Martin Rosen (director)

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Martin Rosen (* 1936 ) is an American film director , producer and screenwriter .

Life

Rosen originally worked as a theater agent and talent scout before moving to the UK with his wife .

Rosen began working as a producer in 1968 with the Canadian feature film A Great Big Thing . In 1969 he co-produced Ken Russell's film adaptation of DH Lawrence's Loving Women , which won an Oscar for actress Glenda Jackson and cameraman Billy Williams .

In 1978 he was director, producer and screenwriter for the Richard Adams adaptation Down by the River . In 1982 another Richard Adams film followed, The Dogs Are Going .

In 1985 he produced the film Threatening Whispers with Laura Dern and Treat Williams , for which Joyce Carol Oates wrote the script. The film won the Jury Grand Prize at the Sundance Film Festival . In 1987 he directed the drama Stacking .

Rosen also worked as a theater producer . In 1971 he was the producer of the world premiere of the play Moonchildren by Michael Weller at the Royal Court Theater in London . He also produced several stage versions of Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography The Woman Warrior in the 1994/1995 season , including at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, the Huntington Theater Company in Boston and the Doolittle Theater in Los Angeles .

Rosen is married to Elisabeth Payne Rosen , a writer and ordained deacon of the Episcopal Church .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/director-of-seminal-animated-film-watership-down-to-come-to-singapore-for

  1. ↑ Martin Rosen Biography ((?) -) Filmreference.com states that the citizenship is US . There are no reliable sources for the original statement of British citizenship in the first version of de: wikipedia.
  2. ↑ How the music score for the 1978 feature film Watership Down came together : ".... the film's American producer, Martin Rosen"
  3. ↑ New York Magazine December 18, 1978 issue (excerpts from Google Books )
  4. ↑ The Ahmanson Takes a More Adventurous Path in: Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1994
  5. ↑ About Elisabeth Payne Rosen Official Website
personal data
SURNAME Rosen, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1936