Stuart Rosenberg

Stuart Rosenberg

Nascimento : 1927-08-11, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 2007-03-15

História

Stuart Rosenberg was an American film and television director whose notable works included the movies Cool Hand Luke (1967), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979), and The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984). He was noted for his work with actor Paul Newman. Rosenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Sara (née Kaminsky) and David Rosenberg. He studied Irish literature at New York University in Manhattan, and began working as an apprentice film editor while in graduate school. After advancing to film editor, he then transitioned into directing with episodes of the syndicated TV series Decoy (1957–59). It was the first police series on American television built around a female protagonist. Over the next two years, Rosenberg directed 15 episodes of the ABC police-detective series Naked City, also shot in New York City. Fifteen episodes of The Untouchables followed, eight of the anthology series Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, five of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and three of The Twilight Zone, along with episodes of Adventures in Paradise, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Ben Casey, Rawhide with Clint Eastwood, and Falk's The Trials of O'Brien, among other shows. He won a 1963 Emmy Award for directing "The Madman", one of his 19 episodes of the courtroom drama The Defenders. Following the Lutheran-financed U.S.-German co-production Question 7 (1961), filmed in West Berlin, Germany, Rosenberg shot the 1965 TV-movie, Memorandum for a Spy and the 1966 telefilm Fame Is the Name of the Game before making his major-studio debut with the Paul Newman hit Cool Hand Luke (1967). Rosenberg had come across Donn Pearce's chain gang novel and developed the film with actor Jack Lemmon's production company, Jalem. Years later, Rosenberg would replace Bob Rafelson on another prison movie, Brubaker (1980) starring Robert Redford. Other Rosenberg films include The April Fools (1969), with French actress Catherine Deneuve in her American debut opposite Jack Lemmon; the Newman movies WUSA (1970), Pocket Money (1972) and The Drowning Pool (1975); the Walter Matthau police-detective thriller The Laughing Policeman (1973); the Charles Bronson action picture Love and Bullets (1979); and another action movie Let's Get Harry (1986), for which Rosenberg used the Directors Guild of America pseudonym Alan Smithee. He was famous for straight dramas and, especially, crime films. The most acclaimed movie he did after 'Cool Hand Luke' was The Pope of Greenwich Village with Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, and Daryl Hannah. He made his last film, the independent drama My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, in 1991. In 1993, Rosenberg became a teacher at the American Film Institute. Among his students were those who would go on to make names for themselves: Todd Field, Darren Aronofsky, Mark Waters, Scott Silver, Doug Ellin and Rob Schmidt. Rosenberg died in 2007 of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was survived by his wife, Margot Pohoryles, whom he had met at NYU; son Benjamin Rosenberg, a first assistant director; as well as four grandchildren. His students' films The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Alphabet Killer, and The Wrestler that were released in 2008 were dedicated in memory of him.

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Stuart Rosenberg

Filmes

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Director
H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.
Resgate Infernal
Director
Quando Harry é seqüestrado por terrorristas sul-americanos e o governo americano decide lavar as mãos, sua família contrata os serviços de um mercenário para resgatá-lo.
Nos Calcanhares da Máfia
Director
Charlie e seu problemático primo Paulie decidem roubar 150 mil dólares afim de apostar numa corrida de cavalos. É que Paulie garante que tem uma informação quentíssima do páreo. Mas as consequências desse roubo são terríveis. O dinheiro pertence à máfia e ao corrupto departamento de polícia de Nova york.
Brubaker
Director
Na prisão sulista de Wakefield, Henry Brubaker, o novo diretor, chega disfarçado de prisioneiro e assim convive com os detentos, podendo apurar livremente todos os tipos de corrupções e ilegalidades que imperam na instituição. Quando ele se revela encontra uma oposição velada, pois suas idéias reformistas contrariam vários interesses políticos e financeiros.
Terror em Amityville
Director
Horror em Amityville: Após se mudarem para uma casa onde aconteceram terríveis assassinatos de uma mesma família, George, Kathy e seus filhos passam a viver uma forte experiência sobrenatural. As forças diabólicas que ali habitam perturbam toda a família durante 28 dias. No 28° dia, eles decidem tomar uma atitude.
Amor e Balas
Director
Charlie Congers é um policial escolhido pelo governo dos Estados Unidos para ir até a Suíça capturar a bela amante de um chefão do crime. Mas seus planos começam a sair errado quando, durante sua fuga, uma forte atração começa a tomar conta deles, criando laços que irão atrapalhar a missão. Perseguidos por toda a Europa, eles terão que fugir de redes de intrigas políticas e de várias outras ameaças.
A Viagem dos Condenados
Director
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
A Piscina Mortal
Director
Um detetive particular da cidade grande viaja para o sul profundo para ajudar uma velha namorada que está preocupada que o marido descubra que ela está traindo ele.
Matança em São Francisco
Producer
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.
Matança em São Francisco
Screenplay
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.
Matança em São Francisco
Director
When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case.
Meu Nome é Jim Kane
Director
Vaqueiro endividado e amigo estão levando novilhos do México para o Texas. O trabalho que eles pensavam ser fácil vai se complicando aos poucos, deixando o vaqueiro, de sangue quente, enfurecido.
A Sala dos Espelhos
Director
Uma estação de rádio no sul dos Estados Unidos torna-se um ponto central para uma conspiração de direita. Rheinhardt, um cínico vagabundo, consegue emprego como locutor de extrema-direita na estação de rádio WUSA em Nova Orleans. Rheinhardt se contenta em transmitir a postura editorial reacionária no ar, apesar de não concordar com o texto. Rheinhardt encontra o seu desprendimento cínico desafiado por uma amiga, Geraldine, e por Rainey, um vizinho incomodado e idealista que se torna consciente do propósito sinistro e disfarçado da WUSA. E quando os eventos começam a sair fora do controle, Rheinhardt conclui que deve tomar uma posição.
Move
Director
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
Um Dia em Duas Vidas
Director
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married — to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more attracted to each other, so that when Catherine announces she intends to leave her husband and return to Paris Howard asks to go along too.
Rebeldia Indomável
Director
Prisioneiro durão enfrenta a todos da prisão e se recusa a ser quebrado, escapando e sendo preso novamente mais de duas vezes.
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Director
A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.
A Small Rebellion
Director
An angry young man of the theatre, who has written a play that could be a hit, if actress Sara Lescaut agrees to play the lead. Kolinos, however, is determined not to alter one word of his script to make it a more commercial vehicle.
Asylum for a Spy
Director
A spy wants to "come in from the cold" since his last assignment resulted in the death of two innocent people. But the service cannot let a man quit.
Calhoun
Director
Unaired pilot for a drama/adventure series about a county agent.
Question 7
Director
Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes.
Assassinato S.A.
Director
Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hit man Reles.
Escape to Sonoita
Director
Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker in the dry desert, leaving the occupants and a female victim behind to die.
Harper Days are Here Again
Himself
Promotional behind-the-scenes look at 'The Drowning Pool' (1975).