Biography
Rosenzweig began his show business career as an MGM office boy in 1959, and rose to become one of television's most honored producers, winning two Emmy Awards for best television series (Cagney & Lacey) and a Golden Globe Award for Best Mini-Series (John Steinbeck's East of Eden).
Rosenzweig is the recipient of citations from the Congress of the United States, the State of California, the cities of Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, multiple women's groups throughout the country, and the University of Southern California, where he now serves on the prestigious Board of Councilors of the School of Cinematic Arts. His first book, a biography Cagney & Lacey ...and Me: An Inside Hollywood Story was published in print in 2007, and the first digital edition saw it released as an e-book in 2011.
In 1981 with Cagney & Lacey, Rosenzweig initiated the current trend for placing offices and production facilities in warehouses situated throughout the Los Angeles Basin, rejecting conventional studio facilities and their built-in high overhead. Then, with the CBS dramatic series The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, Rosenzweig went the additional step and provided his own deficit financing, eliminating any middleman between his unit and the network.
Rosenzweig has produced hundreds of hours of prime-time television beyond the aforementioned multiple-award-winning series and miniseries, including the successful pilot of American Dream, a dozen episodes of the premiere season of Charlie's Angels, the Daniel Boone series for NBC (three seasons), multiple pilots and movies for television, and the critically acclaimed and award-winning hour family dramas Christy for CBS and Twice in a Lifetime for the Pax Network. He most recently took a chance on Broadway, co-producing the audience-pleasing Elvis Presley homage All Shook Up.
Other honors awarded Rosenzweig's work include the ACLU "Bill of Rights Award", the Humanitas Prize, the Scott Newman Award, the Christopher Award, a special Luminas from "Women in Film", citations and salutes from the National Commission of Working Women, The Paley Center for Media, and the National Organization for Women (NOW), the "Good Guy Award" from the National Women's Political Caucus, and the "Award of Merit" from the University of Southern California as one of the university's outstanding alumni.
Rosenzweig received his degree in political science from the University of Southern California (1959), where he has established a Women in Film Foundation Cagney & Lacey Scholarship. Other philanthropies include a two-year term in Los Angeles as Chairman of the Entertainment Division of the United Jewish Fund and as Chairperson of the President's Council of the American Lung Association.
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