Jerome Charles "Jerry" Weintraub was an American film producer, talent manager and actor whose television films won him three Emmys.
27 Facts About Jerry Weintraub
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In 2011, HBO broadcast a television documentary about Jerry Weintraub's life, called His Way.
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Jerry Weintraub was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, and raised in the Bronx, the son of Rose and Samuel Jerry Weintraub.
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Jerry Weintraub was the manager of singer and actor John Denver whom he signed in 1970.
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Jerry Weintraub first saw Denver performing at a small club in Greenwich Village and liked his easy, "mountaineer's" manner.
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Jerry Weintraub produced a dozen television music specials starring Denver, winning an Emmy for one of them.
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In 1970, Jerry Weintraub convinced Elvis Presley and his manager, Col.
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Jerry Weintraub next promoted a tour for Frank Sinatra in 1974, whom Weintraub first put in Madison Square Garden's boxing arena.
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Jerry Weintraub convinced him to do a tour, which led to Sinatra's "transformation from saloon singer to stadium singer", wrote biographer Will Friedwald.
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Jerry Weintraub managed or promoted concerts for such musical acts as Cuba Gooding Sr.
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However, no studio wanted to work with Altman, telling Jerry Weintraub that the director was a "pain in the ass".
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Jerry Weintraub eventually managed to find investors and gave Altman the $2 million he needed to make the film.
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Jerry Weintraub formed Jerry Weintraub Entertainment Group in February 1987 with $461 million in financing from Columbia Pictures, Cineplex Odeon and others.
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Jerry Weintraub had a small role in Vegas Vacation as "Gilly from Philly" a high roller casino gambler with two pals, and in The Firm.
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Jerry Weintraub was executive producer of HBO's series, The Brink, and HBO's Behind the Candelabra in 2013, an Emmy-winning drama about the last ten years in the life of pianist Liberace.
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Jerry Weintraub had agreed to produce a new adaptation of The Legend of Tarzan for Warner Bros.
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Jerry Weintraub was a major contributor to many charities, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Music Center, the UCLA School of Dentistry and the Children's Museum of Los Angeles.
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Jerry Weintraub was a major supporter of Chabad and was close with the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
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Jerry Weintraub began doing charitable work to help stop the ongoing genocide taking place in Darfur in 2007.
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For 20 years until his death, Jerry Weintraub had been living with his girlfriend and longtime companion, Susan Ekins.
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Jerry Weintraub supported both political parties at various times in his life.
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Jerry Weintraub had a strong spiritual side, which he once described to television host Larry King.
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Jerry Weintraub was a devotee of The Lubavitcher Rebbe and believed in his mystical powers.
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Jerry Weintraub died from cardiac arrest in Santa Barbara, California, on July 6,2015, at the age of 77.
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Jerry Weintraub is interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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Jerry Weintraub was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
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Jerry Weintraub was one of the first independent film producers to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.