Bringing Back The Old Hollywood: Wild Times and Life Lessons With Sinatra, Cruise, Reeve, Madonna and More
Stephen Simon was born into a successful Hollywood family.  His father, S. Sylvan Simon, was a producer/director who made films with stars such as Abbott and Costello, Lana Turner, and Red Skelton.         S. Sylvan Simon died when Stephen was four years old, an event which compelled Frank Sinatra to become Stephen’s “godfather”.      Stephen’s stepfather Armand Deutsch, was a film producer at MGM who produced films with stars such as Robert Taylor, James Stewart, and Grace Kelly. Armand Deutsch adopted Stephen, changing the young boy’s last name to Deutsch.        In 1996, Stephen legally changed his name back to Simon.       In more than thirty years as a producer, director, and production executive, Stephen Simon has been involved in the production of over twenty films.            Stephen produced such acclaimed projects as the Academy Award® winning What Dreams May Come (starring Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr.), the cult classic Somewhere in Time (Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour), and All The Right Moves (Tom Cruise).  Stephen was also co-executive producer on fan favorites Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (Keanu Reeves), produced She’s Out of Control (Tony Danza), executive produced Body of Evidence (Madonna), produced the first original film to premiere on the Internet (Quantum Project), starring John Cleese and Stephen Dorff, was an executive producer on Linda McCartney for CBS Television, and was nominated for an Emmy Award as one of the executive producers of Homeless to Harvard for Lifetime Television.      Stephen was the head of production of the film companies of legendary Hollywood producers Ray Stark (Funny Girl, The Goodbye Girl, The Way We Were) and Dino De Laurentiis (Serpico, La Strada, 3 Days of The Condor).  Stephen has been a voting member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences since 1984.      Stephen earned his B.A. from UCLA in 1971 and LLD from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1974.      Stephen’s sister is well-known film critic Susan Granger.      Stephen resides near Portland, Oregon with his wife Lauren, two of their six children, two cats, and a dog.         For more information:www.TheOldHollywood.com