Gary Hoffman(I)

Gary Hoffman is the Executive Producer of 30 Movies and Miniseries for television including Bastard Out of Carolina for TNT that is the only movie made for television ever invited to compete at Cannes and which also won the Television Critics Award in the Best Movie/Miniseries category. Of his 30 Movies and Miniseries he deficit financed approximately half, and five of the thirty were nominated as Best Picture/Best Miniseries. Some of his notable movie productions are Soul of the Game for HBO (which he also co-wrote) and which Time magazine called one of the two best movies, including all feature films, made about baseball, and Town of the 80'S, a Miniseries for Showtime, which Newsweek ranked among the year's 10 best movies, including all feature films. Some of his other titles include the six hour miniseries The Kennedys and the Fitzgeralds (ABC), the four hour miniseries, Phantom of the Opera (NBC), Bonnie and Clyde: The True Story (FBC) which he also wrote and directed and The Big Heist (A&E) which he wrote. He also co-created and produced the NBC series, Man of the People that starred James Garner.

As an executive Mr. Hoffman served as Senior Vice President Movies for Television at Fox Broadcasting (1994-1995) where he was responsible for eight of the ten highest rated and best reviewed movies in the network's history and was also asked to take that job again in 1999-2000. He also helped found CBS cable (1980-1981) as Vice President of Programming and Production and prior to that he was head of programming for the CBS Owned and Operated Stations.

Mr. Hoffman also has some television history to his credit: He produced, wrote and directed the first series ever produced for Pay Television, Café Manhattan, a variety show originating in New York City which debuted on the experimental CUBE service established by Warner Brothers. He also produced and directed the first network show ever to be recorded on portable video cassette format, Gamblers; Winners and Losers starring David Hartman for the ABC network and he created and produced the first drama series ever produced in the United States for Pay Television, New Day in Eden (66 episodes) for Showtime.

Earlier in his career he produced hundreds of hours of live television for Metromedia, produced the Las Vegas network feed of the Jerry Lewis Telethon for five years and produced Geraldo Rivera's One To One Telethon for many years. While a student at City College of NY he directed plays off off Broadway at the famous Cafe Cino and La Mama theatre. After graduating, planning on becoming a sea captain, he sailed as a merchant marine for three years, wised up, and got hired as a cue card printer on a local NY television show that within a year he was producing.