Barney Rosenzweig

Rosenzweig was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles[1] and graduated from Montebello High School in 1955.[2] His father was a schoolteacher and his mother a civil servant.[1] Rosenzweig graduated from University of Southern California.[1] His first job was in the mailroom at MGM although he soon became a publicist, a position he disliked.[1] With the aid of his father-in-law, Aaron Rosenberg, he secured a position as a producer.[1] He produced the 1980s television series Cagney & Lacey[3] written by his then wife Barbara Corday and Barbara Avedon. He also produced the 1960s series Daniel Boone, as well as a dozen episodes of Charlie's Angels.[4] He subsequently created and produced The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, which starred his third wife Sharon Gless and ran for two seasons in the early 1990s.

While a senior in college, he married JoAnne Lang, the stepdaughter of producer Aaron Rosenberg; they had three daughters - Erika (born 1960), Allyn (born 1962), and Torrie (born 1964) - before divorcing in 1978.[1][5] In 1979, Rosenzweig married Barbara Corday, a producer and writer for Cagney & Lacey; they divorced in 1990.[3][5] In 1991, he married the Cagney & Lacey star Sharon Gless.[6][5]

• Barney Rosenzweig at IMDb
• Barney Rosenzweig at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television