Kirkpatrick, David

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KIRKPATRICK, David


PERSONAL


Education: Attended the California Institute of Arts.


Addresses: Office Event Movie Company, 3400 Riverside Dr., Suite 600, Burbank, CA 91505.


Career: Producer and actor. Paramount Pictures, story analyst, 1976; United Artists, head of Sidney Beckerman's production company, c. late 1970s; Paramount, executive director of production, 1982, vice presidentproduction, 1984, executive vice presidentproduction, 1985; Weintraub Entertainment Group, president of motion picture division, 198789; Paramount, president of motion picture group, 199091; also held production positions with Walt Disney and Touchstone Pictures; has worked as a swing gang (filmset carpenters) member.


Awards, Honors: Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award, best miniseries or motion picture made for television (with others), 1996, both for Rasputin; Independent Spirit Award, best first feature (with Don Roos and Michael Besman), 1999, for The Opposite of Sex; Ray Stark Scholarship, California Institute of Arts, for outstanding creative achievement in film.


CREDITS


Film Work:

(With Lloyd Schwartz and Sherwood Schwartz) Producer, The Brady Bunch Movie, Paramount, 1995.

Producer, The Evening Star, Paramount, 1996.

Executive producer, Big Night, Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1996.

Producer, A Smile Like Yours, Paramount, 1997.

(With Michael Besman) Producer, The Opposite of Sex, Sony Pictures Classics, 1998.

(With Don Roos and Besman) Producer, Bruno (also known as The Dress Code ), New Angel, 1999.

Producer, The Whole Shebang, 2 Match, 2001.

Executive producer, Barely Legal, 2001.

Executive producer, After School Special, Barely Legal Productions, 2003.


Film Appearances:

TV film editor, A Cry in the Dark (also known as Evil Angels ), 1988.

Television Work; Movies:

Executive producer, The Substitute, USA Network, 1993.

Executive producer, Rasputin (also known as Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny ), HBO, 1996.

Producer, Let It Be Me (also known as Love Dance ), Starz!, 1998.


Television Work; Pilots:

Executive producer, SPQR: Gladiators of Rome, syndicated, 2002.


Television Appearances; Movies:

Firefighter, Ratbag Hero, 1991.


Television Appearances; Episodic:

Vince Banks, "Private Lives, Public Faces," The Flying Doctors, 1988.


WRITINGS


Screenplays:

Dynamite Woman, New World Pictures, 1976.

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, 1976.

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