15 Facts About Stuart Rosenberg

Stuart Rosenberg was an American film and television director.

Stuart Rosenberg was most noted for his collaborations with actor Paul Newman, whom he directed in Cool Hand Luke, WUSA, Pocket Money, and The Drowning Pool.

Stuart Rosenberg was a five-time Directors Guild of America Award nominee, and a Primetime Emmy Award winner.

Stuart Rosenberg studied Irish literature at New York University, and began working as an apprentice film editor while in graduate school.

Meanwhile, Stuart Rosenberg was then hired to direct his first film, Murder, Inc, starring Peter Falk, but a strike by both the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild resulted in his leaving the film and being replaced by its producer, Burt Balaban.

Stuart Rosenberg returned to television, directing 15 episodes of The Untouchables, eight of the anthology series Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, five of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and three of The Twilight Zone, along with episodes of Adventures in Paradise, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Ben Casey, Rawhide with Clint Eastwood, and Falk's The Trials of O'Brien.

Stuart Rosenberg won a 1963 Emmy Award for directing "The Madman", one of his 19 episodes of the courtroom drama The Defenders.

Stuart Rosenberg had come across Donn Pearce's chain gang novel and developed the film with actor Jack Lemmon's production company Jalem.

Stuart Rosenberg was next announced to direct Lemmon in the comedy film The Job Hunter, based on a novel by Allen R Dodd, for Jalem Productions-Warner Brothers Pictures, but this was abandoned.

Stuart Rosenberg was famous for straight dramas and especially crime films.

Years later, Stuart Rosenberg replaced Bob Rafelson on the prison movie Brubaker.

Stuart Rosenberg made his last film, the independent drama My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys in 1991.

In 1992, Stuart Rosenberg became a teacher at the American Film Institute.

Stuart Rosenberg died in 2007 of a heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills, California.

Stuart Rosenberg was survived by his wife Margot Pohoryles, whom he had met at New York University; son Benjamin Rosenberg, a first assistant director; as well as four grandchildren.