Donald Kushner

Donald Kushner
Born	March 2, 1945 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Occupation	Film Producer, TV Producer, Theater Producer
Known for	Tron and The Adventures of Pinocchio

Donald Kushner (born March 2, 1945) is an American producer who has worked with animation, live-action and theater productions.

He attended high school in Providence, received an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University in 1971 and a Boston University law degree in 1973. He then studied art for one year in Florence, Italy.

Upon returning to Boston he set up a law practice which included a number of show business clients. This led to the opportunity to produce plays for the Boston stage, among them P.S. Your Cat Is Dead and the first theatrical adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano.

In 1977, Kushner formed a partnership with filmmaker Steven Lisberger. In 1978 the pair moved to the West Coast, where they produced the 90-minute animated film Animalympics for NBC which was aborted. After Animalympics, he conceived and produced his first live-action movie, Tron for Walt Disney Pictures.

After Tron, Kushner, along with Glen A. Larson and Peter Locke, also produced the 80's TV series Automan, about a holographic crime figher, that began in December 1983 and ended in August 1984. This series used similar effects to those seen in Tron.

He and his partner, Peter Locke, founded The Kushner-Locke Company in the 1980s and continues to produces movies and television shows.

He was credited as executive producer for the 2010 sequel to Tron, Tron: Legacy.

External links

• Donald Kushner at the Internet Movie Database

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Date of birth	March 2, 1945
Place of birth	Providence, Rhode Island
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