Michael Gruskoff
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Film producer |
Michael Gruskoff is an American film producer.
Life and career
Born to a Jewish family,[1] Gruskoff started his career in the New York mailroom of the William Morris Agency, and then took a job with Creative Management Associates, where he represented Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Faye Dunaway, James Coburn, Steve McQueen, Peter Sellers, Al Ruddy, and Irwin Winkler.[2] Although Ned Tanen of Universal Pictures asked him to set up and run an independent film division, he instead accepted a three picture production contract. Working with Douglas Trumbull, Michael Cimino, Sam Shepard, and Steven Bochco, he independently developed three low budget scripts: The Last Movie, Silent Running, and Conquering Horse, a Sioux language script which never made it to film but was the precursor to Dances with Wolves.[2] In 1974, he produced Young Frankenstein, thanks to his earlier relationship with Mel Brooks, with whom he worked at William Morris, and Mike Medavoy, who he worked with at CMA.[2] In 1999, he was hired by Nick Wechsler and Keith Addis to work for their production company, Industry Entertainment, as an in-house producer and mentor to their junior producers including Geyer Kosinski, David Seltzer, Margaret Riley, Rosalie Swedlin, Julia Chasman, Marc Evans, and David Carmel.[3]
Gruskoff won a Cesar Award for the film Quest for Fire.[2]
Filmography
Producer
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References
- ^ Verini, Bob. Variety: "Secret lunch honors Ladd" Variety (September 27, 2007)
- ^ a b c d Aguilar, Carlos (June 2, 2014). "IndieWire: "Interview: Producer Michael Gruskoff on the Foreign Language Academy Award and International Hollywood"". IndieWire. Archived from the original on October 6, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
- ^ Fleming, Michael Variety: "Industry imports veteran Gruskoff - Management firm ramping production" Variety (April 23, 1999)
External links
- "The New Hollywood Podcast: Interview with Michael Gruskoff"
- Michael Gruskoff at IMDb
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- Fritz Lang (1976)
- Samuel Z. Arkoff (1977)
- Christopher Lee (1979)
- Gene Roddenberry (1980)
- William Shatner (1980)
- John Agar (1981)
- Ray Harryhausen (1982)
- Martin B. Cohen (1983)
- Vincent Price (1986)
- Leonard Nimoy (1987)
- Roger Corman (1988)
- Ray Walston (1990)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1992)
- David Lynch (1993)
- Alfred Hitchcock (1994)
- Steve Reeves (1994)
- Whit Bissell (1994)
- Joel Silver (1995)
- Richard Fleischer (1995)
- Sean Connery (1995)
- Wes Craven (1995)
- Albert R. Broccoli (1996)
- Edward R. Pressman (1996)
- Harrison Ford (1996)
- Dino De Laurentiis (1997)
- John Frankenheimer (1997)
- Sylvester Stallone (1997)
- James Coburn (1998)
- James Karen (1998)
- Michael Crichton (1998)
- Nathan Juran (1999)
- Dick Van Dyke (2000)
- George Barris (2000)
- Brian Grazer (2001)
- Robert Englund (2001)
- Drew Struzan (2002)
- Stan Lee (2002)
- Kurt Russell (2003)
- Sid and Marty Krofft (2003)
- Blake Edwards (2004)
- Stephen J. Cannell (2005)
- Tom Rothman (2005)
- Robert Halmi (2008)
- Lance Henriksen (2009)
- Irvin Kershner (2010)
- Bert Gordon (2011)
- Michael Biehn (2011)
- Frank Oz (2012)
- James Remar (2012)
- Jonathan Frakes (2013)
- Malcolm McDowell (2014)
- Nichelle Nichols (2016)
- Lee Majors (2017)
- Michael Gruskoff (2019/2020)
- Kathryn Leigh Scott (2021/2022)
- Jodie Foster (2022/2023)