Roger Birnbaum

Roger Birnbaum (born November 14, 1950) is an American film producer and television producer.

Early life Birnbaum was born to a Jewish family in Teaneck, New Jersey, the son of Arlene (née Steinlauf) and Norman Birnbaum.

Career Birnbaum started out in the music industry at Arista Records working under Clive Davis. A&M Records brought him out to Hollywood becoming its West Coast A&R executive, where he switch over to film. While working at film, he was appointed president of Fair Dinkum Productions, which was headed by Henry Winkler, who supervised Young Sherlock Holmes and The Sure Thing. He worked at United Artists, Guber-Peters Co. (president in 1989) then 20th Century Fox. He was president of production at 20th Century Fox by 1992.

Caravan Pictures was founded by Birnbaum and Joe Roth as a production company at Disney in 1992 to fill the Disney Studios' then-yearly 50 to 60 production and distribution slots.

On December 20, 2010, after the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had emerged from bankruptcy, Birnbaum and Barber became co-Chairs and co-CEOs of the studio. On October 3, 2012, Birnbaum announced his intention to exit his role as an MGM executive and return to "hands-on" producing. He will remain with the studio to produce films on "an exclusive basis".

He has since founded four production companies, Pin High Productions, with Eli Roth, Arts District Entertainment and with Mark Kimsey, Electromagnetic Productions. By September 8, 2016, his exclusivity with MGM had ended. they had one daughter. He then married Leslie Lopez in 2013. Birnbaum and Lopez divorced in 2019. He was previously in a seven-year relationship with actress Teri Garr. In 2024 he married Lorraine Kelly.

Filmography Film Producer

The Sure Thing (1985) The Three Musketeers (1993) Angels in the Outfield (1994) A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994) Houseguest (1995) The Jerky Boys: The Movie (1995) Heavyweights (1995) Tall Tale (1995) While You Were Sleeping (1995) The Big Green (1995) Powder (1995) Celtic Pride (1996) First Kid (1996) The Rich Man's Wife (1996) Metro (1997) Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) Gone Fishin' (1997) G.I. Jane (1997) Washington Square (1997) RocketMan (1997) Six Days, Seven Nights (1998) Simon Birch (1998) Rush Hour (1998) Holy Man (1998) Inspector Gadget (1999) Shanghai Noon (2000) Rush Hour 2 (2001) The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) Dragonfly (2002) Abandon (2002) Reign of Fire (2002) The Recruit (2003) Shanghai Knights (2003) The Perfect Score (2004) Connie and Carla (2004) Mr. 3000 (2004) The Pacifier (2005) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) The Lookout (2007) The Invisible (2007) Evan Almighty (2007) Rush Hour 3 (2007) Underdog (2007) Balls of Fury (2007) 27 Dresses (2008) Flash of Genius (2008) Four Christmases (2008) Leap Year (2010) The Tourist (2010) The Vow (2012) The Magnificent Seven (2016) Death Wish (2018) The Hustle (2019) South of Heaven (2021) Thanksgiving (2023) Absolution (2024)

Executive producer

Who's That Girl (1987) Angie (1994) Before and After (1996) Maximum Risk (1996) The Beautician and the Beast (1997) Overnight Delivery (1997) (Direct-to-video) Keeping the Faith (2000) Unbreakable (2000) Out Cold (2001) Inspector Gadget 2 (2003) (Direct-to-video) Bruce Almighty (2003) One Love (2003) Seabiscuit (2003) The Legend of Zorro (2005) Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Eight Below (2006) Stay Alive (2006) Stick It (2006) Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) The Ruins (2008) The Happening (2008) Wanted (2008) The Love Guru (2008) Ghost Town (2008) G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) Invictus (2009) Dinner for Schmucks (2010) No Strings Attached (2011) Footloose (2011) G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) RoboCop (2014) Glass (2019) Know Your Enemy (2019)

Special thanks

Rain Man (1988) Dead Presidents (1995) Above Suspicion (2019)

Acting role

Year Film Role Notes 1998 Making Sandwiches Hollywood Type Short film

Television + Executive producer Year Title Notes 1984 CBS Schoolbreak Special 1985 Happily Ever After TV movie 1987 Bay Coven 1997 Angels in the Endzone Flash 2000 Angels in the Infield 2003 Miracles Criminology 101 TV movie 2004 The Ranch Weekends + Producer Year Title Notes 1983 Ryan's Four When Your Lover Leaves TV movie 1985 Scandal Sheet + Production manager Year Title Role Notes 1979 Music for UNICEF Concert Executive in charge of production TV special The Bee Gees Special