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Jerome Charles "Jerry" Weintraub (September 26, 1937 – July 6, 2015) was an American talent agent, concert promoter, film producer and actor whose television films won him three Emmys.〔("‘Ocean’s 11′ Producer Jerry Weintraub Dies" ), ''Haute Living'', July 7, 2015〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jerry Weintraub )〕 He began his career as a talent agent, having managed relatively unknown singer John Denver in 1970, developing Denver's success through concerts, television specials and film roles, including ''Oh, God!'' (1977). Weintraub has been credited with making "show business history" by being the first to organize and manage large arena concert tours for singers. Among the other performers whose tours he managed were Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Four Seasons, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, and Led Zeppelin. Following his years as a concert promoter, he began producing films. Among them were director Robert Altman's ''Nashville'' (1975), Barry Levinson's ''Diner'' (1982), the original version of ''The Karate Kid'' (1984) and its 2010 remake, as well as the remake of ''Ocean's Eleven'' (2001) and two sequels to the rebooted version. Later, Weintraub was executive producer of HBO's series ''The Brink'' and HBO's ''Behind the Candelabra'' in 2013, which won an Emmy. In 2014, he won another Emmy as co-producer of ''Years of Living Dangerously'', a television documentary about global warming. In 2011, HBO broadcast a television documentary about Weintraub's life, called ''His Way.'' ==Early years== Weintraub was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, and raised in the Bronx, the son of Rose (née Bass) and Samuel Weintraub. His father was a gem dealer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jerry Weintraub Biography )〕 While growing up, he worked as a theater usher and as a waiter in the Catskills.〔 After several years at MCA, where he first started work as a mailroom clerk, he left and formed his own personal management company. While at MCA, he was assistant to Lew Wasserman, whom he thought of as a father figure.〔 In the 1960s, he co-founded the vocal group The Doodletown Pipers. Among the acts that Weintraub managed at this time were Paul Anka, Shelley Berman, Pat Boone, Joey Bishop, The Four Seasons, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett and singer Jane Morgan, whom he would later marry.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jerry Weintraub」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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