A celebrated stage and film director, Ulu Grosbard became renowned for features with intense character studies and in which actors give superb performances. Originally trained as a diamond cutter--which some may call the birthright of the Jews of his native Antwerp, Belgium--he emigrated to the USA in the late 1940s. After attending the University of Chicago and Yale School of Drama and a brief stint in the US Army, Grosbard made his stage directorial debut with a production of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge" on Long Island, NY (and later earned critical plaudits and accolades for a
