Career
Born in Los Angeles, California, Sandy Lieberson began his career as an agent in the United States with clients who included Sergio Leone, Peter Sellers, Richard Harris and The Rolling Stones. He worked in Rome for almost three years from 1961, then returned to the United States for two years, before moving to the United Kingdom in 1965, going on to become a film producer. In 1968 he founded the British production company Goodtimes Enterprises, which produced films such as Performance (1970), Mahler (1974) and
Since the mid-1970s, Lieberson formed a new production company called Umbrella Entertainment, which produced films such as and Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987).
Between 1977 and 1980, he held various positions at 20th Century Fox, and was subsequently Vice President of International Production for The Ladd Company, before becoming Chief of Production at Goldcrest Films between 1984 and 1986. He was also head of production for United Kingdom 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was the inaugural Chair of Film London from 2003, continuing to help shape it for eight years.
He set up the Producers course at the National Film and Television School and was Head Tutor of its Producing Department.