Stuart Cornfeld

Stuart Cornfeld is a film producer, business partner with Ben Stiller in the company, Red Hour Productions, and an actor. His hometown is Tarzana, California, and he attended the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1970s. The appearance and personality of Les Grossman, the hotheaded and foul-mouthed Hollywood producer played by Tom Cruise in Stiller's film "Tropic Thunder", is reportedly based in part on Cornfeld. [Casablanca, Ed, [http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_truth/b24412_cruises_cameo_shocker8212based_on_real.html "Cruise's Cameo Shocker--Based on a Real Person!"] . "The Awful Truth," E! Online, August 19, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-08-20.]

His credits include:

"(as producer)"
*"The Elephant Man"
*"The Fly"
*"Starsky & Hutch"
*""
*"Duplex"
*"Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny"
*"Moving"
*"Kafka"
*"Zoolander"
*"Blades of Glory"
*"Tropic Thunder"

"(as actor)"
*"Old School"
*"Fast Times at Ridgemont High"

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