Background
Edgar Rosenberg was born to Jewish parents in Bremerhaven in 1925.
Edgar Rosenberg was born to Jewish parents in Bremerhaven in 1925.
He was educated in England at Rugby School and Cambridge University.
When he was a small boy, his family emigrated from Germany to Denmark and then South Africa in order to escape the Nazis. Rosenberg moved to the United States as a young man and rose to become an assistant to Emanuel Sacks, vice president of entertainment at National Broadcasting Company, but was fired during a year of recovery from a traffic accident and had to work as a night clerk in a bookstore. In the 1960s, he worked for the public relations firm run by Anna M. Rosenberg (to whom he was not related) and was a valued news source for journalists.
In the 1970s, he produced the feature film Rabbit Test (1978), written and directed by Rivers.