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Robert Lieberman, who directed the sci-fi cult traditional Fireplace within the Sky and gained the inaugural DGA Award for Commercials, has died in Los Angeles after a protracted battle with most cancers. He was 75.
His loss of life on July 1 was confirmed by his supervisor, John Bauman.
Lieberman kicked off his 50-plus yr profession as an assistant editor in commercials however by the mid-’70s he had labored his approach as much as directing. He ended up helming greater than a thousand spots for McDonald’s, Hallmark, Oreo amongst numerous others and successful the DGA Award in 1979 and 1995. He labored with expertise starting from spanned from President Invoice Clinton, Ray Charles and Jerry Lewis to Michael Jordan, Anne Hathaway and Kenan Thompson, and far of this work was accomplished via Concord Photos, the corporate he based with companion Stuart Gross.
Lieberman was within the vanguard that introduced a extra cinematic, filmmaker’s eye to tv. He directed a first-season episode of Thirtysomething that many credit score with setting the template for the present’s distinctive, director-focused imaginative and prescient, in line with his son, Nick Lieberman, a filmmaker whose Theater Camp opened this previous weekend. He went on to direct 19 pilots, 16 of which went to collection, together with Gabriel’s Fireplace, Robust Medication, and USA’s The Useless Zone. He additionally did episodes of Dexter, The X-Recordsdata and The Expanse.
In between, Lieberman developed and directed the movies Desk for 5, starring Jon Voight and Richard Crenna; All I Need for Christmas with Thora Birch and Lauren Bacall; and D3: The Mighty Geese.
His son mentioned Lieberman generally shared this message: “My recommendation to people who find themselves attempting to get within the enterprise is you have to be completely fearless and relentless. In order for you it, you have to need it with all the pieces in your being. … I wished to be on this enterprise, and now wanting again over my complete profession, I like that I spent my life on this enterprise. I received to go to work and have enjoyable: Do what I wished to do, create what I wished to create, get up within the morning with clean canvases and exit and paint — and with someone else’s cash. It is craziness, and I received to do it for over 50 years.”
Alongside along with his son Nick, Lieberman is survived by his spouse, Victoria Peters; his daughter, Erin, and son-in-law, producer Trent Othick; sons Lorne and Joey; a step-daughter, Kristen Konvitz, an agent at UTA; three grandchildren; and a sister. Fern Kelman.
Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.
‘Fireplace In The Sky’, TV & Commercials Director Was 75 – Deadline
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