Ricky Blitt
Ricky Blitt | |
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Born | Richard Michael Blitt Canada |
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation(s) | Writer, director, producer, actor |
Relatives | Barry Blitt (brother) |
Richard Michael Blitt is a Canadian-born screenwriter, film director, producer, and actor who has been based in Los Angeles since 1994.
Early in his career, Blitt was a writer on The Jeff Foxworthy Show and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. He was one of the original writers on Family Guy, where he would go on to become a producer and write several episodes. He also appeared as an actor in Family Guy's first ever live action sequence alongside Alyssa Milano.
He co-wrote and starred in a Fox pilot in 2003 titled Blitt Happens starring Jim Parsons and directed by The Farrelly Brothers.
He created and was the executive producer of The Winner starring Rob Corddry for Fox. He also created the series Romantically Challenged, re-teaming with its star Alyssa Milano on ABC.
Ricky has been a series regular and writer for the Peter Farrelly-Bobby Mort created comedy Loudermilk for the past three seasons on the Audience network.
In film, Blitt won a Perspectives of the Media award for his screenplay for Fox Searchlight's The Ringer. Blitt made his directing debut with his recent film Hit By Lightning starring Jon Cryer.
Blitt also owns a production company, Candy Bar Productions.
Personal life
Blitt was raised in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, a municipality on the Island of Montreal. He is a graduate of McGill University and attended the AFI Conservatory. His older brother is magazine illustrator Barry Blitt.[1][2] He is Jewish.[3]
References
- ^ McKenzie, Rob (28 February 2007). "Creating the winner". National Post. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ^ Owen, Rob (April 19, 2010). "Love for Penguins behind city's setting for 'Romantically Challenged'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
- ^ admin. "A message from Ricky Blitt". Alyssa Milano. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
External links
- Ricky Blitt at IMDb
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- Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr – Can't Stop the Music (1980)
- Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner, and Robert Getchell – Mommie Dearest (1981)
- Robin Moore and Laird Koenig – Inchon (1982)
- John Kershaw, Shawn Randall, and Ellen Shephard – The Lonely Lady (1983)
- John Derek – Bolero (1984)
- Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron, and Kevin Jarre – Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
- Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz – Howard the Duck (1986)
- Jonathan Reynolds and Bill Cosby – Leonard Part 6 (1987)
- Heywood Gould – Cocktail (1988)
- Eddie Murphy – Harlem Nights (1989)
- Daniel Waters, James Cappe, and David Arnott – The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
- Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Bruce Willis, and Robert Kraft – Hudson Hawk (1991)
- Blake Snyder, William Osborne, and William Davies – Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
- Amy Holden Jones – Indecent Proposal (1993)
- Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza, and various others – The Flintstones (1994)
- Joe Eszterhas – Showgirls (1995)
- Andrew Bergman – Striptease (1996)
- Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland – The Postman (1997)
- Joe Eszterhas – An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998)
- Jim Thomas, John Thomas, S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price, and Peter S. Seaman – Wild Wild West (1999)
- Corey Mandell and J. David Shapiro – Battlefield Earth (2000)
- Tom Green and Derek Harvie – Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
- George Lucas and Jonathan Hales – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
- Martin Brest – Gigli (2003)
- Theresa Rebeck, John Brancato, Michael Ferris, and John Rogers – Catwoman (2004)
- Jenny McCarthy – Dirty Love (2005)
- Leora Barish and Henry Bean – Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
- Jeffrey Hammond – I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
- Mike Myers and Graham Gordy – The Love Guru (2008)
- Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
- M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010)
- Steve Koren, Adam Sandler, and Ben Zook – Jack and Jill (2011)
- David Caspe – That's My Boy (2012)
- Steve Baker, Ricky Blitt, Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Claes Kjellstrom, Jack Kukoda, Bob Odenkirk, Bill O'Malley, Matthew Alec Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, Olle Sarri, Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Jeremy Sosenko, Jonathan van Tulleken, and Jonas Wittenmark – Movie 43 (2013)
- Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey – Saving Christmas (2014)
- Kelly Marcel – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
- Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
- Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel, and Mike White – The Emoji Movie (2017)
- Niall Leonard – Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
- Lee Hall and Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)
- Tomasz Klimala, Barbara Białowąs, Tomasz Mandes, and Blanka Lipińska – 365 Days (2020/21)
- Joe DiPietro and David Bryan – Diana: The Musical (2021)
- Andrew Dominik – Blonde (2022)
- Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)
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