Jud Kinberg

Jud Kinberg (July 7, 1925 – November 2, 2016) was an American film producer and screenwriter. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his work as a producer on The Collector.

His son is the screenwriter and director Simon Kinberg.

Life and work

Kinberg was born in Brooklyn, NY. He attended the University of North Carolina and earned a Purple Heart and a Silver Star for his service with the U.S. Army during World War II. Kinberg briefly worked in advertising until being recruited to apprentice under producer-actor John Houseman. Together they went on to produce films at MGM including Julius Caesar (1953), starring Marlon Brando; Executive Suite (1954), directed by Robert Wise; Her Twelve Men (1954), featuring Greer Garson and Robert Ryan; Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb (1955), toplined by Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall; Moonfleet (1955), helmed by Fritz Lang; and Lust for Life (1956), which received four Oscar nominations.

In 1978 he was nominated for an Emmy for producing “Quincy M.E.,” the NBC drama starring Jack Klugman as a coroner who investigates suspicious deaths. Later in his career, he worked on TV movies “To Catch a Killer,” “A Stoning in Fulham County,” and “Kane & Abel.”

Kinberg died at 91 of natural causes in his New York City home.

Selected filmography

The films Kinberg worked on include:

Producer

• 1954: Executive Suite
• 1954: Her Twelve Men
• 1955: The Cobweb
• 1955: Moonfleet
• 1956: Lust for Life
• 1965:The Collector
• 1968: The Magus
• 1973: Story of a Love Story

Scriptwriter

• 1963: Siege of the Saxons
• 1964: East of Sudan
• 1972: Vampire Circus

Television

• 1981: The Million Dollar Face
• 1988: A Stoning in Fulham County
• 1992: In the Best Interest of the Children
• 1992: To Catch a Killer

External links

• Jud Kinberg at IMDb