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

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).

Newirth served as a co-producer on Robert Zemeckis' multiple Academy Award-winning blockbuster Forrest Gump (1994). He also co-produced the Barry Levinson films Toys (1992), the multiple Oscar-nominated Bugsy (1991) and as an associate producer on Barry Levinson's Avalon (1990). His other executive producing credits include: Hugo (2011) ;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.

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, before joining Revolution Studios in 2000.

Newirth was responsible for overseeing the physical production of all of Revolution Studios' motion pictures. 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). He continued with Revolution Studios until June 2007, when he returned to working as an independent producer.

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.

Filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Production manager

Location management

Miscellaneous crew

Second unit director or assistant director

Thanks

Television

Thanks

References

1. The New York Times

External links

• Charles Newirth at IMDb

• 1955 births
• Businesspeople from New York City
• Film producers from New York (state)
• Golden Globe Award–winning producers
• Living people
• Marvel Studios people
• Ohio State University School of Communication alumni
• People from Scarsdale, New York
• Scarsdale High School alumni