Jud Kinberg

Jud Kinberg (July 7, 1925 – November 2, 2016) was an American film producer and screenwriter. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his work as a producer on The Collector.

His son is the screenwriter and director Simon Kinberg.

Kinberg was born in Brooklyn, NY. He attended the University of North Carolina and earned a Purple Heart and a Silver Star for his service with the U.S. Army during World War II.^[1] Kinberg briefly worked in advertising until being recruited to apprentice under producer-actor John Houseman. Together they went on to produce films at MGM including Julius Caesar (1953), starring Marlon Brando; Executive Suite (1954), directed by Robert Wise; Her Twelve Men (1954), featuring Greer Garson and Robert Ryan; Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb (1955), toplined by Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall; Moonfleet (1955), helmed by Fritz Lang; and Lust for Life (1956), which received four Oscar nominations.^[2]

In 1978 he was nominated for an Emmy for producing “Quincy M.E.,” the NBC drama starring Jack Klugman as a coroner who investigates suspicious deaths. Later in his career, he worked on TV movies “To Catch a Killer,” “A Stoning in Fulham County,” and “Kane & Abel.”^[3]

Kinberg died at 91 of natural causes in his New York City home.

The films Kinberg worked on include:^[4]

• Jud Kinberg at IMDb