Stuart Schulberg(1922-1979)
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
The son of producer and studio executive
B.P. Schulberg and younger brother of
novelist/screenwriter Budd Schulberg,
Stuart Schulberg was born in Los Angeles and educated at the University
of Chicago. He produced Marshall Plan films for the U.S. government
after World War II, later co-producing two feature films, "No Way Back"
(No Way Back (1953)), named
best West German film in 1954, and "Special Delivery"
(Special Delivery (1955))
with Joseph Cotten and
Eva Bartok. In October 1956, he and brother
Budd formed Schulberg Productions, Inc., which produced
Wind Across the Everglades (1958).
Stuart joined NBC Television in 1961 as co-producer of
David Brinkley's Journal (1961)
and, in 1965, was named producer of NBC's "Sports in Action". After a
period as an independent documentary film producer working on "The
Angry Voices of Watts" (1966) and "The New Voices of Watts" (1968), he
rejoined NBC and was producer of "The
Today (1952) Show" until 1976. Both
Stuart and Budd Schulberg were nominated for Emmys for "Angry Voices".
