Biography
Robert F. Colesberry Jr., also known as Bob Colesberry, was an American film and television producer. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at Southern Connecticut State University before earning a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1974.
Colesberry worked as a producer on films including The King of Comedy (1982), The Natural (1984), After Hours (1985), Mississippi Burning (1988) and K-PAX (2001). He was executive producer of the HBO miniseries The Corner (2000) and co-creator and executive producer of the HBO series The Wire (2002), on which he also directed the second-season finale and appeared in a recurring role as Detective Ray Cole. He was married to producer Karen L. Thorson.
