Joshua D Maurer


Joshua D. Maurer is an award winning film maker, recognized as one of Hollywood’s preeminent film makers of historical dramas and literary adaptations .
He is know for his meticulous research, historical accuracy and his passion for producing projects of exceptionally high quality and excellence.

He is the president of City Entertainment, along with his wife & producing partner Alixandre Witlin. Regarded by many as one of best motion picture and television production companies in the USA,  if not the world.  With their projects backing this up with a highly impressive 32 Emmy nominations and wins,  including 7 Golden Globes. WGA, DGA, SAG, NAAP, Satellite, PGA, Prism, Gracie Award, Imagen and Alma honours, this is just to name a few of the many accolades that others have awarded their highly and critically acclaimed projects.

Joshua D. Maurer has a passion for excellence which may be part of the reason why Joshua is the only producer in the history of the Producers Guild of America to be awarded
two nominations in the same category for the prestigious David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award for Longform Television

In addition, to producing Joshua is also a screenwriter, having written for HBO, Showtime, ABC, NBC, CBS, FX, Fox, AMC, A&E, Lifetime, Hallmark Hall of fame, Paramount, Lionsgate, FTVS, Sony, Spike and Miramax.

Born and raised in New Jersey , he attended West Orange High School and Sarah Lawrence College , where he obtained a B.A. degree in political science and appeared in many student stage productions.
He also appeared professionally at the Whole Theatre Company.
After college he set out on a short trip to Europe and ended up staying in Paris for eight months, partially supporting himself with modeling jobs.
Responding to a premonition, he went straight from there to Los Angeles, and within two weeks was cast in TOUR OF DUTY.

As an actor Joshua is best known for his portrayal of Private Roger Horn in the acclaimed television series Tour of Duty.
He later went on to star in a number of television movies and films.

 


Joshua D Maurer writing on the www.HUM90.com message board at the Tour of Duty Mini Convention
Photo taken by Ernie (Ernest Johnson), from the business centre of the Burbank Airport Marriott hotel.

Filmography for Joshua D. Maurer

Actor - Filmography

Gettysburg - 1993
credited as Josh Mauer .... Colonel James C. Rice

Taken Away - 1989  - Tom

Tour of Duty -
TV Series
Private Roger Horn -1987/88 First series  21 episodes  
See more pictures of Private Roger Horn here - The Roger Horn Picture Gallery

Buy Tour Of Duty on DVD with the original music

 

 

Joshua D. Maurer -Producer - Filmography

Amy Winehouse
  - Producer -- Pre Production

Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with The Rolling Stones - Producer -  Script

Desperados - TV Mini series - Executive producer - optioned

The Boy in The suitcase - TV Movie - Executive producer - optioned

Muscle Shoals –Tv series
Executive Producer -- announced 2019,

Muscle Shoals, a drama based on the life of Rick Hall, producer of the legendary Muscle Shoals sound, has sold to ABC for development under a straight-to-series model.
The project hails from Global Road Entertainment, Johnny Depp and Christie Dembrowski’s Infinitum Nihil, Richard Branson’s Virgin Produced, and Joshua D. Maurer and Alixandre Witlin’s City Entertainment. The drama has been in development at Global Road since 2016.
Emmy-nominated Bettina Gilois (Bessie) is writing the drama based on Hall’s life as chronicled in his autobiography The Man from Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame and the acclaimed Sundance documentary Muscle Shoals.

Read  the full article here
https://deadline.com/2018/04/johnny-depp-produced-muscle-shoals-global-road-entertainment-set-abc-1202376921/


2018
I Feel Bad – TV Series -Comedy
 13 episodes as Executive Producer-
Emet is the perfect mom, boss, wife ,friend, and daughter.Okay she’s not perfect. In fact, she’s just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure , she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband David, or when she pretends not to know her kids, when they misbehave in public. …..But nobody can have it all without making a few mistakes. …
Written by NBC

2017

Howards End


4 episodes as Executive Producer.
Synopsis
The social and class divisions in the early 20th century England, through the intersection of three families – the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels ,and the lower middle class Basts.

Stars:  Matthew Macfadyen , Haley Atwell & Philippa Coulthard.

