Tony Krantz was born on June 16,1959 and is an American film and television producer, writer, and director.
31 Facts About Tony Krantz
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Tony Krantz started there as a mailroom trainee and rose to eventually run the primetime television department, where he personally packaged the television series ER, Twin Peaks, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place and The West Wing, among many others.
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Tony Krantz put together the movies The Doors and Wild at Heart.
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Under his leadership at CAA, there were 32 shows on the primetime lineup that the agency represented when Tony Krantz left to start the next part of his career.
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Tony Krantz transitioned into producing television, and was one of three founders of Imagine Television, serving as its co-chairman and CEO.
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Tony Krantz left Imagine in 2002 to pursue his path as a film and television director and writer.
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Tony Krantz has since directed three films, Sublime, Otis, and The Big Bang, and is currently the principal and owner of the independent production company Flame Ventures.
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Tony Krantz graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1977 where he was senior class president.
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Tony Krantz then went on to college at the University of California, Berkeley where Krantz worked as a concert promoter for the student body.
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Tony Krantz produced the Berkeley Jazz Festival in 1980 among numerous punk rock and rock concerts which would later influence his work.
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Two weeks after graduation, Tony Krantz started his professional career in the mailroom at CAA.
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Tony Krantz re-read the script and then convinced a reticent Crichton and the script's owner Amblin Television and Warner Bros.
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In 1998, Tony Krantz left his career at CAA to produce television, and partnered with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to found Imagine Television.
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Tony Krantz served as CEO and co-chairman and was its principal partner.
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Tony Krantz executive produced many television shows, including Felicity with JJ Abrams and Matt Reeves, Sports Night with Aaron Sorkin, Wonderland with Peter Berg, The PJs with Eddie Murphy, Mulholland Drive.
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Tony Krantz told Elyse Eisenberg at Warner Home Video that his dream since the third grade was to direct.
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The film was directed by Tony Krantz and written by Erik Jendresen.
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Tony Krantz described it as "a thinking man's horror film" with a huge twist at the end.
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The independent thriller The Big Bang was Tony Krantz's most involved directing project to date.
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In late 2011, Tony Krantz left his representation at WME and went back to CAA, this time as a client.
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Tony Krantz is busy at work on Phantom, a noir thriller series he's created set in 1919 Paris, adapted from the classic book, Phantom of the Opera.
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Tony Krantz is writing all episodes and directing most of that series.
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When interviewed about his highly unusual transition from agent to executive producer to director and writer, Tony Krantz shared that he has wanted to direct since he was in third grade at Rudolf Steiner School in New York City, but he knew that it would be difficult to enter that realm.
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Tony Krantz says the directing heroes of his life are Mike Nichols, Coppola, the Coen Brothers, David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David Lynch because of their artistry.
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Tony Krantz acknowledges that he joined CAA at the start of his career mostly because he was looking for a job with structure and a path to earn a living after college.
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Tony Krantz defies a widely held conception in Hollywood that agents and even producers are not creatively inclined as directors and writers.
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Tony Krantz is married to Kristin Tony Krantz, the co-founder and CEO of both Prana Animation Studios.
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When Tony Krantz was worried about leaving his established, comfortable career at CAA to produce television, it was his wife who encouraged him to pick up the phone and call Brian Grazer to inquire about a partnership, after the couple saw the movie "Ransom" in San Francisco which Grazer produced and Ron Howard directed.
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In May 2014, Tony Krantz hosted a Foreign Policy Roundtable at his home in Beverly Hills where attendees listened in on a conversation between Ari Shavit, noted Israeli journalist and author of My Promised Land, and Jessica Yellin, former CNN White House correspondent.
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Tony Krantz's shows have won numerous Emmys and Golden Globes and have been nominated for Oscars.
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In 2002, Tony Krantz received the Producer's Guild Award for best dramatic series for his work on 24 as its executive producer.