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Mitch Glazer | |
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 Glazer in 2015 | |
| Born | 1952or1953(age 71–72) Key Biscayne, Florida, U.S. |
| Education | Miami Beach High School |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Occupation(s) | Producer, writer, actor |
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Mitchell Aram Glazer (born 1952/1953) [1] is an American writer, producer, and actor. [2] [3]
Glazer was born in Key Biscayne, Florida, and was raised in Miami, the son of Leonard and Zelda Glazer, an English teacher. [4] Glazer is a close relative of Sidney Glazier and musician Tom Glazer.[ citation needed ] He attended Miami Beach High School and graduated from there early in 1970. [5] He attended Clark University before transferring to NYU. Before becoming a screenwriter, he wrote for the music publications Rolling Stone magazine and Crawdaddy! , where he met and befriended Timothy White. He is Jewish. [6]
Glazer was a reporter for Crawdaddy! magazine in the late 1970s. He collaborated with friend and writing partner Michael O'Donoghue on several projects, most notably the holiday comedy Scrooged that starred Bill Murray. He was also good friends with John Belushi, and wrote the novelization for The Blues Brothers under the pen name "Miami Mitch."
Glazer was formerly married to actress Wendie Malick but divorced her in 1989 after seven years. In 1992 he married actress Kelly Lynch and legally adopted her daughter Shane. [7] Glazer and Lynch own two modern architectural homes in California: one by John Lautner in the Hollywood Hills and the other by Richard Neutra in Lone Pine, California.[ citation needed ] In 2007, Glazer and Lynch were named as one of Vanity Fair's best-dressed couples.
Glazer is friends with actors Bill Murray and Mickey Rourke, who was two years ahead of him at Miami Beach High School.
In a 2024 interview on the New Heights Podcast with Jason and Travis Kelce, Bill Murray confirmed that he would prank call Glazer anytime he was watching the sex scene between Glazer's wife, Kelly Lynch, and Patrick Swayze in the film Road House .
| Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
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| 1979 | Mr. Mike's Mondo Video | Writer, actor | With Michael O'Donoghue Role: Man selling film to Mr. Mike |
| 1981 | Saturday Night Live | Writer | Episode: "Jr. Walker & the All-Stars" |
| 1988 | Scrooged | Writer, actor | With Michael O'Donoghue Role: Guest |
| 1990 | Totally Hidden Video | Segment producer | Television series |
| 1991 | Off and Running | Writer | |
| 1993 | Three of Hearts | Writer | With Adam Greenman |
| 1998 | Great Expectations | Writer | With Alfonso Cuaron and David Mamet |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation | Associate producer | |
| 2003 | The Recruit | Writer | With Roger Towne and Kurt Wimmer |
| 2006 | Drifting Elegant | Producer | |
| 2010 | Passion Play | Writer, director | |
| 2012–13 | Magic City | Showrunner, creator, writer | |
| 2015 | Rock the Kasbah | Writer | |
| 2015 | A Very Murray Christmas | Writer | Television film |
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I write about the assimilated Jewish experience in Miami because it was mine," says Glazer, whose father, an electrical engineer, did the lighting for all the top hotels. "This is a Jewish hotel family," he says, "and that's part of the show.
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