Jerry Weintraub
Jerry Weintraub ( born September 26, 1937 in New York City ) is an American film producer.
Life
After high school he served in the United States Air Force. In the 1960s, he produced the first U.S. national tour of Elvis Presley. Subsequently he founded the company Concerts West. With this, he produced and presented tours of bands like Led Zeppelin and the Beach Boys. Later he founded the film production company Weintraub Entertainment Group.
Prior to his career in Hollywood, he was the manager of the singer John Denver. For this he also produced the mid-1970s a number of TV specials. In 1975 he produced his first feature film with Nashville, the government took over Robert Altman. It was followed by several TV productions, inter alia, two for the singer Neil Diamond. From the early 1980s he produced regularly feature films, including about the Karate Kid movie series and later Ocean's Eleven and its two sequels.
In 1991 was appointed to the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Jerry Weintraub by the then President of the United States George HW Bush. He held this job until the end of the 1990s.
1975 Jerry Weintraub was honored for the television production of An Evening with John Denver with an Emmy. In his honor, there is a star on the Walk of Fame. He was also previously nominated four times for the Golden Raspberry for the first time in 1980 for the film Cruising. The other nominees are from the 1990s, including for The Specialist.
He is married and father of four children since 1965.