Zack Norman
Birthday: 1940-05-27
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography: Zack Norman (born Howard Jerrold Zuker; May 27, 1940) is an American actor, director, producer, writer, comedian, musician, film financier, painter, art collector and real estate developer. Born in Boston and raised in nearby Revere, at the age of 13, he attended the oldest independent boarding school in the United States, The Governor's Academy, and by the age of 25 he was on the board of directors of a Massachusetts bank, though he is best known for his role as Ira in 20th Century Fox's Romancing the Stone (1984) and as Kaz Naiman in Paramount Classics' Festival in Cannes (2001).
Movies
Cadillac Man
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would ...
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Romancing the Stone
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. T...
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Babyfever
Gena is an average woman who is torn between her current boyfriend's desire to marry her and start a...
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Ovation
Maggie Chase, now a passionate theater actress, must follow her mind or heart when she falls for a s...
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Queen of the Lot
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress...
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958....
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Crosscut
When Martin Niconi goes across country to get away from a sorry family and associates problems, he f...
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At Home with the Webbers
AT HOME WITH THE WEBBERS explores what happens when a typical American family is turned into a hot, ...
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Mojave Moon
Al McCord is hanging out at his favourite restaurant when he meets an attractive young woman (Ellie)...
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Tracks
A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train t...
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Hollywood Dreams
The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising yo...
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Director's Commentary: Terror Of Frankenstein
'Terror of Frankenstein' is an exercise in extreme meta-fictional tragicomedy. Presented as the comm...
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Ragtime
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the ra...
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Chief Zabu
An outrageous social comedy about a New York realtor who dreams of having political influence by tak...
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Gums
A killer nympho mermaid with an oral fixation prowls the ocean waters, devouring – up to a point – a...
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Sitting Ducks
Two small-time thieves come together in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true....
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America
The zany crew of a New York cable TV station accidentally bounce a signal off the moon, bringing the...
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Festival in Cannes
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus...
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismi...
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And the Bombs Keep Falling
France 1944. A landslide imprisons five American soldiers in a cave where, after seven days, they fi...
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Get a Job
Jay is a young slacker who has to get a job in order to receive his inheritance. Rather than physica...
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The Plot Against Harry
Deadpan, small-time Kosher Nostra mobster Harry Plotnick goes meshugga when he gets into the caterin...
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Lush Life
Jeff Goldblum and Forest Whitaker star as New York jazz musicians, forced to confront a life beyond ...
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