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Robert F. Colesberry, Jr. is a Actor and Producer American born on 7 march 1946 at Philadelphia (USA)

Robert F. Colesberry, Jr.

Robert F. Colesberry, Jr.
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Nationality USA
Birth 7 march 1946 at Philadelphia (USA)
Death 9 february 2004 (at 57 years) at New York City (USA)

Robert F. "Bob" Colesberry, Jr. (March 7, 1946–February 9, 2004) was an American film and television producer, best known as a co-creator of the television series The Wire (2002–2008) for HBO, executive producer of the miniseries The Corner (2000), and a producer for Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985), Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning (1988), and Billy Crystal's 61* (2001). Colesberry was also an occasional actor.

Biography

In 1992, Colesberry was married to Karen L. Thorson; Thorson was also a filmmaker and producer on The Wire.

Colesberry was a longtime resident of both New York City and Amagansett, New York.

Best films

The Devil's Own (1997)
(Producer)
K-PAX (2001)
(Producer)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
(Producer)
After Hours (1985)
(Producer)

Usually with

Alan Parker
Alan Parker
(3 films)
Bill Forsyth
Bill Forsyth
(2 films)
Mike Starr
Mike Starr
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert F. Colesberry, Jr. (13 films)

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Actor

Billy Bathgate, 1h42
Directed by Robert Benton, Brian W. Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Steven Hill, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi
Rating58% 2.94922.94922.94922.94922.9492
Billy Behan is a poor teenage boy from the Bronx. One day he catches the attention of gangster Dutch Schultz. Changing his last name to Bathgate, after a local street, he goes to work for Schultz's organization, serving mostly as a gopher for Schultz. Billy is present when Schultz murders his former partner Bo Weinberg, who Schultz believes betrayed him. Schultz then begins a relationship with Weinberg's beautiful, married, girlfriend, Drew Preston.

