William Horberg Biography

William Horberg is a Hollywood film producer and blogger. His films include Anthony Minghella's adaptations of the novels The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain. He also produced the critically acclaimed Fallen Angels series for Showtime from 1993-1995.

Early career

Horberg was born in Chicago where, in his first venture into film, he owned and operated the downtown repertory Sandburg Movie Theatre from 1979 to 1981.

He moved into production starting his company, FutureVision, Inc., and was a producer on Cheap Trick: Live At ChicagoFest for MTV, Chicago Blues a ten-part series featuring legendary blues performers for subscription TV, and was an Associate Producer on Miami Blues, and Executive Producer on A Rage in Harlem (film) for Miramax Films.

Horberg began his career in 1987 as a creative executive at Paramount Pictures and later a Senior Vice President of Production. While at Paramount he oversaw the development and production of such films as Ghost, The Naked Gun 2: The Smell of Fear, Dead Again, Regarding Henry, Soapdish, The Addams Family and The Godfather Part III.

In 1993, Horberg joined producer/director Sydney Pollack's company, Mirage, where he produced such films as Cold Mountain (movie) based on the best-selling novel by Charles Frazier, The Talented Mr. Ripley, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, The Quiet American (2002 film) based on the novel by Graham Greene, Heaven (2002 film) and Searching for Bobby Fischer, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter (Schindler's List) Steven Zaillian.

During that time, he also created and produced the critically acclaimed Showtime anthology series Fallen Angels which featured Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Steven Soderbergh and Alfonso Cuaron. He also produced the HBO movie Poodle Springs (film) based on the unfinished novel by Raymond Chandler and adapted by Tom Stoppard, along with Charlie Countryman.

Later career

In 2005, Horberg became President of Production at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment where he produced or executive produced Talk To Me, Death at a Funeral, Married Life, Lars and the Real Girl, Synecdoche, New York the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, The Kite Runner based on the best-selling book by Khaled Hosseini, and Milk.

Most recently he founded an independent company, Wonderful Films which co-produced Death at a Funeral and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. He also announced plans to co-produce, with Marc Forster, the drama film Disconnect directed by Henry Alex Rubin.

Personal life

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Cuban-born artist, Elsa Mora, and their children.