Jack Grossbart

Jack Grossbart is an independent producer who has produced nearly 40 telefilms in the last 20 years. Partnered with Linda Kent in Grossbart Kent Productions, they have produced "Heartless," starring Melanie Griffith for CBS and Lifetime's "Why I Wore Lipstick to my Mastectomy," starring Sarah Chalke, for which they received the 2007 Gracie Award, were finalists for the 2007 Humanitas Prize and received a 2007 Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Made for Television Movie. Before forming Grossbart Kent Productions, Grossbart was partnered with Joan Barnett in Grossbart/Barnett Productions for 15 years and produced telefilms for CBS, NBC, ABC and HBO, as well as some of the newly emerging cable channels. Among their productions have been "Any Mother's Son," "The Marriage Fool" starring Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett, "Unforgivable" starring John Ritter, the award-winning "Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story" starring Molly Ringwald, "Leave of Absence" starring Brian Dennehy and Jacqueline Bisset, "Last Wish" starring Patty Duke and Maureen Stapleton and HBO's "The Comrades of Summer" starring Joe Mantegna. In 1993, Alan Iezman joined the company after he left WME, becoming Grossbart-Barnett-Iezman Entertainment, before returning to the original identity in 1995 after Iezman left. Grossbart executive produced the Emmy® nominated miniseries "Echoes in the Darkness," based on the best-selling Joseph Wambaugh book, "The Preppie Murder," starring William (Billy) Baldwin and Lara Flynn Boyle, "Rockabye" and "I Was a Mail Order Bride," both starring Valerie Bertinelli. He also executive produced the Hallmark Channel Original Movie's "Edge of the Garden" and "Smart Cookies," as well as the Hallmark Movie Channel Original "After All These Years." In the half-hour series arena, Grossbart executive produced the Bertinelli series "Sydney" for CBS and "Café Americain" for NBC. Grossbart graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in English and Dramatic Arts and started working in the mailroom at ICM, where he worked his way up to become an agent in their Theater Department. After four years, he moved to Los Angeles to work for the William Morris Agency, where he was an agent in the television department for five years. In 1980 he formed Litke-Grossbart Management and shortly after that he started his producing career . An active member of the Caucus for Producers, Writers and Directors for many years, Grossbart was head of its membership committee. He has been a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for 15 years and has served on the awards committee and the Producer's Peer Group Executive Committee. In 1997, he was elected a Governor representing the Producers Peer Group, a post he held for four years. For the last four years, Grossbart has been an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinema and Television in the Production Division.