Norman Twain
| Norman Twain | |
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| Born |
September 13, 1930 Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Died | August 6, 2016 (aged 85) |
| Occupation | Producer |
| Spouse(s) | Deanna Deignan Twain |
Norman Twain (September 13, 1930 – August 6, 2016) was an American film and theatre producer.
Born in Atlantic City in 1930, Twain began his career in theatre, producing and directing over 50 stage productions on and off-Broadway in Los Angeles, Chicago, and London which included: Tennessee Williams's Garden District, Maxwell Anderson's The Golden Six, John Osborne's Epitaph for George Dillion, the Franco Zeffirelli production of The Lady of the Camillias, Jean Anouilh's Traveller Without Luggage, the musicals Bajour by Walter Marks and Ernest Kinoy, Henry Sweet Henry by Robert Merrill, Lolita, My Love by Alan Jay Lerner and John Barry, The World of Charles Aznavour and Gilbert Becaud on Broadway, as well as John Guare's Cop-Out, the Tony Richardson-Nicol Williamson production of Hamlet, The Nicol Williamson Late Show, The World of Lenny Bruce, ten separate productions of Vanities by Jack Heifner, Jules Feiffer's Hold Me!, the Milton Katselas production of David Rabe's Streamers in Los Angeles and at the Long Beach Theater Festival, the Tony Richardson production of As You Like It, Cyrano starring Stacy Keach and the Gower Champion production of Our Town.
For Warner Bros, Twain produced Lean on Me, for which he also created the idea and developed the script. It starred Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark, the Principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey. Lean on Me, written by Michael Schiffer, was directed by John Avildsen and won the NAACP Image Award for Best Feature Film of the year.
He created and developed the idea and served as Executive Producer for the HBO film Boycott. Based on a book by Dr. Stewart Burns and directed by Clark Johnson, with Jeffrey Wright, Carmen Ejogo and Terrence Howard, the film dramatized the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott and was nominated as Best Television Film of the Year by the American Film Institute. Boycott also won the NAACP Image Award for Best Television Film of the Year and the Peabody Award.
Twain served as Executive Producer with Strata Films for Heavens Fall, which was directed by Terry Green and starred Timothy Hutton, David Strathairn, Leelee Sobieski, Anthony Mackie, Azura Skye, and Bill Sage. Twain produced Scar, a high definition 3D action horror film written by Zack Ford. In 2008, he produced Spinning into Butter with Lou Pitt and Sarah Jessica Parker, who starred and also produced.
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