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May 4, 2022 · Michael Horowitz is an American author and archivist in San Francisco. Horowitz's parents were Jewish, his father immigrated from the Russia and his mother was born in the United States; much of his family perished in the Holocaust. He is the husband of author Cynthia Palmer, and the father of Winona Ryder and Uri Horowitz.
- Brooklyn, NY
- Cynthia Palmer Horowitz
- NY
- December 11, 1938
Michael Horowitz may refer to: Michael C. Horowitz (born 1978), American international relations scholar. Michael D. Horowitz (born 1938), American author and archivist. Michael E. Horowitz (born 1962), Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Winona Laura Horowitz was born in Winona County, Minnesota, to Cynthia Palmer (née Istas) and Michael D. Horowitz. Her mother is an author, video producer, and editor, and her father is an author, editor, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller. He also worked as an archivist for psychologist Timothy Leary (Ryder's godfather).
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Hurwitz was born in 1963 to a Jewish family in Anaheim, California. In 1976, when Hurwitz was 12, he co-founded a chocolate-chip cookie business, called the Chipyard on Balboa Boulevard in Balboa Fun Zone in Newport Beach, California, in a former taco place, with his older brother, Michael, and his father, Mark. The Chipyard is still in operation i...
Hurwitz worked on several sitcoms in the 1980s and 1990s, including Nurses, The Golden Girls, The Golden Palace, The John Larroquette Show, The Ellen Show and the Michael J. Fox-produced pilot Hench at Home. He created Everything's Relative, a midseason comedy starring Jeffrey Tambor and Jill Clayburghfor NBC in 1999.
Hurwitz was chosen by Ron Howard to create a sitcom about a rich dysfunctional family, which eventually turned into Arrested Development. Hurwitz wrote the pilot in 2002, which was filmed in March 2003. Fox added the show to its schedule in May. Despite laudatory reviews by television critics, Arrested Development received low ratings throughout it...
Series
Hurwitz created Fox's animated comedy Sit Down, Shut Up, based on an Australian TV series of the same name, for the 2008 season. Hurwitz created Running Wilde, which aired for one season from 2010 to 2011. It was a collaboration with Arrested Development star Will Arnett. Hurwitz signed a multiyear deal with Netflix in 2014. He executive produced Flaked starring Will Arnett and produced/co-created Lady Dynamite starring Maria Bamfordfor the network.
Pilots
Among Hurwitz's projects have been the US television adaptations of the British comedy shows The Thick of It (which was not picked up in the running for ABC's 2007–2008 TV season, though other networks such as HBO, Showtime and NBC have expressed interest) and Absolutely Fabulous. My World And Welcome To It was a 2009 CBS television pilot, executive produced by Hurwitz, Jay Kogen, Kim Tannenbaum, and Barry Sonnenfeld. It was a comedy based on an earlier series My World and Welcome to It about...
Acting
Hurwitz co-starred as "Cool Eric" in an episode of Workaholicstitled "Dry Guys". Hurwitz plays a human resources representative who is aiding them in their pursuit of sobriety. Hurwitz starred as "Koogler" in the Community episode "App Development and Condiments" (episode 8, season 5), which aired on March 6, 2014. He reprised the role in "Modern Espionage" (episode 11, season 6), which aired on May 19, 2015.
Hurwitz is married to actress Mary Jo Keenen. They have two daughters: May Asami, born in 2000, and Phoebe Hitomi born in 2002. The name of Arrested Developmentcharacter "Maeby" was the result of combining the names of Hurwitz's daughters.
2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series – Won2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series – Won– "Pilot"2005 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series – Won – "Righteous Brothers" (with Jim Vallely)- 1989–present
- May 29, 1963 (age 60), Anaheim, California, United States
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