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Irwin Winkler (born May 25, 1931) is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of 50 major motion pictures, dating back to 1967’s Double Trouble, starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969), starring Jane Fonda, was nominated for nine Academy Awards. In 1976, he won an Oscar for Best Picture for Rocky. As a producer, he has been nominated for Best Picture for three other films: Raging Bull, The Right Stuff, and Goodfellas.
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Irwin Winkler Biography / Wiki
| Name | Irwin Winkler |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Production |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, United States |
| Date of Birth | 1931-05-28 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 91 |
| Deathday |
Irwin Winkler Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Perfect Moment | Himself | 1997-03-21 | In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments of their lives. Some, such as Norman Lear and India… |
| Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood | Self | 2008-04-01 | An intimate portrait of an oft-forgotten character in Hollywood: the screenwriter. Raised in Baghdad, screenwriter Mardik Martin was infused with an e… |
| The ‘New York, New York’ Stories | 2005-02-08 | Made in 2005, this documentary traces the history of NY, NY, beginning with the formation of the producing partnership between Irwin Winkler and Rober… | |
| Rocky IV: The American Punch | himself | 2014-10-11 | Rocky IV is dually symbolic – it embodies both the victory of the American boxer over the Soviet one and the victory of neo-liberalism over a dwindlin… |
| In the Ring | Himself | 2006-12-05 | An extensive look at the making of Rocky (1976)…. |
| The Collaboration Of A Lifetime: Scorsese’s Epic The Irishman | Irwin Winkler | 2020-01-15 | Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino as we go behind the scenes of their universally acc… |
| Making The Irishman | Self | 2020-11-24 | Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino going behind the scenes of their universally acclaim… |
| The Real Rocky | Himself | 2011-10-25 | Chuck Wepner is a liquor salesman from Bayonne, N.J., who drives a Cadillac with “Champ†vanity plates. A former New Jersey State Heavyweight Box… |
| Martin Scorsese’s Journey Into Silence | Self | 2017-03-28 | A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Martin Scorsese’s “Silence”… |
| Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood | Self | 2006-07-18 | A look at the motion picture production code and its effects on Hollywood…. |
| Martin Scorsese Directs | Self | 1990-06-16 | Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way S… |
| No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos | Self | 2009-01-11 | The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond. With film school equipment, they shoot … |
| Sports on the Silver Screen | Self (archive footage) | 1997-03-16 | HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from t… |
| Welcome to Hollywood | Irwin Winkler | 1998-10-01 | A film director (Adam Rifkin) decides to chart the course of a young actor (Tony Markes) as he tries to make it in Hollywood…… |
Irwin Winkler Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Net | Director | 1995-07-28 | Angela Bennett is a freelance software engineer who lives in a world of computer technology. When a cyber friend asks Bennett to debug a new game, she… |
| Guilty by Suspicion | Director | 1991-03-15 | This compelling story vividly recreates Hollywood’s infamous ‘Blacklist Era’. The witch-hunt has begun and director David Merrill can revive his stall… |
| Life as a House | Director | 2001-10-25 | When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in … |
| Home of the Brave | Director | 2006-12-15 | The day after they get the word they’ll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow… |
| Night and the City | Director | 1992-10-11 | Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter…. |
| De-Lovely | Director | 2004-07-02 | From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. … |
| At First Sight | Director | 1999-01-15 | A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life…. |
Irwin Winkler Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| GoodFellas | Producer | 1990-09-12 | The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks … |
| Rocky | Producer | 1976-11-21 | When world heavyweight boxing champion, Apollo Creed wants to give an unknown fighter a shot at the title as a publicity stunt, his handlers choose pa… |
| Rocky II | Producer | 1979-06-15 | After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can’t put… |
| Rocky III | Producer | 1982-05-28 | Now the world champion, Rocky Balboa is living in luxury and only fighting opponents who pose no threat to him in the ring, until Clubber Lang challen… |
| Rocky IV | Producer | 1985-11-21 | After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of… |
| Rocky V | Producer | 1990-11-16 | A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Ro… |
| Raging Bull | Producer | 1980-11-14 | The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it…. |
| The Net | Producer | 1995-07-28 | Angela Bennett is a freelance software engineer who lives in a world of computer technology. When a cyber friend asks Bennett to debug a new game, she… |
| Enough | Producer | 2002-05-21 | Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of thei… |
| Music Box | Producer | 1989-12-22 | A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects…. |
| The Split | Producer | 1968-11-04 | A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium…. |
| The Right Stuff | Producer | 1983-10-20 | A chronicle of the original Mercury astronauts in the formation of America’s space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, t… |
| New York, New York | Producer | 1977-06-21 | An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long up… |
| The Juror | Producer | 1996-02-02 | With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as “the Teacher” tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verd… |
| Revolution | Producer | 1985-12-25 | New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Ser… |
