Biografia
Jack Grossbart is an independent producer with nearly 40 telefilms produced over the past 20 years. Alongside Linda Kent at Grossbart Kent Productions, they created "Heartless," featuring Melanie Griffith for CBS, and Lifetime's "Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy," starring Sarah Chalke. This project earned them the 2007 Gracie Award, a finalist spot for the 2007 Humanitas Prize, and a 2007 Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Made for Television Movie.
Prior to Grossbart Kent Productions, Grossbart partnered with Joan Barnett in Grossbart/Barnett Productions for 15 years, producing telefilms for CBS, NBC, ABC, HBO, and emerging cable networks. Their notable works include "Any Mother's Son," "The Marriage Fool" starring Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett, "Unforgivable" with John Ritter, the award-winning "Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story" starring Molly Ringwald, "Leave of Absence" featuring Brian Dennehy and Jacqueline Bisset, "Last Wish" with Patty Duke and Maureen Stapleton, and HBO’s "The Comrades of Summer" starring Joe Mantegna. In 1993, Alan Iezman joined, renaming the company Grossbart-Barnett-Iezman Entertainment, before reverting to its original name in 1995 after Iezman’s departure.
Grossbart executive produced the Emmy®-nominated miniseries "Echoes in the Darkness," based on Joseph Wambaugh’s bestseller "The Preppie Murder," starring William (Billy) Baldwin and Lara Flynn Boyle. He also produced "Rockabye" and "I Was a Mail Order Bride," both starring Valerie Bertinelli, along with Hallmark Channel Original Movies "Edge of the Garden," "Smart Cookies," and Hallmark Movie Channel’s "After All These Years." In the half-hour series format, he executive produced Bertinelli’s "Sydney" for CBS and "Café Americain" for NBC.
A Rutgers University graduate with a B.A. in English and Dramatic Arts, Grossbart began his career in the ICM mailroom, rising to an agent in the Theater Department. After four years, he moved to Los Angeles to join the William Morris Agency as a television department agent for five years. In 1980, he launched Litke-Grossbart Management and soon after began producing. A long-time member of the Caucus for Producers, Writers and Directors, Grossbart led its membership committee. He has been part of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for 15 years, serving on the awards committee and the Producer’s Peer Group Executive Committee. Elected in 1997 as a Governor representing the Producers Peer Group, he held the position for four years. For the past four years, Grossbart has been an adjunct professor in the Production Division at the USC School of Cinema and Television.
