Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerStuart Cornfeld, the producing partner with Ben Stiller on Zoolander, Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder, has died.
He was 67 and passed from cancer.Cornfeld was born in Tarzana in 1952, and graduated from the American Film Institute in 1975.
While working with Anne Bancroft on two Directing Workshop for Women projects, she introduced him to husband Mel Brooks. That led to Cornfeld becoming the assistant on 1977’s High Anxiety.He worked on several other Bancroft and Brooks projects, becoming the executive producer on the Brooks-produced The Elephant Man.Cornfeld’worked on a few projects in the 1980s, most notably David Cronenberg’s The Fly in 1986.
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