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Stuart Rosenberg (August 11, 1927 – March 15, 2007) was an American film and television director. He was most noted for his collaborations with actor Paul Newman, whom he directed in Cool Hand Luke (1967), WUSA (1970), Pocket Money (1972), and The Drowning Pool (1975). He was a five-time Directors Guild of America Award nominee, and a Primetime Emmy Award winner.
His other notable films included Question 7 (1961), Voyage of the Damned (1976), The Amityville Horror (1979), Brubaker (1980) and The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984).Noalnd, Claire (March 18, 2007). Stuart Rosenberg, 79; TV, film director. Los Angeles Times Later in his career, he taught directing at the American Film Institute, where his students included Todd Field and Darren Aronofsky.White, Anath (December 14, 2012) The AFI Class of ‘92. RogerEbert.com
Following the U.S.-German co-production Question 7 (1961), filmed in West Berlin, Rosenberg shot the 1965 TV movie Memorandum for a Spy and the 1966 telefilm Fame Is the Name of the Game. In July 1965, he was signed to a non-exclusive contract with actor Jack Lemmon's independent film production company, Jalem Productions, which called for the director to make for them three pictures in five years. This led to his major-studio distributed debut, the Paul Newman hit Cool Hand Luke (1967). Rosenberg had come across Donn Pearce's chain gang novel and developed the film with actor Jack Lemmon's production company Jalem. He was next announced to direct Lemmon in the comedy film The Job Hunter, based on a novel by Allen R. Dodd, for Jalem Productions-Warner Brothers Pictures, but this was abandoned. Also for Jalem Productions, he made The April Fools (1969), with French actress Catherine Deneuve in her American debut opposite Jack Lemmon (who plays the first Rosenberg lead character named H. Brubaker).
Other Rosenberg films include the Newman movies WUSA (1970), Pocket Money (1972) and The Drowning Pool (1975); the Walter Matthau police-detective thriller The Laughing Policeman (1973); the Charles Bronson action picture Love and Bullets (1979); and another action movie Let's Get Harry (1986), for which Rosenberg used the pseudonym Alan Smithee. He was famous for straight dramas and especially crime films. The most acclaimed movie he did after Cool Hand Luke was The Pope of Greenwich Village. Years later, Rosenberg replaced Bob Rafelson on the prison movie Brubaker (1980).
He made his last film, the independent drama My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys in 1991.
In 1992, Rosenberg became a teacher at the American Film Institute. Among his students were Todd Field, Darren Aronofsky, Mark Waters, Scott Silver, Doug Ellin and Rob Schmidt.Kehr, Dave (March 19, 2007). Stuart Rosenberg, Director of TV and Films, Dies at 79. The New York Times
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