Dan Kolsrud

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Dan Kolsrud
Born
USA.
Other namesDaniel P. Kolsrud
OccupationFilm producer

Dan Kolsrud is an American film producer. The movies he worked on were nominated 24 times at the Academy Award and won 3 Oscars. [1]

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Biography

Dan Kolsrud is a 1970 graduate of the University of North Carolina Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures. After graduating, he worked in the television industry on the East coast for a few years, and then moved to Hollywood to work in movie production. [1]

He is also Executive Vice President Worldwide Theatrical Physical Production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer since 2008. [2] [3]

Filmography

He was producer for all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

YearFilmCredit
1983 Something Wicked This Way Comes Associate producer
1990 Impulse Executive producer
1992 Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1993 Falling Down Co-producer
Grumpy Old Men Executive producer
1994 Richie Rich Executive producer
1995 Seven Executive producer
1997 L.A. Confidential Executive producer
1999 Mystery, Alaska Executive producer
Bicentennial Man Executive producer
2002 Serving Sara Executive producer
2003 Daddy Day Care Executive producer
2004 13 Going on 30 Executive producer
2005 Are We There Yet?
The Fog Executive producer
2008 Role Models Executive producer
2009 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Executive producer
2013 Identity Thief Executive producer
Second unit director or assistant director
YearFilmRole
1977 Slap Shot DGA trainee
1978 I Wanna Hold Your Hand Second assistant director
Same Time, Next Year
1980 Coal Miner's Daughter First assistant director
Xanadu
1981 Ghost Story
1983 Something Wicked This Way Comes
Going Berserk
Gorky Park
1985 The Goonies
1986 Top Gun
Howard the Duck
1987 Spaceballs Assistant director
Like Father Like Son First assistant director
1990 Men Don't Leave
Miscellaneous crew
YearFilmRole
2008 Valkyrie Executive VP of production
2010 Hot Tub Time Machine
2011 Zookeeper
The Cabin in the Woods
2012 Red Dawn
Production manager
YearFilmRole
1990 Impulse Unit production manager
1993 Grumpy Old Men
Thanks
YearFilmRole
1981 Continental Divide Special thanks
2008 Smother Thanks

Television

Second unit director or assistant director
YearTitleRoleNotesOther notes
1977 Red Alert Second assistant directorTelevision film
Exo-Man
Uncredited
Escape from Bogen County
1979Fast Friends
The Legend of the Golden Gun
1984 Lace Assistant director
Fatal Vision

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References

  1. 1 2 "Major Hollywood producer and pos-production sound supervisor invited at EICAR master class". Eicar.fr. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  2. "Dan Kolsrud named evp of theatrical physical production at MGM". Screendaily. 2008-06-16.
  3. "Dan Kolsrud to join MGM". Hollywoodreporter.com. 2008-06-16.