Edward Pressman

Producer

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Ed Pressman

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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Began his career in England in partnership with director Paul Williams and has since produced a wide range of films which have introduced unknown or unproven talents to American audiences. Pressman produced the early Brian De Palma feature, "Sisters" (1972), Terrence Malick's acclaimed debut, "Badlands" (1973), R.W. Fassbinder's first English-language film, "Despair" (1978), and three Ol...

Filmography

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Street Fighter (1994)

Crimewave (1986)

The Crow (2019)

Happy Valley (2018)

Executive Producer

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

Red Wing (2013)

Photos & Videos

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Cherry 2000 (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Toast Is Just The Beginning

Hand, The (1981) -- (Movie Clip) If You Found Part Of A Human Body

Family & Companions

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Annie McEnroe

Wife

Notes

"The producer's function is to establish the context for the filmmaker to achieve his or her vision. If that is achieved, if the film is elegantly dressed, but the producer has not inhibited the filmmaker's objectives, then I say the film is well produced and the producer is a good producer."--Edward Pressman (quoted in THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, March 18, 1991)

Biography

Began his career in England in partnership with director Paul Williams and has since produced a wide range of films which have introduced unknown or unproven talents to American audiences. Pressman produced the early Brian De Palma feature, "Sisters" (1972), Terrence Malick's acclaimed debut, "Badlands" (1973), R.W. Fassbinder's first English-language film, "Despair" (1978), and three Oliver Stone movies, including his directorial debut, "The Hand" (1981). The prolific producer--a leader in the independent movement, whose work continues to promote talented writers and directors--has also worked with such noted directors as Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Wolfgang Peterson, David Hare, Kathryn Bigelow, Bob Swaim, David Byrne, Barbet Schroder, Abel Ferrara and Alex Cox. He also made the successful "Conan the Barbarian" (1982), "Masters of the Universe" (1987), "Reversal of Fortune" (1990) and "Hoffa" (1992).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Street Fighter (1994)

Crimewave (1986)

Producer (Feature Film)

The Crow (2019)

Happy Valley (2018)

Executive Producer

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

Red Wing (2013)

Red Wing (2013)

Executive Producer

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

Mutant Chronicles (2009)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

Amazing Grace (2007)

Twist of Fate (Foresight) (2007)

Executive Producer

Dali and I: The Surreal Story (2007)

Executive Producer

Dali and I: The Surreal Story (2007)

Thank You for Smoking (2006)

Executive Producer

Driving Lessons (2006)

Executive Producer

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

Executive Producer

The King (2005)

Executive Producer

Never Die Alone (2004)

Executive Producer

Beautiful Country (2004)

Undertow (2004)

Love Object (2003)

Executive Producer

The Hebrew Hammer (2003)

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Owning Mahowny (2003)

Executive Producer

The Cooler (2003)

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Happy Times (2002)

Executive Producer

The Guys (2002)

Executive Producer

Harvard Man (2001)

Executive Producer

The Crow: Salvation (2000)

American Psycho (2000)

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000)

Executive Producer

A Question of Faith (2000)

Executive Producer

ENDURANCE (1999)

Black and White (1999)

Executive Producer

After the Truth (1999)

Party Monster (1998)

Executive Producer

New Rose Hotel (1998)

Legionnaire (1998)

Winter Guest (1997)

Two Girls and A Guy (1997)

The Blackout (1997)

The Crow: City of Angels (1996)

City Hall (1996)

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

Judge Dredd (1995)

Executive Producer

Street Fighter (1994)

Dream Lover (1993)

Executive Producer

Storyville (1992)

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

Iron Maze (1991)

Executive Producer

Year Of The Gun (1991)

Homicide (1991)

To Sleep with Anger (1990)

Executive Producer

Waiting For the Light (1990)

Executive Producer

Reversal of Fortune (1990)

Blue Steel (1989)

Martians Go Home (1989)

Executive Producer

Paris By Night (1988)

Executive Producer

Cherry 2000 (1988)

Talk Radio (1987)

Executive Producer

Good Morning Babylon (1987)

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Wall Street (1987)

Masters Of The Universe (1987)

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True Stories (1986)

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Crimewave (1986)

Executive Producer

Half Moon Street (1986)

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The Pirates of Penzance (1983)

