Jack Rollins Net Worth

Jack Rollins Net Worth is
$1.2 Million

Jack Rollins Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Jack Rollins was born on March 23, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA as Jacob Rabinowitz. He was a producer, known for Late Night with David Letterman (1982), Vidurnaktis Paryziuje (2011) and Viki, Kristina, Barselona (2008). He was married to Pearl (Jane) Rose Levine. He died on June 18, 2015 in Manhattan, New York City.

Date Of BirthMarch 23, 1915
Place Of BirthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
ProfessionProducer, Actor, Soundtrack
Star SignAries
#Trademark
1Frequent co-producer or executive producer of 'Woody Allen' films.
#Fact
1Legendary talent manager Jack Rollins' client list played a key role in defining comedy in the last half of the 20th century and beyond; Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, David Letterman, Robin Williams, Joan Rivers, Billy Crystal, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Paula Poundstone, Martin Short, Robert Klein -- all were on his client roster at one point or another.
2Along the way, Jack Rollins helped create the role of the modern show business manager. "When I went into this business in 1946, there weren't managers. There was only Milton Berle's mother" he said in a 1988 Chicago Tribune interview.
3Born Jacob Rabinowitz on March 23, 1915, in Brooklyn, he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and earned a degree at City College of New York.
4Jack Rollins and his longtime business partner, Charles Joffe, who died in 2008, liked to find young talent to nurture. "Rollins," Joan Rivers told the Tribune in 1986, "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' Manhattan office in the late 1950s because he wanted to write for Nichols and May, the hip comedy act of the era. That wouldn't work out because the duo created their own material, but Jack Rollins and Charles 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. "Woody didn't know why we were laughing. He'd give a 'what's so funny?' look." Jack Rollins and Charles Joffe encouraged the deadpan Allen to do stand-up. Painful at first, "The first 18 months as a stand-up comedian were horrendous,' 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. "Woody got a smile, then a laugh, and then a cult." Woody Allen never forgot the manager who stuck by him. Allen continued to list Rollins as a producer on his films -- including "Irrational Man," -- long after the manger retired. "Jack Rollins had not been involved with his films for many years," Robert Weide, director of the 2012 film "Woody Allen: A Documentary," said in an interview, "I'm not sure if they even talked much." Weide asked Allen why he continued to give Rollins the credit. "Because without Jack," Allen replied, "I wouldn't have a career. Rollins was one of the very few people in my life who lived up to the hype about him. All the stories about how great Jack Rollins was are true".
5Rollins wasn't aiming for a show business career in particular, according to his daughter Francesca. "He didn't know what he wanted to do," Francesca said. "He had to find something where he could stay up late, and get up late and not require him to punch a clock. That wasn't his style." The answer came when he was in the Army during World War II, stationed on a base in India. He got involved in a satirical revue about Army life and decided show business was his calling. Back in New York after the war, he was looking for plays to produce without much luck when he became a manager by "sheer accident," Jack Rollins was quoted as saying in the 1991 book "The Compass," about the improvisational-group that gave Nichols and May their start. "I was strolling in the Village courting my wife," Rollins said. "We peered into the window of a tiny restaurant, and there was Harry Belafonte, flipping hamburgers." Rollins' soon-to-be wife, Jane, (deceased 2012) recognized Belafonte as a struggling pop singer seeking to switch to folk music. Belafonte became Jack Rollins' first major client. Rollins helped forge a new image for the singer, leading to early successes. Rollins and Belafonte had a bitter falling-out after a few years, but Rollins had earned a reputation as a manager who had solid instincts when it came to building careers. Jack Rollins and Charles Joffe were known for taking on only a few clients at a time. Eventually, Charles Joffe worked almost solely with Allen and Jack Rollins focused on David Letterman. Jack Rollins was listed as executive producer on the NBC show "Late Night with David Letterman" from 1983 to 1991.
6For all his influence on comedy, Jack Rollins -- who had a rumpled look and often sported a cigar -- was known as someone who couldn't tell a joke. But there were funny stories about him, including one that Billy Crystal told the Tribune in 1986. Crystal was doing stand-up in 1974 when Jack Rollins came to see him in a Manhattan club. After the performance, a nervous Crystal offered Rollins a ride home, which turned out to be even more nerve-wracking because the manager spent the drive criticizing his act. Finally, they reached Rollins' home. "He got to his front door," Crystal said, "and he headed back to my car. I thought he was going to say something like, 'I thought you were terrific' or 'I didn't mean to hurt your feelings,' but he said to me, 'Would you mind taking me back? I just realized I drove over there tonight and left my car.'" Crystal said, "Jack's notes on my work always meant everything to me. To me he was a real Giant. Referring to Rollins as an 'old person' is extremely impolite. Rollins (b:March 23, 1915-to-d:June 18, 2015) was a Centenarian." Rollins' wife, Jane, died in 2013. Rollins is survived by daughters Susan, Francesca, and Hillary, and four grandchildren.
7He was drafted into the Army during WWII. He spent most of the war in India, decoding communications. One of his commanding officers was movie star Melvyn Douglas, who staged shows for troops in the China-Burma-India theater. He helped Rollins with contacts to get started as a producer after the war.
8His father, a blacksmith in Kiev, became a garment worker in New York.
9He was a producer and talent manager whose clients included Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Lenny Bruce, and the comedy team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
10Co-produced nearly all of Woody Allen films ever since 1969, except Love and Death (1975).

