Dan E. Weisburd

Daniel E. Weisburd (born November 5, 1933 in Minnesota , United States - † November 4, 2019 in Toluca Lake , California ) was an American documentary filmmaker and all-round filmmaker (director, producer, screenwriter, composer).

Life

Dan E. Weisburd moved to Los Angeles with his parents and a younger brother in the late 1940s . There he attended Dorsey High until he graduated from school in 1951. Weisburd then studied at UCLA and graduated in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts. After serving in the US Air Force , Dan Weisburd began his film and television career. Despite a narrow output that proves his work in many areas of filmmaking, Weisburd was even able to receive an Oscar nomination in the category Best Short Documentary for his production A Way Out of the Wilderness in 1969 . In this half-hour documentary, Weisburd traced the activities undertaken by the Plymouth State Home and Training School in Northville / Michigan on how to free mentally handicapped children from their isolation, here called “wilderness”, and into the lives of the “normal people” , the general public, can integrate.

Weisburd got the inspiration on the subject from the fact that his own son David was diagnosed with schizophrenia . This fact also led the filmmaker to deal intensively with questions of mental and psychological illnesses and to head a state “Task Force for the Seriously Mentally Ill” founded on this complex of questions, which eventually became the Integrated Service Agencies in California emerged. Another cinematic work of importance that Weisburd produced was the documentary series Another Kind of Valor , which was intended to document the challenges that families of war veterans have to face after the return of their relatives serving as soldiers.

Filmography

• 1960: Murder dinosaur ( Dinosaurus! ) (Co-script)
• 1965: Handle With Care (short documentary, director)
• 1967: Combat (TV series, part of an episode)
• 1968: A Way Out of the Wilderness (short documentary; director, screenplay, production)
• 1972: The Most Important Person (short films; direction, screenplay, composition)
• 1973: The Kingdom of Could bei You (short films; screenplay, composition)
• 1976: Executive Suite (TV series, script for an episode)
• 1978: Laverne & Shirley (TV series, screenplay for an episode)
• 1980: Today is for the Championship (short documentary; direction, production)

Web links

• Dan E. Weisburd in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Obituary in the Los Angeles Times from 8./9. November 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IMDb incorrectly mentions the year 1934