Barney Rosenzweig

Barney Rosenzweig (born December 23, 1937) is an American television producer.

Biography Rosenzweig was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles and graduated from Montebello High School in 1955. His father was a schoolteacher and his mother a civil servant. He produced the 1980s television series Cagney & Lacey written by his then wife Barbara Corday and Barbara Avedon. He also produced the 1960s series Daniel Boone, as well as a dozen episodes of Charlie's Angels. He subsequently created and produced The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, which starred his third wife Sharon Gless and ran for two seasons in the early 1990s.

In 1985, he set up The Rosenzweig Company to launch their first TV project Fortune Dane, and received a three-year distribution deal with Columbia Pictures Television.

Personal life While attending Montebello high school he was cheerleader. While a senior in college, he married JoAnne Lang, the stepdaughter of producer Aaron Rosenberg; they had three daughters before divorcing in 1978.

In 1991, he married actress Sharon Gless, star of Cagney & Lacey.