Howard Rosenman specializes in producing romantic comedy films and documentary films.
10 Facts About Howard Rosenman
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Howard Rosenman was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens, the son of Sima and Morris Joseph Howard Rosenman, Ashkenazi Jewish parents from Israel whose families had lived in the Old City of Jerusalem and Mea Shearim for seven generations, but immigrated to the United States in the wake of Arab pogroms.
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Howard Rosenman graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in European Literature in 1965.
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Also during this time, Howard Rosenman served as Executive Producer of the Oscar-winning Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
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Howard Rosenman collaborated with Epstein and Friedman on two more documentary films: The Celluloid Closet in 1995, which was nominated for four Emmy Awards, and Paragraph 175 in 2000.
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Howard Rosenman subsequently formed Howard Rosenman Productions and produced The Family Man, Noel starring Susan Sarandon, Penelope Cruz and Robin Williams and You Kill Me starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni.
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In 2007, Howard Rosenman was the Executive Producer on the David Milch surfing series John from Cincinnati for HBO.
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Howard Rosenman made his acting debut in Gus Van Sant's Milk playing the role of David Goodstein opposite Sean Penn as Harvey Milk.
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Howard Rosenman is Co-Founder of Project Angel Food in Los Angeles, a meals-on-wheels program for people living with life-threatening diseases including AIDS and cancer.
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Howard Rosenman was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.