Herb Jaffe Biography

Between the late '60s and early '70s, Herb Jaffe worked for United Artists as their chief producer and head of their West Coast operations. Before breaking into films, the Columbia-educated Jaffe worked as a press agent, a talent agent and a sales executive. During the '50s and '60s, he founded and ran a literary agency where he worked with such distinguished clients as Paddy Chayefsky, Reginald Rose, Joseph Heller and Phillip Roth. He sold the company in 1965 to become a production vice president of UA. In 1973, he left the studio to form his own production company, producing such features as The Wind and the Lion (1975) and the ill-fated Jinxed (1982). Later his son Steven Charles Jaffe became an associate producer under him and together produced such films as Time After Time (1979). ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi