Ulu Grosbard

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Ulu Grosbard
Born
Israel Grosbard

(1929-01-09)9 January 1929
Antwerp, Belgium
Died19 March 2012(2012-03-19) (aged 83)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Education University of Chicago (BA, MA)
Yale University
Occupation(s)Film director, film producer, theatre director
Spouse
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(m. 1965)​

Israel "Ulu" Grosbard (January 9, 1929 – March 19, 2012) was a Belgian-born, naturalized American theater and film director and film producer.

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Life and career

Born in Antwerp, Grosbard was the son of Rose (Tenenbaum) and Morris Grosbard, the latter of whom worked in business and as a diamond merchant. [1] [2] [3] Grosbard emigrated to Havana with his family in 1942; they were fleeing the persecution of Jews by the German occupiers of Belgium during World War II. In 1948, they moved to the United States, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago. He studied at the Yale School of Drama for one year before joining the U.S. Army. [4] Grosbard became a naturalized citizen in 1954. [1]

Grosbard gravitated toward theater when he moved 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. The 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. [5]

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 . [1] He directed the screen adaptation of The Subject Was Roses , Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? , Straight Time , True Confessions , Falling in Love , Georgia and The Deep End of the Ocean .

Personal life

Grosbard was married to actress Rose Gregorio from 1965 to his death. [1] Grosbard died March 19, 2012, at the Langone Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 83. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Ulu Grosbard Biography (1929-)".
  2. ↑ Weber, Bruce (20 March 2012). "Ulu Grosbard, Broadway and Film Director, Dies at 83". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ McMurran, Kristin (7 December 1981). "He Cast His Wife as a Hooker, but Director Ulu Grosbard Says His Rose Is Still Sweet". People.
  4. ↑ "Ulu Grosbard". Filmbug.com.
  5. ↑ "Dustin Hoffman – Biography". Tiscali.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 December 2008.
  6. ↑ Bergan, Ronald (23 March 2012). "Ulu Grosbard obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
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