Born December 30, 1945· New York City, New York, USA
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Emerging from a Jewish family in New York City, he earned a Chinese-studies degree at Yale in 1968 before turning to filmmaking, a shift sparked by friendships with student filmmakers that led to his first experimental feature, The Girl Who Returned (1969). After early work with Cannon Films and credits on productions such as Saturday Night Fever and Rocky, he co-founded Troma Entertainment with M…
