Barney Rosenzweig

Barney Rosenzweig (born December 23, 1937 in Los Angeles, California) is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winning television producer. He is best known for producing the 1980s television series Cagney & Lacey.In 1991 he married Sharon 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 two Emmy Award's for best television series (Cagney & Lacey), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Mini-Series (John Steinbeck's East 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 the Los Angeles Basin, rejecting conventional studio facilities and their built-in high overhead. Then, with the CBS 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 of Charlie's Angels, the "Daniel Boone" series for NBC (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 the Pax 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", the Humanitas Prize, the Scott Newman Award, the Christopher Award, a special Luminas from "Women in Film", as well as citations and salutes from the "National Commission of Working Women", the Museum of Television and Radio, the National Organization for Women (NOW), the "Good Guy Award" from the "National Women's Political Caucus" and the "Award of Merit" from the University 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]