Director ANDY CADIFF makes his feature film debut on Leave It
To Beaver after a long and very successful career in television.
Most recently, Cadiff was the Producer/Director of ABC's top-rated Home
Improvement starring Tim Allen from 1992-96. Prior to that, he had numerous
directing credits with such series as Delta, Nurses, Empty Nest and Quantum
Leap.
Producer ROBERT SIMONDS is one of Hollywood's most prolific producers
of motion picture comedies.Leave It To Beaver is the latest in a string
of successful comedy releases, which includes Happy Gilmore , Billy Madison
and the two Problem Child films. Simonds is also the producer of several
upcoming feature comedies, including The Wedding Singer , starring Adam
Sandler and Drew Barrymore (New Line Cinema), Half Baked (Universal), Dirtywork
(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and The Waterboy (Touchstone).
Simonds formed The Robert Simonds Company, his Universal Pictures-based
motion picture company, in 1994.
Screenwriter BRIAN LEVANT is a true "Beaverphile" working
on a labor of love. A dedicated fan of the original series, Levant was also
the award-winning director of the television series The New Leave It To
Beaver and in 1983, wrote the CBS movie-of-the-week, Still The Beaver.
A successful feature film director, Levant's credits include Jingle All
The Way, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Flintstones for Universal and
Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, Beethoven and Little Giants.
For television, Levant served as writer/producer of the long-running series'
Mork & Mindy and Happy Days.
Leave It To Beaver is screenwriter LON DIAMOND's first produced feature
film, having been a script doctor on many other Hollywood features. It is
the second time he has collaborated with screenwriter Brian Levant, having
also worked together on The Flintstones for Universal and Steven Spielberg's
Amblin Entertainment.
Diamond hails from Long Island, NY. He attended Cornell University and UCLA
Film School and began his entertainment career as a television producer.
He was the co-creator and co-executive producer of the groundbreaking and
critically acclaimed Parker Lewis Can't Lose.
Executive Producer BEN MYRON currently has a very full plate. In
addition to executive producing Leave It To Beaver, Myron recently finished
the Mike Figgis-directed One Night Stand, starring Wesley Snipes and Nastassia
Kinski; Telling Lies In America, starring Kevin Bacon and Brad Renfro and
the Joe Eszterhas-penned satire An Alan Smithee Film, starring Sylvester
Stallone and Whoopi Goldberg. He is currently producing Mr. Magoo, directed
by Stanley Tong. Just on the horizon are The Mod Squad and Barney's Great
Adventure.
Myron produced his first feature film in 1987, Checking Out, for Warner
Brothers. Another Myron film, One False Move, was nominated for five Independent
Spirit Awards.
Myron started in the film business as the owner of a chain of theaters in
the Bay Area.
Executive Producer DAVID HELPERN began his prestigious career writing
about film and politics for two weekly Boston newspapers. Shortly thereafter
he directed and co-produced the feature length documentary about film director
Nicholas Ray, I'm a Stranger Here Myself . Two years later he produced and
directed the Academy Award nominated feature-length documentary about the
Hollywood blacklist, Hollywood On Trial , narrated by John Huston.
While continuing to write about film and politics, Helpern co-authored the
story for the film Between The Lines , as well as directed Something Short
of Paradise , starring Susan Sarandon and David Steinberg.
After moving to Los Angeles, Helpern produced or executive produced the
films: Dead Heat , Something Special , Hidden II: The Spawning . He was
also a creative consultant on the long-running half-hour syndicated TV series
Kids, Inc ., now airing on The Disney Channel.
Presently, he is developing a number of projects including Tomorrow's Child
, The Lone Ranger , Flash Gordon and Sinbad at the Edge of the World .
Executive Producer LYNN AROST had spent the last 20 months as president
of Telvan Productions. Prior to that, Arost was partnered with Jessica Lange
at Prairie Films. She co-produced Blue Sky at Orion, for which Lange won
an Academy Award . Presently, Arost is one of the producing partners of
A Thousand Acres , the screen adaptation of James Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning
novel, starring Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Jason Leigh and
Jason Robards.
Arost also worked as president of production at The Fields Company, and
from 1981-84 was vice president of production at MGM, working on a variety
of films including A Christmas Story .
Prior to her work in production, Arost worked as a school teacher at a private
school in Los Angeles.
Director of Photography THOMAS DEL RUTH brings an impressive list
of credits to Leave It To Beaver. The veteran has served as Director of
Photography on The Mighty Ducks, Look Who's Talking, Look Who's Talking
Too, Quicksilver, Stand By Me, The Breakfast Club, Impulse and Death Wish
II, among others.
Del Ruth began his film career as an assistant cameraman and camera operator,
serving in those capacities on over 36 feature films, including Butch Cassidy
And The Sundance Kid.
Production Designer PERRY ANDELIN BLAKE joins Producer Robert Simonds
for the fourth time on Leave It To Beaver. Previously, Blake worked on the
Simonds productions Bullet Proof, Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, all for
Universal.
Blake started his entertainment career art directing commercials for such
clients as Coca Cola, Reebok, Nike and Nissan.
Blake earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University and
initially came to Los Angeles to work with noted architect Frank Gehry.
His film and architecture work has appeared in books and magazines like
"Progressive Architecture," "Elle Decor" and "Experimental
Architecture."
Additionally, his designs, covering 30 years of fashion trends, will soon
be seen in the Peter Masterson film, The Only Thrill, starring Diane Keaton,
Sam Sheperd and Diane Lane.
In television, he has been nominated by the Television Academy of Arts and
Sciences ten times, including four years in a row for Quantum Leap, and
won the Emmy for the retro, look-into-the-future costumes of Battlestar:
Galactica.
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