Producer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Irrational Man2015co-executive producer
Magic in the Moonlight2014co-executive producer
Blue Jasmine2013co-executive producer
To Rome with Love2012co-executive producer
Midnight in Paris2011co-executive producer
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger2010co-executive producer
Whatever Works2009co-executive producer
Vicky Cristina Barcelona2008co-executive producer
Cassandra's Dream2007co-executive producer
Scoop2006co-executive producer
Match Point2005co-executive producer
Melinda and Melinda2004co-executive producer
Anything Else2003co-executive producer
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show2002Video documentary executive producer
Hollywood Ending2002co-executive producer
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion2001co-executive producer
Small Time Crooks2000co-executive producer
Sweet and Lowdown1999co-executive producer
Celebrity1998co-executive producer
Deconstructing Harry1997co-executive producer
Everyone Says I Love You1996co-executive producer
Mighty Aphrodite1995co-executive producer
Bullets Over Broadway1994co-executive producer
Manhattan Murder Mystery1993executive producer
Rick Reynolds: Only the Truth Is Funny1993TV Movie executive producer
Husbands and Wives1992executive producer
Late Night with David Letterman1982-1992TV Series executive producer - 234 episodes
Shadows and Fog1991executive producer
Alice1990executive producer
Crimes and Misdemeanors1989executive producer
New York Stories1989executive producer - segment "Oedipus Wrecks"
Late Night with David Letterman: 7th Anniversary Special1989TV Movie executive producer
Another Woman1988executive producer
Late Night with David Letterman: 6th Anniversary Special1988TV Movie executive producer
September1987executive producer
Radio Days1987executive producer
David Letterman's 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival1986TV Movie executive producer
Hannah and Her Sisters1986executive producer
The Purple Rose of Cairo1985executive producer
Broadway Danny Rose1984executive producer
Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta1984TV Movie executive producer
Zelig1983executive producer
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell1982TV Movie documentary producer
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy1982executive producer - uncredited
Stardust Memories1980executive producer
Manhattan1979producer - uncredited
Interiors1978producer - uncredited
Annie Hall1977producer - uncredited
The Front1976executive producer - uncredited
Sleeper1973executive producer - uncredited
The Ted Bessell Show1973TV Movie producer
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask1972producer - uncredited
The Dick Cavett Show1969-1971TV Series executive producer - 2 episodes
Bananas1971executive producer - uncredited
Don't Drink the Water1969producer - uncredited
The Woody Allen Special1969TV Special documentary executive producer
Take the Money and Run1969producer - uncredited

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Broadway Danny Rose1984Jack Rollins
Stardust Memories1980Studio Executive

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
1989 Johnnie Walker National Comedy Search1989TV Movie special thanks
Crossing the Bridge1992thanks
1990 Johnnie Walker National Comedy Search1990TV Movie special thanks

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Woody Allen: A Documentary2012DocumentaryHimself
American Masters1996-2011TV Series documentaryHimself
Funny Already: A History of Jewish Comedy2004TV Movie documentaryHimself
To Woody Allen from Europe with Love1980DocumentaryHimself

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards2015TV SpecialHimself - In Memoriam

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1994CableACECableACE AwardsStand-Up Comedy SpecialRick Reynolds: Only the Truth Is Funny (1993)
1992Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program (Series)Late Night with David Letterman (1982)
1991Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety, Music or Comedy ProgramLate Night with David Letterman (1982)
1990Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety, Music or Comedy SeriesLate Night with David Letterman (1982)
1989Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety, Music or Comedy ProgramLate Night with David Letterman (1982)
1988Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety, Music or Comedy ProgramLate Night with David Letterman (1982)
1988Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety, Music or Comedy ProgramLate Night with David Letterman (1982)
1987Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety, Music or Comedy ProgramLate Night with David Letterman (1982)
1986Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety, Music or Comedy ProgramLate Night with David Letterman (1982)
1985Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety, Music or Comedy ProgramLate Night with David Letterman (1982)
1984Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety, Music or Comedy ProgramLate Night with David Letterman (1982)
1981Daytime EmmyDaytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety SeriesThe David Letterman Show (1980)
1971Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety Series - TalkThe Dick Cavett Show (1968)
1970Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Variety or Musical SeriesThe Dick Cavett Show (1968)

Known for movies

Source
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