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Roger Birnbaum (born November 14, 1950) is an American film, television, and executive producer.[2][3]
Roger Birnbaum | |
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Born | [1] Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S. | November 14, 1950
Occupation(s) | Film and television producer, film and television executive |
Spouse(s) | Pamela West (divorced) Leslie Lopez (m. 2013–2019) |
Partner | Teri Garr (1979–1983) |
Children | 1 |
Birnbaum was born to a Jewish family[4] in Teaneck, New Jersey,[5] the son of Arlene (née Steinlauf) and Norman Birnbaum.[4] His father was a World War II veteran who went into the embroidery business with his father after the war, and used his profits in 1967 to build the Stonehenge, a residential building in New Jersey.[4] Birnbaum graduated from Teaneck High School in 1968[5] and attended the University of Denver.[6]
Birnbaum started out in the music industry at Arista Records working under Clive Davis. A&M Records brought him out to Hollywood becoming its West Coast A&R executive, where he switch over to film. While working at film, he was appointed president of Fair Dinkum Productions, which was headed by Henry Winkler, who supervised Young Sherlock Holmes and The Sure Thing.[7] He worked at United Artists, Guber-Peters Co. (president in 1989) then 20th Century Fox.[8] He was president of production at 20th Century Fox by 1992.[9]
Caravan Pictures was founded by Birnbaum and Joe Roth as a production company at Disney in 1992 to fill the Disney Studios' then-yearly 50 to 60 production and distribution slots.[9] Birnbaum previously left Caravan at the prompting of then Disney studio chief Joe Roth as Disney was cutting its yearly production output and shutting down Caravan. In August 1998, Birnbaum with Gary Barber, former vice chairman and COO of Morgan Creek Productions founded Spyglass Entertainment.[10]
On December 20, 2010, after the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had emerged from bankruptcy, Birnbaum and Barber became co-Chairs and co-CEOs of the studio.[11][12] On October 3, 2012, Birnbaum announced his intention to exit his role as an MGM executive and return to "hands-on" producing. He will remain with the studio to produce films on "an exclusive basis".[13]
He has since founded three production companies, Pin High Productions,[8] Cave 76 Productions[14] and with Eli Roth, Arts District Entertainment.[15] By September 8, 2016, his exclusivity with MGM had ended.[8]
His first wife was Pamela West;[16] they had one daughter Claire Birnbaum Block (born 1987).[17] He married then-restaurant guest relations manager Leslie Lopez in 2013.[18][19] Birnbaum and Lopez divorced in 2019. He was previously in a seven-year relationship with actress Teri Garr.[20]
Producer
Executive producer
Special thanks
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1998 | Making Sandwiches | Hollywood Type | Short film |
Year | Title | Notes |
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1984 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | |
1985 | Happily Ever After | TV movie |
1987 | Bay Coven | |
1997 | Angels in the Endzone | |
Flash | ||
2000 | Angels in the Infield | |
2003 | Miracles | |
Criminology 101 | TV movie | |
2004 | The Ranch | |
Weekends |
Year | Title | Notes |
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1983 | Ryan's Four | |
When Your Lover Leaves | TV movie | |
1985 | Scandal Sheet | |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1979 | Music for UNICEF Concert | Executive in charge of production | TV special |
The Bee Gees Special |
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