Charles H. Joffe Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Charles H. Joffe (July 16, 1929 – July 9, 2008) was an American film producer and comedy talent manager. He is most well known as being, in partnership with Jack Rollins, the producer or executive producer of virtually all of the films directed by Woody Allen. Joffe won the 1977 Academy Award for Best Picture as producer of Allen's Annie Hall.Annie Hall was listed as "A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production", though only Joffe took producer credit and received the Academy Award for Best Picture. Both were Allen's veteran managers and had that credit on all his films from 1969 to 1993. Joffe focused more on Allen, with Rollins focusing on others. Their management clients also included Robert Klein and David Letterman.Joffe was married to set decorator Carol Joffe and was the stepfather of director Nicole Holofcener. He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a week before his 79th birthday, after a long illness.
Jack Rollins and his longtime business partner, Charles Joffe, liked to find young talent to nurture. Joan Rivers told the Chicago Tribune in 1986, "they could take a grain of sand and make it into an industry." That was never more true than with Woody Allen, who came to Jack Rollins' and Charles H. Joffe's Manhattan office in the late 1950s because Woody Allen wanted to write for Nichols and May, the hip comedy act of the era. That wouldn't work out because the comedy duo created their own material, but Rollins and Joffe saw something in the young TV writer. "He'd be dead serious when he read a sketch of his, but it hit us funny," Rollins told the New York Times in 1985. "He didn't know why we were laughing. He'd give a 'what's so funny?' look." Rollins and Joffe encouraged the deadpan Allen to do stand-up night club comedy. It was painful at first. "The first 18 months as a stand-up comedian were horrendous," Jack Rollins said in the 1986 Tribune interview. "Woody was the worst comedian you can possibly imagine -- zero grace as a performer." Finally the tide turned. "He got a smile, then a laugh, and then a cult.".
He launched Woody Allen's film career. After discovering him making a living as a scriptwriter, he got Allen a role in What's New Pussycat (1965). He went on to produce nearly all of Allen's films.
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