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Das Boot (1982)

Executive Producer

Conan The Barbarian (1982)

Executive Producer

The Hand (1981)

Executive Producer

You Better Watch Out (1980)

Heart Beat (1980)

Executive Producer

Old Boyfriends (1979)

Victoria (1979)

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Paradise Alley (1978)

Executive Producer

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

Badlands (1973)

Executive Producer

The Revolutionary (1970)

Out of It (1969)

Cast (Special)

The 13th Annual IFP Gotham Awards (2003)

Life Events

1968

Set up three-picture development deal with United Artists

1969

Produced first feature, "Out of It" with Paul Williams

1988

Honored with retrospective at Museum of Modern Art, NY

1989

Honored with retrospective at Paris Cinematheque

Videos

Cherry 2000 (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Toast Is Just The Beginning Still listening to the voice of the broken sex-robot wife he's on a mission to replace, executive Sam (David Andrews) joins his hired

Hand, The (1981) -- (Movie Clip) If You Found Part Of A Human Body Back home in Vermont struggling to adjust to the loss of his hand, comic book artist Jonathan Lansdale (Michael Caine) visits his studio, then goes back to the scene of the accident to search, then meets with his agent (Rosemary Murphy), as things get weirder, in writer-director Oliver Stone's horror hybrid The Hand 1981.

Sisters (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Peeping Toms Ever outrageous and toying with his audience, director and co-writer Brian De Palma’s opening from his early independent feature, Sisters, 1973, with then-provocative fetus images, then Margot Kidder and Lisle Wilson in a scene that is not what it first appears to be.

Sisters (1973) -- (Movie Clip) The Body Is In The Couch! Freelance reporter Grace (Jennifer Salt) watches her novice private eye Larkin (Charles Durning) searching the apartment where she thinks neighbor Danielle (Margot Kidder) killed her lover, when she turns up, but he escapes and shares his (correct!) new theory, in Brian De Palma’s Sisters, 1973.

Hand, The (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Now That I Control You Joining writer-director Oliver Stone’s opening credit sequence, using Big Bear lake as Vermont, Michael Caine is introduced as comic strip artist Jonathan Lansdale, Mara Hobel his daughter, Andrea Marcovicci his wife, in The Hand, 1981, from a novel by Marc Brandel.

Hand, The (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Mandro Doesn't Think Presumably meaning well as he meets with his agent (Rosemary Murphy) and David (Charles Fleischer), who’s begun taking over for him, comic strip artist Jonathan (Michael Caine), who lost his hand in a car wreck, gets riled about his main character, leading to writer-director Oliver Stone’s grisly cameo, in The Hand 1981.

Hand, The (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Big Culture Hero Fairly famous comic strip artist Jonathan Lansdale (Michael Caine), struggling after losing his drawing hand in an accident, has taken a job at a small California college, where he’s received by new colleague Brian (Bruce McGill) and meets his first students, in particular Annie McEnroe, in writer-director Oliver Stone’s The Hand 1981.

Sisters (1973) -- (Movie Clip) I Got Rid Of Him Before Philip and Danielle (Lisle Wilson, Margot Kidder), who met that night on a game show, have adjourned to her Staten Island apartment, where he notices her ex-husband, who intruded earlier, is standing watch outside, before the real weirdness, in Brian De Palma’s Sisters, 1973.

Sisters (1973) -- (Movie Clip) A Man Is Bleeding To Death! Director Brian De Palma switches on the crazy, as we’ve seen Margot Kidder, whom we thought was unconscious but who maybe has a twin sister, stab lover Philip (Lisle Wilson), and he’s seen groping to the window by neighbor Grace (Jennifer Salt), prompting the split screen and the return of the spooky ex-husband, in Sisters, 1973.

Badlands - (Original Trailer) Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek play lovers on a cross-country killing spree in Badlands (1973) directed by Terrence Malick.

Family

Sammy Jack Pressman

Son

Born October 12, 1987.

Companions

Annie McEnroe

Wife

Bibliography

Notes

"The producer's function is to establish the context for the filmmaker to achieve his or her vision. If that is achieved, if the film is elegantly dressed, but the producer has not inhibited the filmmaker's objectives, then I say the film is well produced and the producer is a good producer."--Edward Pressman (quoted in THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, March 18, 1991)

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