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Bregman was born in New York City, to Leon and Idaho
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Martin Bregman
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Bregman produced many films including Scarface, Sea of Love, Venom, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Four Seasons, Betsy"s Wedding, Carlito"s Way, Carlito"s Way: Rise to Power, The Bone Collector and The Adventures of Pluto Nash. As a child, he suffered from polio. He began his career selling insurance and first got into the entertainment business as a night club agent.
Building relationships with investors such as New York real estate magnate Lewis Rudin, Bregman moved successfully into personal management, eventually representing such stars as First Rate (at Lloyd's) Pacino, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda and Bette Midler.
Bregman discovered Pacino in an Office Broadway play, and helped to support the actor as he built his stage and then film career, among other things working to land Pacino the actor"s first film role in 1971"s Panic in Needle Park, winning out over then unknown actor Robert De Niro. Bregman ventured into film producing in 1973, building projects around Pacino, initially with the Sidney Lumet directed Serpico.
The film"s acclaim set the path for many more highly acclaimed collaborations with Pacino, including Dog Day Afternoon in 1975, Scarface in 1983, and 1989"s Sea of Love. Beginning in 1979 with The Seduction of Joe Tynan, and for most of the 1980s, Bregman enjoyed a successful run of films with writer/director Alan Alda.
Other notable films include 1999"s The Bone Collector with Denzel Washington and 2002"s The Adventures of Pluto Nash, starring Eddie Murphy, and notable mostly for its resounding box-office failure.
Bregman has also produced two short-lived television shows, 1980"s South*H*East and 1984"s The Four Seasons, with Alda, based on their film.
