Michael Tadross

Michael Tadross is an American producer, director, and occasional actor who has played a significant role in the film industry for over thirty years. Among Warner Bros. films he has produced are *Sherlock Holmes*, *Run All Night*, *Cop Out*, *Winter's Tale*, *Arthur*, and *I Am Legend*, one of the highest-budgeted science fiction films to be entirely filmed in New York City. Earlier in his career at Warner Bros., he produced *The Devil's Advocate*, *Jack Frost*, and *Eraser*.

His producing credits also include *Hitch*, *Basic*, *Rollerball*, *The Thomas Crown Affair*, *Indecent Proposal*, *School Ties*, *Brenda Starr*, and *Die Hard: With A Vengeance*, the highest-grossing worldwide film of 1995. He served as Unit Production Manager for *Ghost*, *Coming To America*, *Black Rain*, *Trading Places*, and *Death Wish III*, and as First Assistant Director on *Cocktail* and *Masquerade*, among others. He has also been awarded one gold and two platinum records.

Tadross began his career as a camera trainee and assistant film editor. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He also worked as Executive Vice President of Feature Production at Paramount Pictures. He was nominated for the NAACP Image Award and received The Movie Guide Award for best family-oriented film of 2006 for *Hitch*. He is cited in *Who's Who of Executives and Professionals*.