- Barney Rosenzweig
Barney Rosenzweig (born
December 23 ,1937 inLos Angeles, California ) is anEmmy Award andGolden Globe Award winning television producer. He is best known for producing the 1980s television seriesCagney & Lacey .In 1991 he marriedSharon Gless ,Cagney & Lacey lead and multi-Emmy Award winning actress.Biography
He began his show business career as an
MGM office boy in 1959, and rose to become one of television's most honored producers, winning twoEmmy Award 's for best television series (Cagney & Lacey ), and aGolden Globe Award for BestMini-Series (John Steinbeck 'sEast of Eden ).He is the recipient of citations from the Congress of the United States, the State of California, the cities of Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, multiple women's groups throughout the country, and from the
University of Southern California , where he now serves on the prestigious Board of Councilors of the "School of Cinematic Arts".In 1981, with
Cagney & Lacey , he initiated the current trend for placing offices and production facilities in warehouses situated throughout theLos Angeles Basin , rejecting conventional studio facilities and their built-in high overhead. Then, with theCBS dramatic series "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill ", Rosenzweig went the additional step and provided his own deficit financing, eliminating any middleman between his unit and the network.Rosenzweig has produced hundreds of hours of prime time television beyond the aforementioned multiple award-winning series and mini-series, including the successful pilot of "
American Dream ", a dozen episodes of the premiere season ofCharlie's Angels , the "Daniel Boone" series forNBC (three seasons), multiple pilots and movies for television, and the critically acclaimed, and award-winning hour family dramas, "Christy" for CBS and "Twice in a Lifetime" for thePax Network . He most recently took a chance on Broadway, co-producing the audience-pleasing Elvis Presley homage, "All Shook Up", and now has ventured into the world of publishing with his memoir, "Cagney & Lacey....and Me".Other honors awarded Rosenzweig's work include the
ACLU "Bill of Rights Award", theHumanitas Prize , theScott Newman Award , theChristopher Award , a special Luminas from "Women in Film", as well as citations and salutes from the "National Commission of Working Women", theMuseum of Television and Radio , theNational Organization for Women (NOW), the "Good Guy Award" from the "National Women's Political Caucus" and the "Award of Merit" from theUniversity of Southern California as one of the University's "outstanding alumni".Rosenzweig received his degree in Political Science at the University of Southern California (1959), where he has established a "Women in Film Foundation Cagney & Lacey Scholarship". Other philanthropies include a two-year term in Los Angeles as Chairman of the Entertainment Division of the
United Jewish Fund , and as Chairperson of the "President's Council of the American Lung Association".Bibliography
"Cagney & Lacey...and Me" (2007)
External links
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* [http://www.cagneyandlacey.com/index.aspx The official Cagney & Lacey website]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0595411932/ "Cagney & Lacey...and Me" on Amazon.com]
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