Biografia
Dan Paulson, a native of New York City, graduated with Honors, earning a B.A. from Boston University and an MBA from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. Throughout his extensive career in the entertainment industry, he has produced numerous television commercials, reality shows, and industrial films, including several award-winning and nominated projects.
Dan began his career at NBC as an executive in Business Affairs. After leaving NBC to freelance, he joined 20th Century Fox as a story editor and was later promoted to Production Executive. Eventually, Dan founded his own production company, Daniel L. Paulson Productions (DLPP), where he developed, packaged, and produced theatrical films, television movies, and series pilots such as Comes a Horseman (United Artists) and Thaddeus, Rose and Eddie (CBS). He also executive produced the NBC television movie Victims for Victims, which earned The Christopher Award.
At Dick Clark Productions, Dan served as VP of Movies and Series, overseeing the development and production of all movies and series. He executive produced Reaching for the Stars (NBC) and Copacabana (CBS), the latter receiving two Emmy nominations. Other projects included Promised a Miracle (CBS), Town Bully (ABC), and the dramatic pilot Remo Williams for ABC. After leaving Dick Clark Productions, Dan produced theatrical films such as Backtrack, Passenger 57—a top-grossing Warner Bros. release—and Sunset Park, distributed by TriStar Pictures.
Under DLPP’s overall deal with Showtime Entertainment, Dan produced Mr. and Mrs. Loving, Inside, North Shore Fish, A Cooler Climate, and Bonanno: A Godfather's Story, a five-hour miniseries. He also produced Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story, starring Debbie Reynolds, for which he earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Children's Special.
Dan's other productions include Best Friends for Life (CBS), Panic in the Skies (The Family Channel), Custody of the Heart (Lifetime), and By Dawn's Early Light (Showtime). He received the Director’s Award for Special Achievement in an Original Film Presentation from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Dan produced the miniseries Haven for CBS, winning the Humanitas Prize as Executive Producer. He also executive produced Jack (Showtime), Full-Court Miracle for the Disney Channel— a Humanitas Prize finalist— and Saving Jessica Lynch for NBC.
He produced Pictures of Hollis Woods, starring Sissy Spacek and Alfre Woodard, for Hallmark Hall of Fame/CBS. The film won a Christopher Award, a Television Academy Honors Award, a Camie Award, and was a Humanitas Award finalist. Dan also produced A Smile as Big as the Moon, starring John Corbett for ABC/Hallmark Hall of Fame, which received a Television Academy Honors Award and a Faith & Freedom Movieguide Award.
Dan's most recent project is Chesapeake Shores, a one-hour drama series for the Hallmark Channel starring Diane Ladd, Jesse Metcalfe, Meghan Ory, and Treat Williams.
