David Puttnam

The Right Honourable The Lord Puttnam CBE HonFRSA HonFRPS MRIA
Official portrait, 2020
Chancellor of the Open University
In office 3 October 2007 – 12 March 2014
Preceded by	The Baroness Boothroyd
Succeeded by	The Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho
Chancellor of the University of Sunderland
In office 1997–2007
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Steve Cram
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 27 October 1997 – 27 October 2021 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	David Terence Puttnam (1941-02-25) 25 February 1941 (age 83) Southgate, Middlesex, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Patricia Mary Jones ​ (m. 1961)​
Children	2
Occupation	Film producer and educator
Website	www.davidputtnam.com

David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA (/ˈpʌtnəm/; born 25 February 1941) is a British-Irish film producer, educator, environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords. His productions include Chariots of Fire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Midnight Express and Memphis Belle. In 1982, he received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, and in 2006 he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Puttnam sat on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he was not principally a politician. In 2019 he was appointed chair to the select committee on democracy and digital technologies. The committee published its findings in its Digital Technology & the Resurrection of Trust report in June 2020.