Martin Rosen (director)
Martin Rosen (* in the 20th century) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
Life
Roses originally worked as a theater agent and talent scout, before he moved with his wife to the UK.
Rosen began his work as a producer in 1968 with the Canadian feature film A Great Big Thing. In 1969 he was co- producer Ken Russell's film adaptation of the novel Women in Love by DH Lawrence, in which the actress Glenda Jackson and the cameraman Billy Williams were honored with an Oscar.
In 1978, he was director, producer and screenwriter in the Richard Adams adaptation Down by the river. 1982 was followed by another Richard Adams filming, the dogs are on the loose.
In 1985 he produced with Laura Dern and Treat Williams the film threatening whispers to the Joyce Carol Oates wrote the screenplay. The film won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Sundance Film Festival. In 1987 he directed the film drama stacking.
Rose also worked as a theater producer. He was producer of the 1971 premiere of the play Moon Children by Michael Weller at the Royal Court Theatre in London. He also produced in the season 1994/1995 several stage versions of Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography The Woman Warrior, among others at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston and at the Doolittle Theatre in Los Angeles.
Rose is married to Elisabeth Payne Rosen, a writer and ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church.