Name: Jason Ferus Blum Born: February 20, 1969 Occupation: Producer Jason Blum is an American film producer best known for turning low-budget films into box office smashes. His most popular films include Paranormal Activity, The Purge, and Insidious. Blum’s film Whiplash was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. Blum has worked in the industry since 1995 and producer […]
Name: Christian Peter Coulson Born: October 3, 1978 Occupation: Actor Christian Coulson is best known for his role in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but unlike many of the young actors that got their start in the film series, he has not yet earned the fame and fan adoration of an Emma Watson or Daniel Radcliffe. In part, […]
Name: Robert Lorenz Born: Chicago, Illinois Occupation: Producer, Assistant Director, Director Robert Lorenz is an American television and movie producer who was among those nominated as a producer for American Sniper for a 2015 Academy Award. The film did not win, but it was the third time he has shared a nomination with Clint Eastwood. He was also nominated for […]
Name: David Lancaster Born: (We’re not sure yet. Do you know?) Occupation: Producer, Assistant Director David Lancaster was a virtual unknown in Hollywood before the 2015 awards season. He had worked as an assistant director on the critically-acclaimed movie “Drive,” but had no other movie credits before producing two pictures nominated for the American Film Institute’s Movie of the Year. […]
Name: Timothy “Tim” Bevan Born: December 20, 1957 Occupation: Producer, Executive Producer New Zealander Timothy “Tim” Bevan might not be a household name, but chances are you’ve not only seen, but also loved at least one of the movies he has produced in the last thirty years. Bevan has been involved with making more than 100 films including Bridget Jones’ […]
Name: Nora Grossman Born: (We aren’t sure yet. Do you know?) Occupation: Producer Twenty-six-year old Nora Grossman was unemployed in 2009 when she first heard the story of Alan Turing, a British code breaker who committed suicide in the 1950s after being persecuted because he was gay. Grossman had worked extensively in Hollywood on films and television since graduating from […]
Name: Clinton “Clint” Eastwood Jr. Born: Mary 31, 1930 Occupation: Actor, Director, Politician, Musician Clinton “Clint” Eastwood Jr. dropped out of Los Angeles City College to pursue a career in acting, but the native Californian had primarily B movie roles until landing a part in the television Western “Rawhide” in 1959. Westerns would be very good to Eastwood over the […]
Name: Bradley Cooper Born: January 5, 1975 Occupation: Actor, Producer In the early days of his career, Bradley Cooper was typecast as a pretty boy and being named People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” in 2011 certainly did very little to dissuade casting directors of that idea, but with four Oscar nominations under his belt Cooper is proving he’s more than […]
