Charles Newirth

Charles Newirth (born August 22, 1955) is an American film producer.

Charles Newirth
Born	(1955-08-22) August 22, 1955 Scarsdale, New York, US
Alma mater	Ohio State University
Occupation	Film producer
Spouse	Susan Newirth
Children	2

Newirth most recently executive produced the blockbuster films Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Doctor Strange (2016) and Iron Man 3 (2013), for Marvel Studios and Disney.

Prior to that, Newirth had joined Revolution Studios in May 2000 and was responsible for overseeing the physical production of all Revolution Studios' motion pictures. He continued with Revolution Studios until June 2007, when he returned to working as an independent producer.

Revolution Studios released 47 films, including America's Sweethearts (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), XXX (2002), Anger Management (2003), Daddy Day Care (2003), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Hellboy (2004), 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Rocky Balboa (2006). At Revolution Studios, Newirth served as executive producer on The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007), Across the Universe (2007), Freedomland (2006), Christmas with the Kranks (2004), Peter Pan (2003), Maid in Manhattan (2002), The One (2001) and America's Sweethearts (2001).

Before joining Revolution Studios, Newirth produced the popular Robin Williams hit Patch Adams (1998), Home Fries (1998) starring Drew Barrymore, and the sleeper hit Galaxy Quest (1999), starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman.

Newirth co-produced Robert Zemeckis' multiple Academy Award-winning blockbuster Forrest Gump (1994). His other executive producing credits include: Zookeeper (2011) ; Brad Silberling's City of Angels (1998) starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan; Rob Reiner's true-life drama Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) with Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods; The American President (1995), also for director Rob Reiner, starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening and Jon Turteltaub's Phenomenon (1996) starring John Travolta. He also served as a co-producer on the Barry Levinson films Toys (1992), the multiple Oscar-nominated Bugsy (1991) and as an associate producer on Barry Levinson's Avalon (1990).

Raised in Scarsdale, New York, Newirth received a BA in Photography and Cinema from Ohio State University. He broke into the film industry as a location manager on such films as Flashdance (1983), Pretty in Pink (1986) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). He later moved up to production manager on Throw Momma from the Train (1987) and RoboCop (1987) before getting his first producing credit as an associate producer on The Package (1989).

Filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year	Film	Credit	Notes
1989	The Package	Associate producer
1990	Avalon	Associate producer
1991	Bugsy	Co-producer
1992	Toys	Co-producer
1994	Forrest Gump	Co-producer
1995	The American President	Executive producer
1996	Phenomenon	Executive producer
	Ghosts of Mississippi	Executive producer
1998	City of Angels	Executive producer
	Home Fries	Producer
	Patch Adams	Producer
1999	Galaxy Quest	Producer
2001	America's Sweethearts	Executive producer
	The One	Producer
2002	Maid in Manhattan	Executive producer
2003	Peter Pan	Co-executive producer
2004	Christmas with the Kranks	Executive producer
2006	Freedomland	Executive producer
2007	Perfect Stranger	Executive producer
	Across the Universe	Executive producer
	The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep	Executive producer
2011	Zookeeper	Executive producer
	Hugo	Executive producer	Uncredited
2013	Iron Man 3	Executive producer
2016	Doctor Strange	Executive producer
2018	Ant-Man and the Wasp	Executive producer
2019	El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie	Producer
2021	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings	Executive producer

Production manager

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1982	Parasite	Unit production manager
1984	Fear City	Unit manager
1987	RoboCop	Production manager
	Throw Momma from the Train
1988	The Great Outdoors
1989	The Package
1990	Avalon	Unit production manager
1991	Bugsy	Production manager
1992	Toys	Unit production manager
1994	Forrest Gump
1995	The American President
1996	Phenomenon
	Ghosts of Mississippi
1999	Galaxy Quest
2001	Black Hawk Down	Executive in charge of production
2002	Punch-Drunk Love
	XXX
2003	Anger Management
	Daddy Day Care
	The Missing
	Mona Lisa Smile
2004	Hellboy
	13 Going on 30
2005	Are We There Yet?
	Rent
2006	Click		Uncredited
	Rocky Balboa
2011	Hugo	Unit production manager
2016	Doctor Strange
2018	Ant-Man and the Wasp
2019	El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Location management

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1982	The Seduction	Location manager
	Cat People		Uncredited
1983	Flashdance
1984	Thief of Hearts
1985	Perfect
	My Man Adam
1986	Pretty in Pink
	Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987	Blind Date

Miscellaneous crew

Year	Film	Role
1980	Can't Stop the Music	Production assistant
1982	Cat People

Second unit director or assistant director

Year	Film	Role
2006	Freedomland	Second unit director

Thanks

Year	Film	Role
1991	Kafka	Special thanks
2002	Punch-Drunk Love

Television

Thanks

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2021	The Movies That Made Us	Special thanks	Documentary

External links

• Charles Newirth at IMDb