Jerry Weintraub

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Jerry Weintraub (born September 26 1937, The Bronx, New York) is a film producer and a former Chairman and CEO of United Artists.

After several years at MCA, he left and formed his own personal management company. Among the acts that Weintraub managed at this time were Joey Bishop, The Four Tops, and singer Jane Morgan. His relationship with Morgan went from professional to personal and the two were married in 1965. They have four children - three daughters plus his son from a previous marriage.^{[citation needed]}

His credits include Nashville, Diner, The Karate Kid, and the 2001 remake of Ocean's Eleven.

He has also managed the careers of such musical acts as Cuba Gooding, Sr. and the Main Ingredient, The Carpenters, Frank Sinatra and The Moody Blues.

Before turning to films, Weintraub's largest entertainment success was as the personal manager of singer and actor John Denver whom he signed in 1970. By 1975 Denver was the highest-selling male artist in the world.^{[citation needed]}

Weintraub's first two films as a producer were Robert Altman's Nashville and Oh, God! starring George Burns and John Denver.

In 1986, the National Association of Theater Owners named Jerry Weintraub the Producer of the Year. In 1991 he was named to the board of the Kennedy Center. Jerry Weintraub was one of the first independent film producers to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.