Ulu Grosbard
Nacimiento : 1929-01-09, Antwerp, Belgium
Muerte : 2012-03-18
Historia
Ulu Grosbard (born 9 January 1929) is a Belgian-born, naturalized American theatre and film director and film producer.
Born in Antwerp, Grosbard emigrated to Havana with his family in 1942. In 1948, they moved to the United States, where he earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Chicago. He studied then at the Yale School of Drama for one year before joining the United States Army, and he became a naturalized citizen in 1954.
Grosbard gravitated towards theatre when he relocated to New York City in the early 1960s. After directing The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker off-Broadway, he earned his first Broadway credit with The Subject Was Roses, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 1964. That same year he won the Obie Award for Best Direction and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for an off-Broadway revival of the Arthur Miller play A View from the Bridge, for which Dustin Hoffman served as stage manager and assistant director.
Grosbard's additional Broadway credits include Miller's The Price; David Mamet's American Buffalo, which earned him Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations; Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb; and a revival of Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man.
In Hollywood, Grosbard worked as an assistant director on Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story, The Hustler, The Miracle Worker, and The Pawnbroker before helming the screen adaptation of The Subject Was Roses on his own. Additional screen credits include Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? and Straight Time, both with Dustin Hoffman; True Confessions and Falling in Love, both with Robert De Niro; Georgia for which he won the Grand Prix des Amériques at the Montréal World Film Festival; and The Deep End of the Ocean.
Grosbard has been married to actress Rose Gregorio since 1965.
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Himself
A brief overview of The Hustler's making and the players involved.
Director
Año 1988. Beth Cappadora es una fotógrafa felizmente casada con Pat, el dueño de un restaurante. El matrimonio vive en Madison con sus tres hijos. Un día, mientras están en un hotel con los niños, Ben, el más pequeño, desaparece, y a pesar de la búsqueda frenética que emprende la policía no consiguen encontrarlo. Nueve años más tarde, la familia, en principio ya recuperada del terrible suceso, vive en Chicago, donde Pat ha abierto un restaurante. Pero un día en su barrio conocen a un chico llamado Sam Karras que tiene un parecido asombroso con su hijo Ben.
Himself
This is a film about the making of Salaam Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf in Tehran and it’s eventual screening in Cannes Film Festival. Viewers are introduced to the personal and professional sides of Makhmalbaf and also to the uncontrollable passion for the cinema, held by the Iranian youth.
Producer
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to drugs and booze, and also to her own unwise choice in men. Finally, though, Sadie's Achilles heel is a rough, unlovely voice very different than her sister's crowd-pleasing singing.
Director
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to drugs and booze, and also to her own unwise choice in men. Finally, though, Sadie's Achilles heel is a rough, unlovely voice very different than her sister's crowd-pleasing singing.
Director
Un arquitecto y una diseñadora artística, ambos casados, se conocen casualmente en una librería mientras están comprando regalos de Navidad para sus respectivos cónyuges. Con el ajetreo y las prisas, tropiezan e intercambian los libros. Más tarde coinciden varias veces en el tren y se enamoran, pero tienen la sensación de que lo que están haciendo no está bien; en suma, se sienten tan culpables que deciden poner fin a su relación. Un año después, sin embargo, sus matrimonios han fracasado definitivamente y con las ideas mucho más claras reanudan su hermosa historia de amor.
Director
Monseñor Desmond Spellacy (De Niro), un brillante prelado católico, tiene un talento para recaudar fondos sólo comparable a su gran devoción. Cuando su hermano Tom (Duvall), un policía duro, descubre que el sospechoso del asesinato de una prostituta podría ser uno de los principales benefactores de la Iglesia, pide ayuda a su hermano para atraparlo. Al principio Desmond se debate entre su lealtad a la Iglesia y a su hermano, pero, finalmente, decide que es preciso averiguar la verdad sobre el caso.
Director
Tras pasar seis años en la cárcel, un joven que sale en libertad condicional se propone cambiar de vida, pero el policía que lo vigila sabotea sus buenas intenciones...
Producer
A hit pop songwriter, who cannot love himself or others, spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.
Director
A hit pop songwriter, who cannot love himself or others, spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.
Director
Un soldado regresa a casa de sus padres, un hogar con problemas... Tras el éxito en teatro de la obra "The Subject was Roses", nominada al Tony en 1964, Ulu Grosbard, reputado asistente de dirección de películas como "West Side Story" (1961), "Splendor in the Grass" (Esplendor en la hierba, 1961) o "El buscavidas" (The Hustler, 1961) se decide por dicha obra para realizar su ópera prima. (FILMAFFINITY)
Himself
This short focuses on Patricia Neal's return to motion pictures three years after she suffered a near-fatal stroke. We see her and the cast and crew at work in New York City on the feature film The Subject Was Roses (1968).
Assistant Director
Una familia contrata a Ana Sullivan para educar a Helen, una niña sorda y ciega. Un trauma infantil, un oscuro complejo de culpa, por la muerte de su hermano, impulsa a la maestra a redimirse mediante la educación de la niña. La incompetencia y la negligencia de los padres han hecho de Helen una niña mimada, incapaz de someterse a ninguna disciplina, y con la que toda comunicación parece imposible. La adolescente vive aislada en un mundo propio completamente ajeno a los demás. Sin embargo, Ana Sullivan conseguirá, con mucha paciencia y rigor, romper esa burbuja, ese aislamiento.
