Irwin Rosten

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Irwin Rosten (born September 10, 1924 in Brooklyn , New York City , † May 23, 2010 in Hollywood , California ) was an American film producer , director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Irwin Rosten was born in Brooklyn in 1924 to Russian and Polish immigrants. The family owned a local drug store. Rosten initially worked as a news story writer for the DuMont Television Network .

In 1954 he left New York and moved to Los Angeles , where he again wrote news and produced half-hour TV specials for the CBS subsidiary KNXT. His projects there included the documentary Thou Shalt Not Kill (1958), which dealt with the death penalty . He later moved to KTLA-TV Channel 5, a television station also based in Los Angeles. There he worked as a producer and writer of documentaries and TV specials. His work included Split Image (1963), a feature on a patient-monitored television program at Camarillo State Mental Hospital.

From the 1960s Rosten worked for the independent documentary film producer David L. Wolper . Several National Geographic Specials were created, including the Emmy- nominated episode Grizzly! (1967). Rosten also produced several episodes of the NBC documentary series Hollywood and the Stars .

Together with his long-term business partner Nicolas Noxon , Rosten founded a department for documentary films at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1967 . The Clark Gable documentary Dear Mr. Gable appeared as the first production the following year . For the 1969 documentary The Wolf Men about wolf hunting in North America, producer Rosten received an Oscar nomination. He achieved the same success in 1976 with the documentary The Incredible Machine , which visualized a journey through the human body with the help of technologies such as microphotography . EG Marshall spoke the texts . The Incredible Machine was very well received by viewers and achieved the highest ratings in PBS history to date . In his late creative phase, Rosten traveled the world, shooting National Geographic Specials in Japan and Russia, among others.

Irwin Rosten died in his Hollywood apartment at the age of 85. He left behind his wife Marilyn Ryan and son Peter Rosten, who also worked as a film producer.

Awards

  • 1970 : Oscar nomination in the category " Best Documentary " for The Wolf Men
  • 1976 : Oscar nomination in the category "Best Documentary" for The Incredible Machine

Filmography (selection)

  • 1958: Thou shalt not kill (TV documentary)
  • 1963: Biography (TV documentary series), episode Fidel Castro
  • 1963–1964: Hollywood and the Stars (TV series, 7 episodes)
  • 1965: Japan: A New Dawn Over Asia - Japan in the 20th Century (TV documentary)
  • 1965: Korea: The 38th Parallel (TV documentary)
  • 1965–1966: Time-Life Specials: The March of Time (TV documentary series, 2 episodes)
  • 1966: National Geographic Specials (TV documentary series) - The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  • 1967: National Geographic Specials - Grizzly!
  • 1968: Dear Mr. Gable (Documentary) (Executive Producer)
  • 1969: The Wolf Men (documentary)
  • 1970: Kifaru ... The Black Rhino (documentary)
  • 1971: The Enchanted Years (Documentary) (Executive Producer)
  • 1971: Wildfire! (Documentary) (Executive Producer)
  • 1972: Hollywood: The Dream Factory (TV documentary)
  • 1974: The Mating of Animals ( Birds Do It, Bees Do It , documentary)
  • 1975: The Incredible Machine (documentary)
  • 1977: National Geographic Specials - The Volga
  • 1978: National Geographic Specials - The Great Whales
  • 1980: National Geographic Specials - National Parks
  • 1982: The Thames (documentary)
  • 1990: Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn (short documentary)
  • 1999: Celebrate the Century (TV documentary mini-series)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Valerie J. Nelson: Irwin Rosten dies at 85; documentary filmmaker. In Los Angeles Times May 30, 2010, accessed March 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ Multihyphenate wrote, directed 'Incredible Machine In Variety May 27, 2010, accessed March 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Emmy-winning documentarian Irwin Rosten Dies emmys.com, accessed March 1, 2014.
  4. ↑ Bob Fisher: IDA PIONEER AWARD - Bringing Wildlife to the Small Screen: Nicolas Noxon. documentary.org, accessed March 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Rust, Irwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, director, and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2010
Place of death Hollywood , California