John Herzfeld was born on April 15,1947 and is an American film and television director, screenwriter, actor and producer.
14 Facts About John Herzfeld
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John Herzfeld has directed numerous made-for-television movies, including The Ryan White Story, The Preppie Murder, Casualties of Love: The "Long Island Lolita" Story, and Don King: Only in America for which he was nominated for an Emmy and won the DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials.
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John Herzfeld won a Daytime Emmy Award for directing the 1980 ABC Afterschool Special titled "Stoned".
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John Herzfeld began his directing career with two ABC Afterschool Specials.
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John Herzfeld won a Daytime Emmy for best directing in children's programming for his work on the 1980 film Stoned, the story of a shy, bullied high school student who becomes involved with marijuana.
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John Herzfeld won the first annual "Scott Newman Drug Abuse Prevention Award" for his writing on Stoned.
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Travolta plays a failed inventor who robs a bank, and Newton-John Herzfeld is a teller who puts deposit slips in Travolta's bag and keeps the cash for herself.
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In 1996, John Herzfeld returned to feature films as the director and screenwriter of the crime thriller 2 Days in the Valley with an all-star cast that included Danny Aiello, Jeff Daniels, Teri Hatcher, Charlize Theron, Keith Carradine, Eric Stoltz, Marsha Mason, James Spader, Paul Mazursky and Louise Fletcher.
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In 1997, John Herzfeld directed Don King: Only in America, a biographical dramatization of the life of boxing promoter Don King aired by HBO.
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At the time, John Herzfeld described his goal for the film:.
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John Herzfeld wrote and directed the 2001 feature 15 Minutes pairing Robert De Niro and Edward Burns.
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From 2004 to 2006, John Herzfeld returned to television, writing and directing multiple episodes of the Rob Lowe series, Dr Vegas.
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In 2007, John Herzfeld directed the crime thriller The Death and Life of Bobby Z starring Paul Walker and Laurence Fishburne.
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In 2009, John Herzfeld directed the 90-minute documentary "Inferno: The Making Of The Expendables" for his friend Sylvester Stallone.