| The Net 2.0 | Producer | 2006-02-15 | The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job. She soon finds her passport missing… |
| The Gambler | Producer | 1974-10-02 | New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling add… |
| The Mechanic | Producer | 1972-10-06 | Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets’ deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It’s made … |
| Streets of Blood | Executive Producer | 2009-07-13 | A police officer’s partner has died during Hurricane Katrina, but he later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. An investigation follows… |
| The Strawberry Statement | Producer | 1970-08-28 | A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals…. |
| Busting | Producer | 1974-02-27 | Two Los Angeles vice squad officers find themselves up against their corrupt superiors when they try to bring a crime boss to justice. During the cour… |
| Nickelodeon | Producer | 1976-12-21 | In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up wi… |
| Home of the Brave | Producer | 2006-12-15 | The day after they get the word they’ll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow… |
| Blue | Producer | 1968-05-09 | A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a mexican gang…. |
| Breakout | Producer | 1975-05-21 | A bush pilot is hired for $250,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner…. |
| The New Centurions | Producer | 1972-08-03 | An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he … |
| De-Lovely | Producer | 2004-07-02 | From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. … |
| Silence | Producer | 2016-12-22 | Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact…. |
| The Gambler | Producer | 2014-12-25 | Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangste… |
| Survivor | Producer | 2015-05-21 | A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for cri… |
| They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? | Producer | 1969-12-10 | In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a… |
| The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight | Producer | 1971-12-22 | A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals…. |
| At First Sight | Producer | 1999-01-15 | A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life…. |
| The Shipping News | Producer | 2001-12-18 | An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life…. |
| Trespass | Producer | 2011-10-13 | Kyle and Sarah Miller have it all: a huge gated house on the water, fancy cars, and the potential for romance in their relationship. He’s just back fr… |
| Comes a Horseman | Executive Producer | 1978-10-25 | Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her ne… |
| Up the Sandbox | Producer | 1972-12-21 | A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her m… |
| Creed | Producer | 2015-11-25 | The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apoll… |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | Executive Producer | 2013-12-25 | A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infi… |
| Betrayed | Producer | 1988-08-26 | An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist…. |
| Point Blank | Producer | 1967-08-30 | After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money … |
| Double Trouble | Producer | 1967-04-05 | When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer…. |
| Thumb Tripping | Producer | 1972-10-01 | Gary and Shay are two happy-go-lucky flower children who hitchhike in the beautiful Big Sur-Monterey area of California…. |
| Valentino | Producer | 1977-09-07 | In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide…… |
| Author! Author! | Producer | 1982-06-18 | A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, a… |
| S*P*Y*S | Producer | 1974-09-05 | Two CIA bunglers (Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould) botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination…. |
| Believe in Me | Producer | 1971-12-08 | Remy is a medical student who has a flair for making his patients comfortable. His genuine concern for the patients in his charge marks him as a hot p… |
| The Irishman | Producer | 2019-11-01 | Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank … |
| Creed II | Producer | 2018-11-21 | Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family’s past, Adonis Creed is up against the ch… |
| True Confessions | Producer | 1981-09-25 | A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute… |
| The Mechanic | Executive Producer | 2011-01-13 | Arthur Bishop is a ‘mechanic’ – an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It’s a job that requires profe… |
| Life as a House | Producer | 2001-10-25 | When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in … |
| Porgy and Bess | Producer | Porgy and Bess is a tale set in the slums of Charleston, SC. There in Catfish Row, a disabled beggar named Porgy tries to rescue Bess from her violent… | |
| Rocky Balboa | Executive Producer | 2006-12-20 | When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon retaliates by challengin… |
| Scandal Sheet | Producer | 1985-01-21 | The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoho… |
| Peeper | Producer | 1975-12-03 | A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune…. |
| Music Got Me Here | Executive Producer | 2017-01-01 | A story about the power of music to heal and transform lives, often in miraculous ways…. |
| Night and the City | Producer | 1992-10-11 | Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter…. |
| Fascinating Rhythm | Producer | A musical centered on a young woman’s magical journey through past and present New York City that will draw creative influence from the life and mus… | |
| Creed III | Producer | 2023-03-03 | The third installment of Creed franchise…. |
| Leo the Last | Producer | 1970-09-04 | Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European… |
| Wise Guys | Producer | Italian American crime bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello run their respective families during the 20th century. In 1957, Genovese tried (and fai… | |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Guilty by Suspicion | Writer | 1991-03-15 | This compelling story vividly recreates Hollywood’s infamous ‘Blacklist Era’. The witch-hunt has begun and director David Merrill can revive his stall… |
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