Tony Krantz
| Tony Krantz | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 16, 1959 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | television executive, producer, writer, and director |
Tony Krantz (born June 16, 1959) is an American television executive, producer, writer, and director. Krantz started his career in the American entertainment industry as an agent, and spent 15 years at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) working in capacities ranging from mailroom trainee and messenger at the start of his career, to eventually running the Primetime Television Department, where he personally packaged ER, Twin Peaks, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place and The West Wing, among many other television series. Under his leadership, there were 32 shows on the primetime lineup that CAA represented when Krantz left to start the next part of his career. After leaving CAA, Krantz transitioned into producing television, and was one of the founders of Imagine Television and its CEO. Krantz left Imagine in 2002 to pursue a somewhat different path on the creative side of the industry as a film director. He has since directed three films, Sublime, Otis, and The Big Bang, and is currently the principal and owner of the independent production company, Flame Ventures.
Krantz was born on June 16, 1959, in New York City to Jewish-American #1 bestselling novelist Judith Krantz and film producer and writer Stephen Falk Krantz. Krantz graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1977 where he was senior class president, and then went on to college at the University of California, Berkeley. Krantz worked as a concert promoter at Berkeley, producing the Berkeley Jazz Festival in 1980 among many other punk rock and rock concerts which would later influence his work in many ways. Krantz says he worked on the music side of the entertainment business in college because that is what was available to him in the college setting, but he ultimately wanted to work in film and TV because he felt it was “more interesting, complex and dimensionalized.” Krantz graduated from Berkeley in June 1981 with a degree in business administration.
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