Celebrity Biographies
Stuart rosenberg
Associated with actor Paul Newman, whom he directed in several of his best works, he stood out in the field of prison cinema, with films critical of the prison system. And it is that Stuart Rosenberg was the typical liberal and protest filmmaker, who lived his golden age at the end of the 60s and 70s, specializing in characters who rebel against the system. The filmmaker died of a heart attack at his Beverly Hills home on March 14, 2007, although his family has released the event almost a week later.
Stuart Rosenberg was one of the best directors of the so-called “television generation”, along with John Frankenheimer , George Roy Hill , Delbert Mann , Sidney Lumet , Martin Ritt , Franklin J. Schaffner , Robert Mulligan and Arthur Penn . They all have in common that they began their careers in the 50s, in the small screen industry, which was then taking its first steps.
Born on August 11, 1927 in Brooklyn, the popular New York neighborhood, Stuart Rosenberg studied Irish Literature at the university in his hometown. But before graduating he was signed as an apprentice, in the editing department of a television network. Little by little he was promoted in the company, until they made him director of episodes of the Decoy series , starring a policewoman. He made his film debut with The Crime Syndicate, B series film about a mob boss. But the filming was controversial, as it coincided with a strike by the Actors Union. In solidarity with the performers, Rosenberg left the film and had to be replaced by the producer. From that moment on, he spent years concentrating on television, becoming responsible for numerous episodes of mythical series, such as Alfred Hitchcock presents Alfred Hitchcock presents , The Untouchables , At the limits of reality , The defenders and Whip . He returned to the big screen in a big way, because after the drama Question 7 , he shot The Legend of Cool , with an excellent job ofPaul Newman as Luke Jackson, a headstrong guy sentenced to hard labor in a southern prison. The film remains in the memory of moviegoers, especially for the mythical sequence of the bet on boiled eggs. Newman was so pleased with Rosenberg that he returned to his orders in A Man of Today –drama about the problem of racism, also in the old South–, The Undesirables –parody of Western cinema–, and With Water Around the Neck , a tribute to film noir that brought back the protagonist of Harper, a private investigator . Rosenberg was also the one who brought French Catherine Deneuve to American cinema for the first time , whom he joined with Jack Lemmonin Los locos de abril , an elegant comedy about infidelity.
In 1980, Rosenberg recovered the prison theme in Brubaker , a strong argument against institutionalized brutality in prisons. Robert Redford played the title character of the film, Henry Brubaker, a prison warden who pretends to be another inmate, to see how he will be treated by the guards. Rosenberg also directed some minor titles, such as San Francisco, Naked City , Love and Bullets , and Thirst for Power . Horror movie fans remember him for being responsible for The Amityville Horror , which began a long saga, and which recently had its remake, entitled La morada del miedo .