Blomquist, Alan C. 1953–

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BLOMQUIST, Alan C. 1953

(Alan Blomquist)

PERSONAL

Full name, Alan Charles Blomquist; born July 21, 1953, in Arlington, MA; son of Robert C. (a fire chief) and Marjorie H. Blomquist; married Karen Siegel, 1986 (divorced, 1992); married Rebecca Carpenter, December 28, 2000; children: (first marriage) William Hamilton (an actor, as Will Blomquist) and Samuel Ellis (twins). Education: University of Michigan, B.A., film, 1976.

Addresses: Manager Sandra Marsh Management, 9150 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 220, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Producer and director. Also worked as unit production manager and first assistant director, sometimes as Alan Blomquist.

Member: Directors Guild of America.

Awards, Honors: Daytime Emmy Award, outstanding children's special (with others), 1986, for "The War between the Classes," CBS Schoolbreak Special.

CREDITS

Film Executive Producer:

Of Mice and Men, MetroGoldwynMayer, 1992.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Paramount, 1993.

A Little Princess, Warner Bros., 1995.

Spawn, New Line Cinema, 1997.

Chocolat, Miramax, 2000.

View from the Top, Miramax, 2003.

Duplex, Miramax, 2003.

Film Producer:

Dominion, Prism Pictures, 1995.

Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (documentary), Warner Bros., 2003.

Film Coproducer:

Everybody's AllAmerican (also known as When I Fall in Love ), Warner Bros., 1988.

Guilty by Suspicion (also known as La liste noire ), Warner Bros., 1991.

Beautiful Girls, Miramax, 1996.

What Dreams May Come, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1998.

The Cider House Rules, Miramax, 1999.

Bounce, Miramax, 2000.

Taking Lives, Warner Bros., 2004.

Film Supervising Producer:

Growing Pains, New World, 1984.

Heated Vengeance, 1985.

Television Executive Producer; Movies:

Vanishing Point, Fox, 1997.

Television Producer:

"The War between the Classes" (special), CBS School-break Special, CBS, 1985.

The Time of Their Lives (pilot), CBS, 1987.