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Martin Brest
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Editor Born: August 8, 1951 in Bronx, New York City, NY Biography:While attending New York University, "Martin Brest" directed the award-winning student project "Hot Dogs for Gaugin", starring a then-unknown Danny De Vito. Brest went on to produce, direct, write, and edit "Hot Tomorrows" (1977) for the American Film Institute. These formative efforts caught the eye of Warner Bros.; the studio hired the 27-year-old Brest to direct the venerable "George Burns", "Art Carney", and "Lee Strasberg" in the melancholy comedy Going in Style (1979). The handling of this film evinced a maturity well beyond Brest's physical age, and it looked for awhile as though Hollywood had another wunderkind on its hands. Brest developed the teenage-oriented suspense film "WarGames", but the project was wrested from his control after an on-set tiff with the producers. For nearly two years, Brest was virtually blacklisted, surfacing only for an acting assignment in "Fast Times at Ridgemont... Full Biography
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