* (1995), Executive Producer
- *Great Balls of Fire!* (1989), Producer
- *Journey to the Center of the Earth* (1988), Executive Producer
- *The Whoopee Boys* (1986), Producer
- *Vision Quest* (1985), Executive Producer
- *Sixteen Candles* (1984), Executive In Charge Of Production
- *Flashdance* (1983), Music Supervisor — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/flashdance.md)

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