Burt Weissbourd
- Producer
Burt Weissbourd is a novelist,
screenwriter and producer of feature films. He
graduated cum laude from Yale University, with honors in psychology.
During his student years, he volunteered at the Museum of Modern Art in
Paris and taught English to college students in Thailand. After he
graduated, he wrote, directed, and produced educational films for
Gilbert Altschul Productions. He began a finance program at the
Northwestern University Graduate School of Business, but left to start
his own film production company in Los Angeles. He managed that company
from 1977 until 1986, producing films including "Ghost Story" starring
Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, John Houseman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and
Patricia Neal, and "Raggedy Man" starring Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard. In
1987, he founded an investment business, which he still runs.