Producer

K-PAX
K-PAX (2001)
, 2h1
Directed by Iain Softley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films based on science fiction novels, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, David Patrick Kelly, Celia Weston
Roles Producer
Rating73% 3.698753.698753.698753.698753.69875
After claiming he is an extraterrestrial from the planet 'K-PAX', 1,000 light years away in the Lyra constellation, prot (uncapitalized and pronounced with a long O) is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan. There, psychiatrist Dr. Mark Powell attempts to cure him of his apparent delusions. However, prot is unwavering in his ability to provide cogent answers to questions about himself, K-PAX and its civilizations. Dr. Powell introduces him to a group of astrophysicists, to whom prot displays a level of knowledge that puzzles them.
61*
61* (2001)
, 2h9
Directed by Billy Crystal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Thomas Jane, Barry Pepper, Anthony Michael Hall, Richard Masur, Bruce McGill, Chris Bauer
Roles Producer
Rating76% 3.846593.846593.846593.846593.84659
In 1998, the family of the late Roger Maris goes to Busch Stadium to witness Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals break their father's record with a 62nd home run. Maris' widow, Pat, is hospitalized due to complications from arrhythmia and watches the game on television from a hospital bed.
The Devil's Own, 1h51
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Political films, Conflit nord-irlandais, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Treat Williams, Rubén Blades, George Hearn
Roles Producer
Rating61% 3.0997553.0997553.0997553.0997553.099755
In 1972, eight-year-old Francis "Frankie" McGuire sees his father gunned down due to his Irish republican sympathies. In September 1992, the grown-up Frankie (Brad Pitt) and three other I.R.A. gunmen are involved in a shootout in Belfast when Special Air Service commandos attempt to capture him. 18 British military personnel are killed or wounded. One gunman is killed and another, Desmond, is wounded as Frankie and the last gunman, Sean Phelan (Paul Ronan), escape. An SAS agent asks the wounded man where Frankie is. Desmond is fatally shot by the agent after he says "up your arse". Hiding in the countryside, Frankie and his friend Martin MacDuf (David O'Hara) see a British Army helicopter circling overhead and decide they need Stinger missiles.
The Scarlet Letter, 2h15
Directed by Roland Joffé
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Edward Hardwicke, Robert Prosky, Roy Dotrice
Roles Producer
Rating53% 2.659362.659362.659362.659362.65936
It is 1667 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and an uneasy truce exists between local Puritans and their neighbours, the Algonquian. Chief Metacomet (Eric Schweig) succeeds his father Massasoit as head of the latter just as a new colonist, Hester Prynne (Demi Moore) arrives overseas from England. As Hester waits for her husband - who is due to follow shortly after - she falls for a young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman). When it emerges that Roger Prynne has likely been killed by Native Americans, they become inseparable lovers.
Being Human, 2h2
Directed by Bill Forsyth
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Robin Williams, John Turturro, Bill Nighy, Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Carlyle, Simon McBurney
Roles Producer
Rating53% 2.6500052.6500052.6500052.6500052.650005
In the first incarnation, which appears to be a caveman, a man's family is taken from him by raiders due to his cowardice and hesitation. Before his wife is taken away, she says, "Don't lose the children!"
The Road to Wellville, 1h58
Directed by Alan Parker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Dana Carvey, Michael Lerner
Roles Producer
Rating58% 2.9484652.9484652.9484652.9484652.948465
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg opened a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he practiced his unusual methods for maintaining health, including colonic irrigation, electrical stimulus and sexual abstinence, vegetarianism and physical exercise. The sanitarium attracts well-to-do patients including William and Eleanor Lightbody, who are suffering from poor health following the death of their child. On their way to Battle Creek they meet Charles Ossining, hoping to make a fortune by exploiting the fad for health food cereals.
Billy Bathgate, 1h42
Directed by Robert Benton, Brian W. Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Steven Hill, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi
Roles Producer
Rating58% 2.94922.94922.94922.94922.9492
Billy Behan is a poor teenage boy from the Bronx. One day he catches the attention of gangster Dutch Schultz. Changing his last name to Bathgate, after a local street, he goes to work for Schultz's organization, serving mostly as a gopher for Schultz. Billy is present when Schultz murders his former partner Bo Weinberg, who Schultz believes betrayed him. Schultz then begins a relationship with Weinberg's beautiful, married, girlfriend, Drew Preston.
Come See the Paradise, 2h18
Directed by Alan Parker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Prison films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Caroline Junko King, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.3440753.3440753.3440753.3440753.344075
In 1936, Jack McGurn (Quaid) is a motion picture projectionist, involved in a campaign of harassment against non-union theaters in New York City. One such attack turns fatal, as one of his fellow union members starts a fire. McGurn's boss, knowing that the feelings of guilt would likely cause Jack to go to the police, urges him to leave the area. Jack moves to Los Angeles where his brother Gerry lives. Jack's role as a "sweatshop lawyer" strains an already-rocky relationship with Gerry who is willing to have any job, barely keeping his family afloat during the Great Depression.
Mississippi Burning, 2h8
Directed by Alan Parker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about racism
Actors Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, R. Lee Ermey, Michael Rooker, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif
Roles Producer
Rating77% 3.898943.898943.898943.898943.89894
In 1964, three civil rights workers who organize a voter registry for minorities in Jessup County Mississippi, go missing. The FBI sends two agents, Rupert Anderson (Hackman) and Alan Ward (Dafoe) to investigate. The pair find it difficult to conduct interviews with the local townspeople, as Sheriff Stuckey (Sartain) and his deputies exert influence over the public and are linked to a branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
Housekeeping, 1h57
Directed by Bill Forsyth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Christine Lahti, Anne Pitoniak, Wayne Robson, Antony Holland
Roles Producer
Rating71% 3.5931553.5931553.5931553.5931553.593155
Teen sisters Ruth and Lucille, raised by a grandmother after their mother's suicide, end up living with an aunt in a western U.S. town called Fingerbone after the grandmother dies.
After Hours, 1h37
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée
Actors Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, John Heard
Roles Producer
Rating75% 3.798863.798863.798863.798863.79886
Paul Hackett, a word processor, meets Marcy Franklin in a local cafe in New York. They discuss their common interest in Henry Miller. Marcy leaves Paul her number and informs him that she lives with a sculptor named Kiki Bridges, who makes and sells plaster of Paris paperweights resembling cream cheese bagels. Later in the night, under the pretense of buying a paperweight, Paul visits Marcy, taking a cab to her apartment. On his way to visit Marcy, a $20 bill is blown out the window of the cab, leaving him with only some spare pocket change. The cab driver is furious that he cannot pay, thereby beginning the first in a long series of misadventures for Paul that turn hostile through no fault of his own. At the apartment Paul meets the sculptor Kiki and Marcy, and comes across a collection of photographs and medications which imply that Marcy is severely disfigured from burns on her legs and torso. As a result of this implication, and as a result of a strained conversation with Marcy, Paul abruptly slips out of the apartment.
Reckless
Reckless (1984)
, 1h33
Directed by James Foley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Cliff De Young, Kenneth McMillan, Lois Smith, Adam Baldwin
Roles Producer
Rating61% 3.097743.097743.097743.097743.09774
Teenage outcast Johnny Rourke (Aidan Quinn) falls for upper-class cheerleader Tracey Prescott (Daryl Hannah). A random draw at the high school 'Tin Can-Can' dance pairs the two. Worlds collide and opposites attract as the two fall in love. Living dangerously, Rourke's anti-social behavior clashes with the privileged socialite Prescott. Hopes dashed, future prospects dim and the omnipresent American Steel mill looming large in the background of this one-industry-town, Rourke comes to grips with his estranged mother and recently deceased father (Kenneth McMillan). Meanwhile, Tracey is forced to decide between her stable longtime boyfriend Randy Daniels (Adam Baldwin) and Rourke.
Little Girl, Big Tease, 1h26
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films
Actors Rebecca Brooke
Roles Producer
Rating53% 2.68662.68662.68662.68662.6866
Virginia, the 16-year-old daughter of a wealthy businessman, is kidnapped by a two men, J.D. and Dakota, and Alva Coward, a woman who is her high school economics teacher. While the details of the payout of the $2 million ransom are being worked out by J.D. and Alva, Virginia is raped by the muscle-man of the outfit and is comforted by the woman, whom she has sex with. Virginia also has sex with the boss of the outfit. She enjoys having sex with the three and helps them escape after she is ransomed.