Tamara Asseyev

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Tamara Constance Asseyev (born February 4, 1943 ) is an American film producer and author.

Live and act

Tamara Asseyev grew up in California . She first attended Mayfield School and, until 1961, South Pasadena High School. She then studied theater at Marymount College (later merged into Loyola Marymount University ) and graduated in 1965 with a BA. She then obtained her Masters degree from the University of California, Los Angeles . Her thesis dealt with the Los Angeles Music Center , a cultural institution to which she later remained connected, including as a member of the Amazing Blue Ribbon association .

In 1966, Asseyev appeared in three episodes of the TV comedy series My Three Sons as an actress in front of the camera, but then turned permanently to film production. Her career began as assistant to producer Roger Corman . Together they worked on eight films, which include The Trip and Chicago Massacre gehörten.1968 Aseyev produced a five-minute prologue for the horror movie The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), since the film is too short for the intended TV program slot at ABC was .

Corman’s New World Pictures appeared as a distributor on some of Asseyev’s later productions . In this way she met the director of the film distributor Alexandra Rose . The two decided to work together as producers, starting with the comedy Drive-In in 1976 . The climax of their collaboration and greatest success as a producer was the drama Norma Rae - A Woman Is Her Husband , for which they were awarded an Oscar nomination.

In 1984 Asseyev founded her own film production company, Tamara Asseyev Productions, in Los Angeles. So she produced (mainly as an executive producer ) in the 1980s some television films such as The Double Life of Kathy McCormick and Deadly Galaxie .

Asseyev has also published three humorous, illustrated books with co-author Elizabeth Nickles , in which cats are the protagonists. She also worked as a talent scout for EP Dutton. She is committed to the promotion of the arts, including a founding member of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles .

Publications (selection)

  • The development of the Los Angeles Music Center project. Thesis (MA), UCLA, 1968.
  • with Elizabeth Nickles: Always kiss with your whiskers: love advice from my cat. Pocket Books, New York 1991, ISBN 0-671-74983-8 .
  • with Elizabeth Nickles: Heavy petting: romantic advice from my cat. Hyperion, New York 1994, ISBN 1-562-82799-5 .
  • with Elizabeth Nickles: First cat, second term. Capra Press in cooperation with Feline Fine Editions, Santa Barbara 1997, ISBN 0-884-96421-3 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1967: The Trip
  • 1967: Chicago Massacre ( The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre )
  • 1967: Rebels in Leather Jackets ( The Devil's Angels )
  • 1967: The Wild Racers
  • 1968: Prologue to The Pit and the Pendulum ( The Pit and the Pendulum )
  • 1968: Moving targets ( targets )
  • 1968: Paddy
  • 1970: The Dunwich Horror
  • 1972: Sweet Kill
  • 1976: Drive-In
  • 1978: I Wanna Hold Your Hand
  • 1978: Decision Day ( Big Wednesday )
  • 1979: Norma Rae - A woman is her husband ( Norma Rae )
  • 1986: Dead or Alive (TV movie) ( The Penalty Phase )
  • 1987: The Promise of Elmer Jackson (TV Movie) ( After the Promise )
  • 1988: Afrika, mein Leben (TV movie) ( Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun )
  • 1988: The Double Life of Kathy McCormick (Movie made for TV) ( The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick )
  • 1989: The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (TV movie)
  • 1989: Deadly Galaxy (TV movie) ( Murder on the Moon )
  • 1995: A Month by the Lake ( A Month by the Lake )

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Summer's the Time for Going Places In: Independent Star-News , Pasadena, July 24, 1960, p. 31.
  2. ↑ a b Tamara Asseyev Biography filmreference.com, accessed January 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. lmu.edu @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lmu.edu
personal data
SURNAME Asseyev, Tamara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Asseyev, Tamara Constance (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1943