Fred Weintraub

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Fred Weintraub (born April 27, 1928 in the Bronx , New York City , United States , † March 5, 2017 in Pacific Palisades , California , United States) was an American nightclub entrepreneur , film producer and screenwriter .

Life

Born and raised in the New York borough of Bronx, the son of a Jewish toy and stroller store operator attended William Howard Taft High School and Fieldston School. This was followed by studies at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania . After seeing Federico Fellini's La Strada (1954) in the cinema, Weintraub was captivated by the cinema from then on. Nevertheless, in order to support himself and his family, he first had to take on other jobs; Among other things, he hired himself as a piano player in a brothel and ran a fishing boat in Cuba.

With the nightclub The Bitter End Coffeehouse he opened his first major venture in 1961. In this cultural meeting place in the New York district of Greenwich Village, he has since paved the careers of numerous musicians and entertainers who would later become world-famous: Bob Dylan , Woody Allen , Lenny Bruce , Bill Cosby , Randy Newman , Nina Simone as well as Peter, Paul and Mary made her first or early appearances here. In 1974 Weintraub sold The Bitter End .

As early as the late 1960s, Weintraub made the leap into the television business and created another professional pillar with film production. Since 1972 he has been working as a film producer. The majority of his works were straightforward, rough (and mostly not particularly demanding) action and gangster films, multiple B-pictures . Weintraub also worked occasionally at the beginning of his career with stars of the industry such as Bruce Lee , George C. Scott , Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen and wrote several scripts. In the course of the early 2000s, Fred Weintraub gradually withdrew from the production business. Most recently he suffered from Parkinson's disease .

Filmography

  • 1972: Vengeance is mine (Rage)
  • 1973: Enter the Dragon (Enter the Dragon)
  • 1974: Free Ride into the Hereafter (Black Belt Jones)
  • 1974: Chicago Poker (Truck Turner)
  • 1974: The Secret of the 7 Golden Needles
  • 1975: Vigilante Justice (Trial by Combat)
  • 1975: New York no longer responds (The Ultimate Warrior)
  • 1976: Hot Potato
  • 1976: It's Showtime (documentary)
  • 1977: The Pack
  • 1978: Jaguar is alive! (Jaguar Lives!)
  • 1979: Me, Tom Horn (Tom Horn)
  • 1979: The Big Brawl (The Big Brawl)
  • 1981: Force: Five
  • 1982: Hell Hunt to the End of the World (High Road to China)
  • 1985: Out of Control
  • 1985: Asia Mission (Gymkata)
  • 1986: Ladies Club (The Women's Club)
  • 1988: Guilt and Curse (My Father, My Son)
  • 1990: The Strength of Power (A Show of Force)
  • 1990: China O'Brien
  • 1991: China O'Brien II
  • 1991: Born to Ride
  • 1992: Death in the Eyes (Gypsy Eyes)
  • 1993: Trouble Bound
  • 1993: Bruce Lee: Curse of the Dragon
  • 1994: Backstreet Justine - Tough and incorruptible (Backstreet Justice)
  • 1995: Triplecross - delivered to the knife (Triplecross)
  • 1995: Under the Gun
  • 1996: In the Eye of the Hurricane (Undertow)
  • 1995–97: Playboy's Really Naked Truth (TV series)
  • 1999: The Devil's Arithmetic
  • 2000: Perilous
  • 2001: Amazons and Gladiators
  • 2002: Warrior Angels
  • 2003: Dream Warrior
  • 2004: Lady Musketeer - All for One (La Femme Musketeer)

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1991, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1991, p. 338

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personal data
SURNAME Weintraub, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH 5th March 2017
Place of death Pacific Palisades , California