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TIL Fred Fuchs wasn't some random guy who worked on the Bram Stoker's Dracula video game that was made fun of regularly by James Rolfe's character Angry Video Game Nerd, but is actually a television and film producer who helped make the movie as well as Godfather Part III, among other films.

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