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name: "Sanford Lieberson"
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born: "16 July 1936"
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# Sanford Lieberson

Producer. Born 16 July 1936 in Los Angeles.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 16 July 1936, Los Angeles
- **Also known as:** Sandy Lieberson, Sandy Leiberson

## Biography

Sanford 'Sandy' Lieberson is an American film producer and educator based in Britain since 1965. He began his career as a talent agent at the William Morris Agency in the United States, representing clients including Sergio Leone, Peter Sellers, Richard Harris and the Rolling Stones. He worked in Rome from 1961 before moving to the United Kingdom.

In 1968 Lieberson founded Goodtimes Enterprises, which produced *Performance* (1970). He later formed Umbrella Entertainment and produced films including *Jabberwocky* (1977) and *Rita, Sue and Bob Too* (1987). He held senior production roles at 20th Century Fox, The Ladd Company and Goldcrest Films, and served as head of the producing department at the National Film and Television School. Lieberson was the inaugural chair of Film London from 2003. He received the BIFA Special Jury Prize in 2005 and an honorary CBE in 2012.

*Sources: theguardian.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Performance.* (1970), Fi1m 81, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/performance.md)

## Also known for

- *Jabberwocky* (1977), Producer
- *The Mighty Quinn* (1989), Producer
- *Rita, Sue and Bob Too* (1987), Producer
- *Mahler* (1974), Executive Producer
- *The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus* (1996), Executive Producer
- *Lisztomania* (1975), Executive Producer

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