---
name: "Mitch Glazer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mitch-glazer"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T09:13:51.247343+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Mitch Glazer

Producer. Born 1 January 1953 in Key Biscayne, Florida, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953, Key Biscayne, Florida, USA
- **Active:** 1998–2003
- **Also known as:** Mitchell Aram Glazer, Mitchell Glazer
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 producing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 62 (1), 2000s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Glazer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3859412, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322248/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/28866

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Great Expectations*](https://film.one/film/great-expectations-1998.md) (62)

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## Biography

Mitch Glazer is an American screenwriter, producer and actor. Born in 1953 in Key Biscayne, Florida, and raised in Miami, he attended Miami Beach High School and New York University. Before entering film, he wrote for music publications including Rolling Stone and Crawdaddy!, and collaborated with Michael O'Donoghue.

His screenwriting credits include the Bill Murray comedy *Scrooged* (1988), the modern adaptation *Great Expectations* (1998) directed by Alfonso Cuarón, *The Recruit* (2003), *Rock the Kasbah* (2015) and the television series *Magic City* (2012), which he created. He also directed and co-wrote *Passion Play* (2011). Glazer has worked as a producer on films including *Lost in Translation* (2003).

He is the nephew of producer Sidney Glazier and has been married to actress Kelly Lynch since 1992.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1)

- *Great Expectations* (1998), Fi1m 62, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations-1998.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Fi1m 86, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *On the Rocks* (2020), Executive Producer
- *A Very Murray Christmas* (2015), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Rock the Kasbah* (2015), Screenplay, Producer
- *Magic City* (2012), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Passion Play* (2011), Director, Screenplay
- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Associate Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)
- *The Recruit* (2003), Writer
- *Great Expectations* (1998), Screenplay — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/great-expectations-1998.md)
- *Three of Hearts* (1993), Screenplay
- *Off and Running* (1991), Writer
- *Scrooged* (1988), as Guest · Writer
- *Mr. Mike's Mondo Video* (1979), Writer
- *Epiphany*, Writer, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Mitch Glazer](https://film.one/media/person/303323/gallery-2843d684feac.jpg) Mitch Glazer — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Mitch_Glazer_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Mitch_Glazer_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mitch Glazer speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Rock the Kasbah", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please ](https://film.one/media/person/303323/gallery-3fa91893552a.jpg) Mitch Glazer speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Rock the Kasbah", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please  — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/SDCC_2015_-_Mitch_Glazer_%2819468784999%29.jpg/1280px-SDCC_2015_-_Mitch_Glazer_%2819468784999%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mitch Glazer speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Rock the Kasbah", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please ](https://film.one/media/person/303323/gallery-d85a08ed8b7a.jpg) Mitch Glazer speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Rock the Kasbah", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please  — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/SDCC_2015_-_Mitch_Glazer_%2819629211266%29.jpg/1280px-SDCC_2015_-_Mitch_Glazer_%2819629211266%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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