Charles B. Wessler
Charles B. Wessler (born May 16, 1955) is an American film producer[1] best known for his collaborations with the Farrelly brothers.
Life and career
Wessler's first job was as a production assistant on the film Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses? (1977). He was also a production assistant for George Lucas on The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983).
Wessler spent time working at The Ladd Company for Alan Ladd Jr. and at Zoetrope Studios with Francis Ford Coppola. He soon moved on to produce specials for HBO where he hired Peter Farrelly and Bennett Yellen to write a script for the 1987 special, Paul Reiser Out on a Whim. Wessler, Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly went on to develop several scripts together. Their first feature film was Dumb and Dumber (1994) for New Line Cinema. In 1998, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for producing There's Something About Mary.[2]
Wessler's other producing credits include It's Pat, Bushwhacked, Me, Myself & Irene, Shallow Hal and Stuck on You and The Heartbreak Kid (2007). His 2010s films included Hall Pass, The Three Stooges (2012), Movie 43 (2013), Dumb and Dumber To (2014).
In 2018 Wessler produced Green Book, directed by Peter Farrelly. The film won numerous awards, including: the Toronto International Film Festival's People Choice Award,[3] Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy,[4] Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture,[5] honoree of American Film Institute Movies Of The Year,[6] and the Academy Award for Best Picture.[7]
Filmography
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
Film
Year | Film | Credit |
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1983 | Cold Feet | |
1994 | It's Pat | |
Dumb and Dumber | ||
1995 | Bushwhacked | |
1997 | The Locusts | Executive producer |
1998 | There's Something About Mary | |
2000 | Me, Myself & Irene | Executive producer |
Bachelor #2 | ||
2001 | Shallow Hal | |
2003 | Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd | |
Stuck on You | ||
2007 | The Heartbreak Kid | Executive producer |
2011 | Hall Pass | |
2012 | The Three Stooges | |
2013 | Movie 43 | |
2014 | Dumb and Dumber To | |
2018 | Green Book | |
2021 | Palmer |
- Miscellaneous crew
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1977 | Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses? | Production assistant | |
1979 | Chilly Scenes of Winter | ||
1980 | The Empire Strikes Back | ||
1982 | Hammett | Production aide | |
1983 | Return of the Jedi | Production assistant | Uncredited |
- Actor
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2013 | Movie 43 | Himself | Uncredited |
- As writer
Year | Film |
---|---|
2003 | Stuck on You |
- Thanks
Year | Film | Role |
---|---|---|
1992 | A League of Their Own | Thanks |
2017 | Fun Mom Dinner | Special thanks |
2019 | The Last Laugh |
Television
Year | Title | Notes |
---|---|---|
1985 | From Here to Maternity | Television pilot |
1987 | Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim | Television special |
- Miscellaneous crew
Year | Title | Role |
---|---|---|
1995−96 | Dumb and Dumber | Creative consultant |
- As director
Year | Title |
---|---|
2002 | Nero Wolfe |
References
- ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (October 26, 2011). "Peter And Bobby Farrelly Plan More 'Dumb And Dumber' For Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels". Deadline. Retrieved August 12, 2018.
- ^ "There's Something About Mary". www.goldenglobes.com.
- ^ Hammond, Pete (16 September 2018). "'Green Book' Wins 2018 Toronto Film Festival People's Choice Award – Oscar Harbinger?".
- ^ "Green Book". www.goldenglobes.com.
- ^ "2019 PGA Awards Winners - Producers Guild of America". www.producersguild.org. Archived from the original on 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
- ^ "Announcing the AFI AWARDS 2018 Honorees".
- ^ "The 91st Academy Awards - 2019". Oscars.org - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
External links
- Charles B. Wessler at IMDb
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- Arthur Freed (1951)
- Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
- Buddy Adler (1953)
- Sam Spiegel (1954)
- Harold Hecht (1955)
- Michael Todd (1956)
- Sam Spiegel (1957)
- Arthur Freed (1958)
- Sam Zimbalist (1959)
- Billy Wilder (1960)
- Robert Wise (1961)
- Sam Spiegel (1962)
- Tony Richardson (1963)
- Jack L. Warner (1964)
- Robert Wise (1965)
- Fred Zinnemann (1966)
- Walter Mirisch (1967)
- John Woolf (1968)
- Jerome Hellman (1969)
- Frank McCarthy (1970)
- Philip D'Antoni (1971)
- Albert S. Ruddy (1972)
- Tony Bill, Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips (1973)
- Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos (1974)
- Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz (1975)
- Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976)
- Charles H. Joffe (1977)
- Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall and Barry Spikings (1978)
- Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)
- Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
- David Puttnam (1981)
- Richard Attenborough (1982)
- James L. Brooks (1983)
- Saul Zaentz (1984)
- Sydney Pollack (1985)
- Arnold Kopelson (1986)
- Jeremy Thomas (1987)
- Mark Johnson (1988)
- Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck (1989)
- Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
- Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon and Kenneth Utt (1991)
- Clint Eastwood (1992)
- Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen and Steven Spielberg (1993)
- Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey and Steve Tisch (1994)
- Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
- Saul Zaentz (1996)
- James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
- Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein and Edward Zwick (1998)
- Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)
- David Franzoni, Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick (2000)
- Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (2001)
- Martin Richards (2002)
- Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Fran Walsh (2003)
- Clint Eastwood, Tom Rosenberg and Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
- Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman (2005)
- Graham King (2006)
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Scott Rudin (2007)
- Christian Colson (2008)
- Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro (2009)
- Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin (2010)
- Thomas Langmann (2011)
- Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov (2012)
- Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Brad Pitt (2013)
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
- Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar (2015)
- Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Adele Romanski (2016)
- J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017)
- Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga and Charles B. Wessler (2018)
- Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019)
- Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears and Chloé Zhao (2020)
- Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, Patrick Wachsberger (2021)
- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang (2022)
- Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan (2023)