Tamara Asseyev
Tamara Constance Asseyev ( born February 4, 1943) is an American film producer and author.
Life and work
Tamara Asseyev grew up in California. They first visited the Mayfield School and until 1961, the South Pasadena High School. She then studied theater at Marymount College ( later in the Loyola Marymount University risen ) and graduated in 1965 with a BA from. She then received her Master's degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. Your thesis dealt with the Los Angeles Music Center, a cultural institution which it was to be joined later, including as member of the promotional Amazing Blue Ribbon.
1966 was Asseyev in three episodes of the television comedy series My Three Sons as an actor before the camera, but then turned permanent film production. My career began as an assistant to producer Roger Corman. Together they worked on eight films, which include The Trip and Chicago Massacre gehörten.1968 produced Asseyev a five-minute prologue for the horror film The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 ), because the film was too short for the intended TV program location at ABC.
Corman's New World Pictures company joined some later productions of Asseyev on as a distributor. In this way, she met the director of the film distribution Alexandra Rose know. The two decided to work together as producers, starting in 1976 with the comedy Drive-In. The highlight of their collaboration and greatest success as a producer was the drama Norma Rae - A woman is her husband, for which they were awarded with an Oscar nomination.
In 1984, Asseyev her own film production company, Tamara Asseyev Productions, in Los Angeles. So she produced (mainly as Executive Producer) in the 1980s, some TV movies such as The Double Life of Kathy McCormick and Deadly galaxy.
Asseyev also published with co-author Elizabeth Nickles three humorous, illustrated books, in which cats act as protagonists. She was also as a talent scout of the publisher E. P. Dutton worked. It is committed to the promotion of the arts, it was among other things a founding member of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Publications (selection )
- The development of the Los Angeles Music Center project. Thesis ( M. A. ), UCLA, 1968.
- With Elizabeth Nickles: Always kiss with your whiskers: love advice from my cat. Pocket Books, New York, 1991, ISBN 0-671-74983-8.
- With Elizabeth Nickles: Heavy petting: romantic advice from my cat. Hyperion, New York 1994, ISBN 1-562-82799-5.
- With Elizabeth Nickles: First cat, second term. Capra Press in cooperation with Feline Fine Editions, Santa Barbara 1997, ISBN 0-884-96421-3.