Papillon – Motion picture
Executive Producer

 

 

Synopsis
Based on the international best-selling autobiographic books “Papillon” and “Banco",
the film follows the epic story of Henri “Papillon” Charričre (Charlie Hunnam),
a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil’s Island.
Determined to regain his freedom,
Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with a convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega
(Academy Award winner Rami Malek, Mr Robot, Bohemian Rhapsody),
who in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon’s escape.

 https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/papillon

2016
The Last Tycoon – tv series – Executive Producer


Matt Bomer (Monroe Stahr) & Lily Collins as Celia Brady

Matt Bomer as Monroe Stahr

Kelsey Grammer , Matt Bomer  & Lily Collins

Kelsey Grammer as Pat Brady

Synopsis
Centres on Hollywood’s first wunderkind studio executive in the 1930’s,
Monroe Stahr and the power struggle between him and his mentor and current head of the studio Pat Brady.
Starring : Kelsey Grammer , Matt Bomer  & Lily Collins


2016


Rosemary’s Baby -TV mini Series – executive producer
2 episodes
Synopsis
A modern 4 hour mini-series adaptation of the classic novel by Ira Levin
focusing on young Rosemary Woodhouse’s suspicions that her neighbours
may belong to a Satanic cult who are hell bent
on getting one thing : the baby she is carrying.

Stars: Zoe Saldana, Patrick J. Adams , Carole Bouquet


2013
Jodi Arias : Dirty Little Secret – TV Movie – Executive Producer

Based on the disturbing murder trail that gripped the nation (usa) ,
this Lifetime Original Movie tells the story of a seductive ,
aspiring photographer found guilty of killing her former lover.

Directed by Jace Alexander, written by Richard Blaney & Gregory Small.
Starring ; Tania Raymonde, Jesse Lee Soffer & Leah Pipes.

2011
The Duke Lacrosse Case -  TV movie-Executive producer
 

2010
Rubicon tv series – Executive producer
 1 episode - Gone in the Teeth.
Synopsis
Will Travers is an analyst at a New York City based federal intelligence agency who is thrown into a story where nothing is as it appears to be.
Created by Jason Horwitch
Starring James Badge Dale, Jessica Collins, Lauren Hodges.

2009
Georgia O'Keeffe -
TV movie
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, starring Jeremy Irons and  Joan Allen in the leading roles.

Joshua Maurer is credited as executive producer

 

The Hoax - Starring Richard Gere as Clifford Irving
Released in November 2006 


Aired on HBO September 7th 2003 and is available on DVD
"And starring Pancho Villa as himself " - 2003  TV Movie Executive producer


The Penatagon Papers - 2003   TV Movie Executive producer

Dodson's Journey - 2001
TV Movie Executive producer
Firefly Prods., Regency Television and Fox Television Studios
Executive producers: David James Elliott, Nanci Chambers, Joshua D. Maurer
Producers: Gregg Champion, Stephen Sassen
Director: Gregg Champion
Teleplay: John Pielmeier
Based on a book by: James Dodson
Director of photography: Attila Szalay
Production designer: Jerry Wanek
Editor: Gib Jaffe
Music: Joseph Conlan
U.S. casting: Molly Lopata
Canadian casting: Coreen Mayrs, Heike Brandstatter
Costume designer: Glenne Campbell
Sound mixer: Donald Painchaud
Visual effects: Rainmaker Digital Pictures
Cast: David James Elliott, Alicia Morton, Robert Loggia, Tantoo Cardinal, Penelope Anne Miller, Ellen Burstyn


Introducing Dorothy Dandridge - 1999
TV Movie Executive producer
A true story about the life of Dorothy Dandridge , the first black woman to be nominated for a best actress Oscar, a woman who helped make Hollywood accessible for other black actors.
This 'Made for Television' movie was a Emmy Nominee,
Outstanding Made for Television Movie
at the 52nd Emmy Awards.

Cast List
Dorothy Dandridge ............ Halle Berry
Earl Mills ........................... Brent Spiner
Harold Nicholas ............... Obba Babatunde
Ruby Dandridge ............... Loretta Devine
Vivian Dandridge ............. Cynda Williams
Auntie .............................. LaTanya Richardson
Geri Nicholas ................... Tamara Taylor
Lynn ......................... .......Alexis Carrington
Jack Dennison ................ ..D.B. Sweeney
Otto Preminger ................ Klaus Maria Brandauer
Darryl Zanuck .................. William Atherton
Etta Jones ....................... Sharon Brown
Harry Belafonte .............. .Andre Carthen
Sidney Poitier ................. .Benjamin Brown

Filmed on location in Los Angeles by Esparza/Katz Prods. in association with Berry/Cirrincione. Executive producers, Moctesuma Esparza, Robert Katz, Joshua D. Maurer, Vincent Cirrincione, Halle Berry; producer, Larry Albucher; director, Martha Coolidge; writers, Shonda Rhimes, Scott Abbot; editor, Alan Heim; sound, David MacMillan; music, Elmer Bernstein; camera, Robbie Greenberg; costume design, Shelley Komarov; casting, Aleta Chappelle.

Face Of An Angel - 1999        
TV Movie Executive Producer

Dead Men Can't Dance -1997     
TV Movie Executive producer
Written by Colonel Paul Sinor.

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