Barrie M. Osborne

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Barrie M. Osborne , ONZM (born February 7, 1944 in New York City ) is an American film producer and film director .

Life

Barrie M. Osborne was born in New York City to jeweler William Osborne and Hertha Schwarz. During his college days at Carleton College , he played hockey and sink bass in a student band . After graduating in Sociology in 1966 , he joined the United States Army Corps of Engineers during the Vietnam War and worked for four years in Korea , where he was promoted to First Lieutenant, which is roughly the German rank of first lieutenant . After his military service, he went back to New York in 1970, where he started in a smaller film production company that mainly shot commercials . He started there as a production assistant before he was given responsibility for the production budget by the company's founder. From there Osborne was able to participate in a training program of the Directors Guild of America , where he assisted Francis Ford Coppola in The Godfather - Part II , Sydney Pollack in The Three Days of the Condor and Alan J. Pakula in The Untouchables in directing.

Although Osborne worked as an assistant director in other films such as American Hot Wax and The China Syndrome , it was the production behind the camera that challenged his skills and to which he devoted himself more and more. So he was in 1976 for the TV series Kojak - Kojak in four episodes as a manager , before he first time in 1981 with the thriller To the bitter end served as a producer.

Most recently, Osborne was talking about a possible film adaptation of the Prophet Mohammed . With the capital of the media company Alnoor Holdings from Qatar , a budget of between 150 million and 200 million US dollars was to be made available.

Since July 30, 1969, Osborne was married to Micha Yun. He lives in Seatoun, Wellington , New Zealand with his current partner Carol Kim, with whom he has a daughter, Danielle Kim .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Barrie M. Osborne on filmreference.com , accessed July 14, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c d Barrie M. Osborne (PDF; 520 kB) on carleton.edu , accessed on July 14, 2011
  3. ↑ Russ Fischer: Seriously? Matrix Producer Wants to Make a $ 150m Biopic of Islamic Prophet Muhammad on Slashfilm.com November 3, 2009, accessed July 14, 2011
  4. ↑ Xan Brooks: Matrix producer plans Muhammad biopic on guardian.co.uk of November 2, 2009 (English), accessed July 14, 2011
  5. ↑ Barrie M. Osborne '66 at carleton.edu , accessed July 14, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Osborne, Barrie M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States