User:Eric A. Hauser

Erich A. Hauser's career began at age five performing live Radio commercials for the Sunkist Orange Juice Company. Son of the late, Academy Award winner, Producer, Dwight Hauser, he was born and raised over a lake in the Sherwood Forest of Southern California. At age ten he hit the Play boards in “See The Jaguar” with childhood chum, Kurt Russell. After a summer serving as a page in the California State Assembly under Jessie Unruh in Sacramento, he shed politics at the ripe old age of twelve and began developing his writing skills for Warner Brother’s television executive producer, Quinn Martin in association with Warner Brothers Television. There, he re-wrote scripts for his father, writer, director, producer, Dwight Hauser at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Projects included The Fugitive, Twelve O'clock High, and McHales Navy.

His debut in film came at fifteen when he starred in The Big Wild, Erich's true life adventure story of a boy and his father stranded in the High Sierra for ten days without food, three with no water. The two became stranded because from an inaccurate topographical map. Because Erich left a compass reading, 338 degrees, North by North West, on the dashboard of their car, the Search and Rescue team was able to locate and chopper them to safety. Erich was commended by then Governor Ronald Reagan for his actions while stranded in the wilderness.

In the seventies, he joined Motown Records as a staff writer, and later co-produced the group “High Energy” with Anna Gordy Gaye and her sister, the late Gwyne Fuqua, manager of the Supremes. He formed the group “Loophole” and performed in clubs and concerts throughout the country until one day, he decided to return to his first love, film. His brother, actor, writer, director, Wings Hauser submitted a script to Paramount titled Youth in Asia, which later became Uncommon Valor, Time Magazine wrote Sleeper of the Year.

Wings cast Erich in the Vietnam war drama “Fire Base Gloria” filmed in an active war zone in South East Asia, While filming a great battle scene, Erich and Wings helicopter hovered over the fire base. At once an over packed bomb was set off, and a great mushroom cloud enveloped the area sucking the oxygen out of the air around the chopper. Without oxygen a helicopter cannot stay aloft, and it didn't. It dropped fifty feet and crashed. They escaped death and filming ceased for at least a half hour. The brothers made the trek to Africa, While on location in SWETO, home of Mr. Nelson Mandela, they were caught in a riot. Armored cars entered the township, gas canons spraying bullets cracking, night sticks swinging, people crying.

When the smoke cleared several were injured, some people were killed. Days later Erich was approached by the International Red Cross, and asked if he would be interested in inspecting the working conditions of miners at Kinross, the deepest mine in the world. He accepted, suited up, climbed into a flimsy wooden 20 x 20 cage with several other miners, and commenced to free fall 200 meters per second hanging by a sting thin cable. Minutes later they reached the end of the line seven miles below the earth.

Experiences like this began to shape Erich’s perspective on the world, profoundly determining his future career path.

Back in the U.S.A, he spent sixteen weeks in Page Arizona writing additional dialogue on Beast Master II. Surprisingly, this location served up some of the harshest natural elements a production company would face. Out of the 100 cast and crew to start, Erich was one of fifteen original members to complete the film, "and loving it every minute."

Erich Produced the “World of Investment” at the Los Angeles Convention Center bringing all the great economists of the world together in one forum. Included among the participants, Alan Greenspan, John Kenneth Galbraith, Eliot Janeway, and Milton Friedman. In the 80s Mr. Hauser Pioneered the Wind Energy Business in the Altamont Pass, California with John Eckland, former Government Chief of Energy Research, for Fayette Wind Turbines, Virginia. He joined Cal-American Income Fund IV Real Estate Investment Trust/as Director, and later President of California Kaolin Clay Corporation/ /Parris/Lorraine Gold Peak Mining District.

Through the eyes of a young American, he was profoundly struck by the plight of humanity. Location after location around the world became Erich’s classroom of study and research culminating in being at ground zero in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution and the eventual exodus from Egypt. Today, Erich heads a consortium of business leaders, and philanthropic organizations from around the world. Erich is Managing Member of GOLDEN AVATAR ENVIRONMENTAL LLC, Oil spill remediation company.

HE Served as Campaign Finance Chairman for the 23rd Congressional race in California and is Founder, and Chairman of the Westwood Movie Dedications, “Monument To Film”, a Bronze film reel with the name and date of every film ever to win the Academy Award inlaid in terrazzo along Westwood Boulevard.