Curated playlist
Film producers from Los Angeles
- Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock was born on the 13th of August 1899 above a greengrocer's shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone, Essex. By the time he died in 1980, his films had collected 46 Academy Award nominations and his name had become an adjective…
- Simon KinbergSimon Kinberg has a small cameo in one of his own scripts. In Mr. & Mrs. Smith, he plays the banker who chats with John Smith at a dinner party. He had started the screenplay years earlier, as his thesis project in film school. That scene…
- LeBron JamesLeBron Raymonde James Sr. was born on the 30th of December 1984, at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, to a 16-year-old mother named Gloria Marie James. His father was not involved in his life. The family moved through the run-down…
- Matthew Robinson (writer)Matthew Robinson was born on the 26th of May 1978, and by his early thirties he had managed to co-create a film that asked one of the stranger philosophical questions in modern comedy: what would the world look like if no one had ever…
- Steven SpielbergSteven Spielberg was born on the 18th of December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and by the time he was twelve years old, he had already staged and filmed a train wreck with his Lionel set. That eight-millimeter camera, borrowed from his…
- David LynchDavid Lynch was born on the 20th of January 1946 at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana, the son of a USDA research scientist and an English-language tutor. He died on the 16th of January 2025, four days before what would have been…
- Christopher NolanChristopher Nolan does not own a smartphone, and he has no email address. He hand-delivers his scripts to the actors he wants, and his wife handles the rest of the outreach. This is a filmmaker whose movies have earned over $6 billion…
- Bryan BurkBryan Burk served as producer on Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015. That credit belongs alongside two Mission: Impossible films, the Star Trek reboot series, and television including Lost, Fringe, and Westworld. Burk built all of that…
- William WylerWilliam Wyler walked away from the set of Ben-Hur in 1959 having just overseen a chariot race that took six months to film. The budget had ballooned from $7 million to $15 million, and everyone on the lot knew that if the picture failed,…
- Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Alois Schwarzenegger arrived in the United States in October 1968 at age 21, speaking little English and carrying little money. He had already won the Mr. Universe title once, and he would go on to win it three more times. What…
- Howard KazanjianHoward Kazanjian is nowhere in the credits of The Empire Strikes Back. He took over that production partway through, after original producer Gary Kurtz departed, yet received no screen credit for it. Kazanjian was born on the 26th of July…
- Gary KurtzGary Kurtz walked onto the set of a low-budget Western in 1965 with no idea he would one day help shape two of the most profitable films ever made. He was an assistant director on Ride in the Whirlwind, a Monte Hellman picture starring…
- Steve BinderSteve Binder was born on the 12th of December, 1932, and by the time most people his age were still figuring out their careers, he was already steering some of American television's most consequential moments from behind the camera. In his…
- Olivia HarrisonOlivia Harrison was already being described in newspaper headlines as the woman who saved a former Beatle's life before most readers could place her name. On the 30th of December 1999, a man broke into Friar Park, the Henley-on-Thames home…