Howard Rosenman
Zvi Howard Rosenman (born February 1, 1945 in Brownsville , New York City ) is an American film producer , screenwriter and actor .
life and career
Howard Rosenman comes from a family of Ashkenazi Jews who lived in Jerusalem for a long time but emigrated to the USA because of the persecution of the Jews in the 1920s. He grew up in New York and initially took up a medical degree, in the 1967 Six Day War he was a medic with the Israel Defense Forces . Back in New York, his friend and mentor Leonard Bernstein persuaded him to get into show business. He had one of his first jobs as a personal assistant to Katharine Hepburn in André Previn's musical Coco . After working as an assistant director on Broadway and as a producer of commercials, he produced several television films from the early 1970s.
He got into the cinema in 1976 as the producer of the musical drama Sparkle , for which he also wrote the script together with Joel Schumacher . With filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman , he produced a number of films about AIDS and homosexuality in the 1980s and 1990s , including the Oscar- winning documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt . He was also co-president of production at Sandollar , Dolly Parton's production company, from 1985 to 1992 . Here he produced the romantic comedy Father of the Bride and the horror comedy Buffy - The Vampire Killer . He was then head of production at Brillstein-Gray Entertainment from 1992 to 1994 , before founding his own production company, Howard Rosenman Productions . This produced, among others, Family Man (2000) with Nicolas Cage and You Kill Me (2007) with Ben Kingsley .
He made a late acting debut in 2008 as David Goodstein, founder of The Advocate magazine , in the Oscar-winning biopic Milk alongside Sean Penn .
Filmography (selection)
As a producer
- 1973: Isn't It Shocking? (TV movie)
- 1976: Sparkle (also screenplay)
- 1979: What, you don't want to? (The Main Event)
- 1980: The strong will (Resurrection)
- 1989: Roadhome (Lost Angels)
- 1989: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (documentary)
- 1991: The Tall Blonde with the Black Foot (True Identity)
- 1991: Father of the Bride (Father of the Bride)
- 1992: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- 1992: A Stranger Among Us (A Stranger Among Us)
- 1995: The Celluloid Closet (documentary)
- 2000: Paragraph 175 (documentary film)
- 2000: Family Man (The Family Man)
- 2004: Noel
- 2007: You Kill Me
- 2007: Breakfast with Scot (Breakfast with Scot)
- 2012: Sparkle (remake)
- 2017: Call Me by Your Name
As an actor
- 2008: Milk
- 2011: Coming & Going
Web links
- Howard Rosenman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Howard Rosenman (website). Retrieved March 15, 2018 (American English).
- ^ Matthew Gilbert: He made it in Hollywood . In: Boston.com . April 10, 2010 ( boston.com [accessed March 15, 2018]).
- ^ First Act . In: Los Angeles Times . ISSN 0458-3035 ( latimes.com [accessed March 15, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosenman, Howard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenman, Zvi Howard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film producer, screenwriter, and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brownsville , New York City |