Renowned director Robert Lieberman, best known for his work on the sci-fi cult classic Fire in the Sky, passed away at 75 in Los Angeles after a prolonged battle with cancer.
According to Deadline, the news of Lieberman’s death was confirmed by his manager, John Bauman. Lieberman began his career as an assistant editor in commercials, but his talent quickly propelled him into the director's chair by the mid-1970s. Over the course of his 50-plus-year career, he directed over a thousand commercials for prominent brands like McDonald's, Hallmark, and Oreo, earning accolades such as the DGA Award in 1979 and 1995.
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Alongside his partner Stuart Gross, Lieberman founded Harmony Pictures, a company through which he collaborated with a diverse range of talents, from President Bill Clinton and Ray Charles to Jerry Lewis, Michael Jordan, Anne Hathaway, and Kenan Thompson.
According to Deadline, the news of Lieberman’s death was confirmed by his manager, John Bauman. Lieberman began his career as an assistant editor in commercials, but his talent quickly propelled him into the director's chair by the mid-1970s. Over the course of his 50-plus-year career, he directed over a thousand commercials for prominent brands like McDonald's, Hallmark, and Oreo, earning accolades such as the DGA Award in 1979 and 1995.
Related: The X-Files Found Inspiration for Fox Mulder in a Cult TV Show
Alongside his partner Stuart Gross, Lieberman founded Harmony Pictures, a company through which he collaborated with a diverse range of talents, from President Bill Clinton and Ray Charles to Jerry Lewis, Michael Jordan, Anne Hathaway, and Kenan Thompson.
- 7/18/2023
- by Nivedita Dubey
- CBR
The director of 1993’s enduring classic Fire in the Sky, Bloody Disgusting has learned that Robert Lieberman passed away at the age of 75 earlier this month after a battle with cancer.
Many horror fans consider Fire in the Sky to be the most terrifying alien abduction movie ever made, with one scene in particular being among the scariest in the genre’s history.
Released in theaters in 1993, Fire in the Sky was based on Travis Walton’s book The Walton Experience, which itself was based on Walton’s real-life tales of alien abduction.
In the film’s most harrowing scene, Walton (played by D.B. Sweeney) is experimented on by a group of aliens, first emerging from a slimy cocoon and then being subjected to various forms of extraterrestrial torture. It’s a sequence that once seen is never unseen, frequently popping up on lists of the scariest scenes in horror...
Many horror fans consider Fire in the Sky to be the most terrifying alien abduction movie ever made, with one scene in particular being among the scariest in the genre’s history.
Released in theaters in 1993, Fire in the Sky was based on Travis Walton’s book The Walton Experience, which itself was based on Walton’s real-life tales of alien abduction.
In the film’s most harrowing scene, Walton (played by D.B. Sweeney) is experimented on by a group of aliens, first emerging from a slimy cocoon and then being subjected to various forms of extraterrestrial torture. It’s a sequence that once seen is never unseen, frequently popping up on lists of the scariest scenes in horror...
- 7/17/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Robert Lieberman, who directed the sci-fi cult classic Fire in the Sky and won the inaugural DGA Award for Commercials, has died in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer. He was 75.
His death on July 1 was confirmed by his manager, John Bauman.
Lieberman kicked off his 50-plus year career as an assistant editor in commercials but by the mid-’70s had worked his way up to directing. He ended up helming more than a thousand spots for McDonald’s, Hallmark, Oreo among countless others and winning the DGA Award in 1979 and 1995. He worked with talent ranging from spanned from President Bill Clinton, Ray Charles and Jerry Lewis to Michael Jordan, Anne Hathaway and Kenan Thompson, and much of this work was done through Harmony Pictures, the company he founded with partner Stuart Gross.
Lieberman was in the vanguard that brought a more cinematic, filmmaker’s eye to television. He...
His death on July 1 was confirmed by his manager, John Bauman.
Lieberman kicked off his 50-plus year career as an assistant editor in commercials but by the mid-’70s had worked his way up to directing. He ended up helming more than a thousand spots for McDonald’s, Hallmark, Oreo among countless others and winning the DGA Award in 1979 and 1995. He worked with talent ranging from spanned from President Bill Clinton, Ray Charles and Jerry Lewis to Michael Jordan, Anne Hathaway and Kenan Thompson, and much of this work was done through Harmony Pictures, the company he founded with partner Stuart Gross.
Lieberman was in the vanguard that brought a more cinematic, filmmaker’s eye to television. He...
- 7/17/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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