Burt Weissbourd

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Burt Weissbourd is a novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He was born in 1949 and graduated cum laude from Yale University with honors in psychology. While at Yale, he volunteered at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and taught English to college students in Thailand. After college, he wrote, directed, and produced educational films for Gilbert Altschul Productions. He started a finance program at Northwestern University but left to start his own film production company in Los Angeles. He ran that company from 1977 to 1986, producing films such as Ghost Story, with stars like Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, John Houseman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Patricia Neal, and Raggedy Man, starring Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard. The New York Times called Raggedy Man "a movie of sweet, low-keyed charm." In 1987 he started an investment business, which he still runs.