Glen Trotiner Dies: Assistant Director On ‘Captain America’, ‘Independence Day’ & Dozens Of Other Projects Was 65
deadline.comGlen Trotiner, who was first or second assistant director on such films as Captain America: The First Avenger, Independence Day and The Untouchables, along with Mozart in the Jungle, ER and dozens of other projects, has died.
He was 65. Trotiner died June 16 in New York, but other details were not available.A graduate of the Directors Guild of America Training Program, he worked on more than 100 movies and television shows during a four-decade career as an assistant director and/or co-producer, most recently working on Morbius and Gotham.Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo GalleryA Bronx native, Trotiner’s first gig as an AD was on the 1987 thriller The Untouchables, which starred Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro and others.
He went on to word as second AD on films including Biloxi Blues, Awakenings, Last Exit to Brooklyn and the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day.
By the mid-1990s, Trotiner was working mainly as First AD, serving in that role on a half-dozen episodes of HBO’s gritty prison drama Oz and such movies as Big Daddy, Maid in Manhattan, Because of Winn-Dixie, Reservation Road and Halloween II.
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