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Known primarily as a producer on nearly all the films directed by Woody Allen, Jack Rollins was also a talent manager with several famous comedians as clients. Additionally, he veered into TV as a talk show producer. Rollins's most famous work was as one of Allen's producers, and he helped the auteur throughout his cinematic career. This collaboration started early, with Allen's 1969 dir...

Filmography

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Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

Stardust Memories (1980)

Irrational Man (2015)

Co-Executive Producer

Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

Co-Executive Producer

Blue Jasmine (2013)

Co-Executive Producer

To Rome With Love (2012)

Co-Executive Producer

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Manhattan (1979) -- Original Trailer

Front, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Communist Sympathizer

Biography

Known primarily as a producer on nearly all the films directed by Woody Allen, Jack Rollins was also a talent manager with several famous comedians as clients. Additionally, he veered into TV as a talk show producer. Rollins's most famous work was as one of Allen's producers, and he helped the auteur throughout his cinematic career. This collaboration started early, with Allen's 1969 directing debut, "Take the Money and Run," a wild comedy about an inept criminal (played by the director, of course). Among the many other films the two combined to make were a pair of Academy Award winners--the sprawling comic romance "Annie Hall" (1977) and the more dramatic family saga "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986). Rollins also helped produce Allen's diversions into serious drama with films like 1978's "Interiors." For the most part, however, Rollins was a comedy man. As a manager, he had big-name clients like talk show host Dick Cavett and standup comic/actor Robert Klein. Rollins also put in time in the TV world as an executive producer in the early years of the durable and popular talk/comedy show "Late Night With David Letterman" (1983). During Rollins's tenure on the series it garnered a string of Emmy nominations, although it didn't win any of the awards.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

Stardust Memories (1980)

Producer (Feature Film)

Irrational Man (2015)

Co-Executive Producer

Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

Co-Executive Producer

Blue Jasmine (2013)

Co-Executive Producer

To Rome With Love (2012)

Co-Executive Producer

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Co-Executive Producer

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

Co-Executive Producer

Whatever Works (2009)

Co-Executive Producer

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

Co-Executive Producer

Cassandra's Dream (2007)

Co-Executive Producer

Co-Executive Producer

Match Point (2005)

Co-Executive Producer

Melinda and Melinda (2004)

Co-Executive Producer

Anything Else (2003)

Co-Executive Producer

Hollywood Ending (2002)

Co-Executive Producer

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

Co-Executive Producer

Small Time Crooks (2000)

Co-Executive Producer

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

Co-Executive Producer

Celebrity (1998)

Co-Executive Producer

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Co-Executive Producer

Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

Co-Executive Producer

Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

Co-Executive Producer

Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Co-Executive Producer

Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

Executive Producer

Husbands and Wives (1992)

Executive Producer

Shadows And Fog (1991)

Executive Producer

Crimes And Misdemeanors (1989)

Executive Producer

New York Stories (1989)

Executive Producer

Another Woman (1988)

Executive Producer

Radio Days (1987)

Executive Producer

September (1987)

Executive Producer

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Executive Producer

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Executive Producer

Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

Executive Producer

Stardust Memories (1980)

Executive Producer

Manhattan (1979)

Interiors (1978)

Annie Hall (1977)

The Front (1976)

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Special Thanks (Feature Film)

Crossing the Bridge (1992)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

Cast (Special)

Nichols and May -- Take Two (1996)

Producer (Special)

Rick Reynolds: Only the Truth Is Funny (1993)

Executive Producer

Late Night With David Letterman: 10th Anniversary (1992)

Executive Producer

Late Night With David Letterman Eighth Anniversary Special (1990)

Executive Producer

Late Night With David Letterman Seventh Anniversary Show (1989)

Executive Producer

Late Night With David Letterman Sixth Anniversary Show (1988)

Executive Producer

David Letterman's Old-Fashioned Christmas (1987)

Executive Producer

Late Night With David Letterman Fifth Anniversary Show (1987)

Executive Producer

David Letterman's 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival (1986)

Executive Producer

Late Night Film Festival (1985)

Executive Producer

The Robert Klein Show (1981)

Executive Producer

The Woody Allen Special (1969)

Misc. Crew (Special)

But... Seriously (1994)

Life Events

Videos

Front, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Communist Sympathizer TV writer Miller (Michael Murphy) explaining how he's been blacklisted to friend Howard (Woody Allen), a cashier and small-time bookie, early in The Front, 1976, by blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Martin Ritt.

Front, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Make It A Firing Squad Howard (Woody Allen) enjoying the fruits of his work "fronting" for blacklisted writers, has a meeting with Delaney (Lloyd Gough) foiled, then arrives at the studio where Florence (Andrea Marcovicci) and Sussman (Herschel Bernardi) have an emergency, in The Front. 1977.

Front, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) First Class Script His first visit to the TV studio, Howard (Woody Allen), posing as a writer in place of his blacklisted friend, meets Florence (Andrea Marcovicci), Sussman (Herschel Bernardi), actor Parks (William Bogert) and comic Hecky (Zero Mostel), in Martin Ritt's The Front, 1976.

Front, The (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Sincerity Is The Key We meet Remak Ramsay as Hennessy, the ex-FBI man whose job is to clear network employees suspected of having Communist connections, as comic Hecky (the long-blacklisted Zero Mostel) has his initial interview, in The Front, 1976, from Walter Bernstein’s original screenplay.

Sleeper (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Frozen In 1973 Early scene, doctors (Bartlett Robinson, Don Keefer, Mary Gregory) unwrapping newly discovered 20th century man Miles Monroe (writer-director Woody Allen), 200 years later, in Sleeper, 1973.

Sleeper (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Pope's Wife Gives Birth Luna (Diane Keaton), still secretly plotting to turn-in 20th century fugitive Miles (writer-director Woody Allen) to the 22nd century authorities for kidnapping her, plays along with his escape, in Sleeper, 1973.

Hannah And Her Sisters (1986) -- (Movie Clip) It's The Wrong Question Troubled Lee (Barbara Hershey) comes home to her artist lover Frederick (Max Von Sydow) who has stinging observations, before a blow out, in writer-director Woody Allen's Hannah And Her Sisters, 1986.

Sleeper (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Could I Have A Hit? Disguised as a robot and now in the service of 22nd century socialite Luna (Diane Keaton), 20th century fugitive Miles (writer-director Woody Allen) has trouble with the pudding, then the orb, in Sleeper, 1973.

Sleeper (1973) -- (Movie Clip) We Have Certain Artifacts Unfrozen Miles (writer-director Woody Allen) being interrogated about 20th century curiosities by Dr. Tryon (Don Keefer), including Richard Nixon, at the time scandalized but still in office, in Sleeper, 1973.

Love And Death -- (Movie Clip) What's A Jew? The director, writer and star in his opening narration, Prokofiev music preferred over the usual Dixieland jazz, in Woody Allen's Love And Death, 1975, co-starring Diane Keaton.

Manhattan (1979) -- Original Trailer Borrowing the opening from the feature, the original trailer for Woody Allen’s critically acclaimed Manhattan, 1979, starring Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Meryl Streep and Mariel Hemingway.

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