Edgar Rosenberg (September 21, 1925 film and television producer based in the United States.
Early life
Edgar Rosenberg was born to Jewish parents in Bremerhaven in 1925. When he was a small boy, his family emigrated from Germany to Denmark and then South Africa to escape the Nazis. He was educated in England at Rugby School and Cambridge University.
Career
Rosenberg moved to the United States as a young man and rose to become an assistant to Emanuel Sacks, vice president of entertainment at NBC. He was fired during a year of recovery after, sitting in a parked car, he had been hit by a runaway truck: he had to work as a night clerk in a bookstore. His other television credits included the 1950s U.S. educational TV series Omnibus He served as Rivers' manager for most of their marriage and was a producer on The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, on the newly formed Fox Television Network.
Personal life and death
Rosenberg married actress, comedian and commentator Joan Rivers in July 1965, five days after hiring her to work with him in Jamaica rewriting a screenplay for a joint movie deal with his friend Peter Sellers. Nancy Reagan was the first person to telephone Rivers upon Rosenberg's death and arranged for his body to be moved from Philadelphia.