Ulu Grosbard

Israel "Ulu" Grosbard (January 9, 1929 – March 19, 2012) was a Belgian-born, naturalized American theater and film director and film producer. Born in Antwerp, Grosbard emigrated to Havana with his family in 1942. In 1948, they moved to the United States, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Chicago. He studied then at the Yale School of Drama for one year before joining the United States Army, and he became a naturalized citizen in 1954. Grosbard gravitated towards theatre when he relocated to New York City in the early 1960s. After directing The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker off-Broadway, he earned his first Broadway credit with The Subject Was Roses, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 1964. That same year he won the Obie Award for Best Direction and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for an off-Broadway revival of the Arthur Miller play A View from the Bridge, for which Dustin Hoffman served as stage manager and assistant director. Grosbard's additional Broadway credits include Miller's The Price; David Mamet's American Buffalo, which earned him Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations; Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb; and a revival of Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man. In Hollywood, Grosbard worked as an assistant director on Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story, The Hustler, The Miracle Worker, and The Pawnbroker before helming the screen adaptation of The Subject Was Roses on his own. Additional screen credits include Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? and Straight Time, both with Dustin Hoffman; True Confessions and Falling in Love, both with Robert De Niro; Georgia for which he won the Grand Prix des Amériques at the Montréal World Film Festival; and The Deep End of the Ocean. Grosbard has been married to actress Rose Gregorio since 1965. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulu Grosbard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Israel Grosbard, bekannt als Ulu Grosbard, war ein in Belgien geborener, eingebürgerter US-amerikanischer Theater- und Filmregisseur sowie Filmproduzent. Grosbard emigrierte 1942 mit seiner Familie nach Havanna. 1948 zog die Familie in die Vereinigten Staaten, wo er an der University of Chicago einen Bachelor- und einen Master-Abschluss erwarb. Anschließend studierte er ein Jahr an der Yale School of Drama, bevor er in die US-Armee eintrat und 1954 die US-amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft annahm. Nach seiner Off-Broadway-Inszenierung von „The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker“ feierte er mit „The Subject Was Roses“ sein Broadway-Debüt und wurde dafür 1964 für den Tony Award als Beste Regie eines Theaterstücks nominiert. In Hollywood arbeitete Grosbard als Regieassistent bei Filmen wie „Fieber im Blut“, „West Side Story“, „Haie der Großstadt“, „Licht im Dunkel“ und „Der Pfandleiher“, bevor er die Verfilmung von „Das Thema war Rosen“ selbst inszenierte. Zu seinen weiteren Filmen zählen „Wer ist Harry Kellerman?“ sowie „Stunde der Bewährung“, beide mit Dustin Hoffman; „Fesseln der Macht“ und „Der Liebe verfallen“, beide mit Robert De Niro; „Georgia“, für den er den Grand Prix des Amériques beim Montréal World Film Festival gewann; und „Tief wie der Ozean“.