Edward Saxon

Edward Saxon
Born	Edward Bradley Saxon (1956-11-17) November 17, 1956 St. Louis, Missouri
Occupation	Film producer

Edward Bradley Saxon (born November 17, 1956) is an American film producer.

Early life

Saxon was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Kirkwood High School from 1972 to 1976.

He studied at McGill University from 1976 to 1980. While at McGill, he founded the Tuesday Night Cafe Theatre with Veronica Brady and Peter Grossman, and the company is still running today. Saxon acted in many plays at the Players' Theatre, McGill's famous Red and White Review. He also founded a radio comedy troupe called The Circle Jerks.

He then studied at The Peter Stark Producing Program at the USC School of Cinema-Television.

Career

Saxon is arguably best known for the film The Silence of the Lambs, which is, to date, the third and last film to sweep the five main categories of Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. (The others are It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.)

Formerly Jonathan Demme's producing partner, his films include Beloved, Ulee's Gold, That Thing You Do!, The Truth About Charlie, Married to the Mob, Miami Blues and Philadelphia.

After parting ways with Demme, Saxon produced Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze's Adaptation.. He produced Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation in 2006. More recent projects include Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes, and Our Family Wedding, starring Forest Whitaker and America Ferrera.

Originally an actor, Saxon was one of VH1's first VJ's in New York City. He has made several cameos in the films he has produced, most notably as a head in a jar in Silence of the Lambs.

Filmography

All films, he was producer unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year	Film	Notes
1986	Something Wild	Executive producer
1988	Married to the Mob
1990	Miami Blues	Executive producer
1991	The Silence of the Lambs
1993	Philadelphia
1995	Devil in a Blue Dress	Executive producer
1996	That Thing You Do!
1997	Ulee's Gold	Executive producer
1998	Beloved
2000	The Opportunists	Executive producer
2002	The Truth About Charlie
	Adaptation
2006	Fast Food Nation	Executive producer
2009	Away We Go
2010	Our Family Wedding
2014	Elsa & Fred

As an actor

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1986	Something Wild	Kevin Stroup
1990	Miami Blues	Krishna Ravindra at Miami Airport
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Benjamin Raspail (Head in a Jar)	Uncredited
1994	The Ref	Reporter
1998	Beloved	Man with Rubbery Face	Uncredited

Thanks

Year	Film	Notes
1993	Household Saints	Thanks
1996	Some Mother's Son	Special thanks
2005	Me and You and Everyone We Know	Special thanks
2009	Where the Wild Things Are	Special thanks

Television

Year	Title	Notes
1988	Haiti Dreams of Democracy	Documentary Executive producer
1991	Women & Men 2	Television film Co-producer
1997	Subway Stories	Television film Executive producer
2011	Enlightened	Co-executive producer
2016−19	Ray Donovan	Co-executive producer

As an actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Women & Men 2	Ad Man	Television film "A Domestic Dilemma" segment

External links

• Edward Saxon Productions
• Edward Saxon at IMDb
• Interview with Edward Saxon, Adaptation
• Edward Saxon and others discuss why so many novels never make it to the big screen, The Independent