William Horberg is an American film producer and chair emeritus of the Producers Guild of America on the East coast.
11 Facts About William Horberg
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William Horberg is executive producer of The Queen's Gambit, a television miniseries released on Netflix for streaming on October 23,2020.
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William Horberg produced the Fallen Angels series for Showtime from 1993 to 1995.
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William Horberg was born in Chicago, Illinois, where, in his first venture into film, he owned and operated the downtown repertory Sandburg Movie Theatre from 1979 to 1981.
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William Horberg moved into production starting his company, FutureVision, Inc.
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William Horberg began his career in 1987 as a creative executive at Paramount Pictures and later a Senior Vice President of Production.
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William Horberg produced the HBO film Poodle Springs based on the unfinished novel by Raymond Chandler and adapted by Tom Stoppard, along with Charlie Countryman.
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In 2005, William Horberg became President of Production at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, where he produced or executive produced Talk to Me, Death at a Funeral, Married Life, Lars and the Real Girl, Synecdoche, New York the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, The Kite Runner based on the best-selling book by Khaled Hosseini, and Milk.
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William Horberg announced plans to co-produce, with Marc Forster, the drama film Disconnect directed by Henry Alex Rubin.
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William Horberg was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
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William Horberg lives in New York with his wife, Cuban-born artist, Elsa Mora, and their children.