Bedford Falls Productions Explained
Bedford Falls Productions or The Bedford Falls Company is an American production company founded in 1985 by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick.[1] Under the banner, they created television shows like Thirtysomething and Once and Again, produced television shows Legends of the Fall, Blood Diamond and My So-Called Life and the Academy Award-winning films Shakespeare in Love and Traffic.
In honor of the It's a Wonderful Life (1946), the Bedford Falls Company was named after the fictional town, and an overhead view of a facsimile of the Bailey household appears in the production logo, which also features a couple people singing the last line of "Buffalo Gals" (a song featured in the movie), "...and dance by the light of the moon."
Credits
- Sawdust (Unsold TV pilot, 1987)
- Thirtysomething (TV series, 1987)
- Extreme Close-Up (TV film, 1990)
- My So-Called Life (TV series, 1994)
- Legends of the Fall (Film, 1994)
- Relativity (TV series, 1996)
- HIStory (Short Film, 1996)
- The Player (1997)
- Astoria (1998)
- Dangerous Beauty (Film, 1998)
- The Siege (Film, 1998)
- Shakespeare in Love (Film, 1998)
- Once and Again (TV series, 1999)
- The Only Living Boy in New York (2000)
- Traffic (Film, 2000)
- I Am Sam (Film, 2001)
- The Poof Point (TV film, 2001)
- Abandon (Film, 2002)
- Lone Star State of Mind (Film, 2002)
- Women vs. Men (2002)
- The Last Samurai (2003)
- 1/4life (2005)
- Blood Diamond (Film, 2006)
- Quarterlife (TV-series, 2007)
- Love & Other Drugs (Film, 2010)
- Nashville (TV series, 2016-2018)
- Woman Walks Ahead (Film, 2017)
Notes and References
- Web site: Edward Zwick. Variety. 17 December 2013 .
