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Stan Wertlieb
Born8 September 1953
Occupation(s)Film producer
Principal & partner of the Grindstone Entertainment Group

Stan Wertlieb is a Miami based film producer and the head of Grindstone Entertainment Group.

Background

As a producer, Wertlieb's work is mainly in the action genre. Some of the films he has been involved in include First Kill, Gotti, Last Knights, The Frozen Ground and Escape Plan: The Extractors.[1]

As of 2019, Wertlieb was still heading Grindstone Entertainment as its principal.[2]

Career

During the 90s, Wertlieb had a short career as an actor. He appeared in Hawkeye (1988) as Tony Caprisio and in Blood Street (1988) as MacDonald.[3] He was also in the 1998 film, Welcome to Hollywood as operation redline producer.[4]

In 2007, the CFO of Grindstone Entertainment was Barry Brooker. Wertlieb's role was to work closely with him in targeting programming for the organization.[5] He was later Head of acquisitions and later, the principal.[6][7]

Among his earliest work as a producer was the 2003 sci-fi film, Silent Warnings which he co-produced with Jeffrey Beach and Phillip Roth.[8][9] Along with Barry Brooker, Wertlieb was the executive producer for Andrew Paquin's debut film, Open House.[10] He also co-produced the 2017 film Aftermath which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scoot McNairy and Maggie Grace.[11][12]

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