Aaron Rosenberg
Quick Facts
| Intro | All-American college football player, film producer | ||
| Was | Film director Film producer American football player | ||
| From | United States of America | ||
| Field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Sports | ||
| Gender | male | ||
| Birth | 26 August 1912, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA | ||
| Death | 1 September 1979, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles County, California, USA (aged 67 years) | ||
| Star sign | Virgo | ||
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Biography
Aaron Rosenberg (August 26, 1912 – September 1, 1979) was an "all-American" college football player and a film and television producer with more than sixty credits. His most noted film credit is likely Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, with Jewish origins, he studied at the University of Southern California and played college football. He was an Offensive Guard He was selected for the All-America team in 1932 and 1933, and elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1966.
Film career
Following his college career, Rosenberg worked for nearly fifteen years as an assistant director at the 20th Century-Fox Film Studios. He turned to producing in the early 1950s, and produced the box office hits The Glenn Miller Story (1954), The Benny Goodman Story (1956), as well as Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). Rosenberg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer of Mutiny on the Bounty. He retired after producing Reflections of Murder for television in 1974.
Director Budd Boetticher later called Rosenberg his "favorite producer of all time because he was so damn honest. […] He and I had a lot of arguments because we both wanted to make better pictures than Universal wanted us to make."
