Robert F. Colesberry

Robert F. Colesberry Jr. (March 7, 1946 – February 9, 2004) was an American film and television producer, best known as a co-creator of the television series The Wire (2002–2008) for HBO, executive producer of the miniseries The Corner (2000), and a producer for Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985), Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning (1988), and Billy Crystal's 61* (2001). Colesberry was also an occasional actor. Early life Colesberry was born in Philadelphia. Colesberry served as an artillery lieutenant in the Army in the mid-1960s. Colesberry also briefly played baseball and operated a bar in Wildwood, New Jersey. Career After being discharged from the Army, he attended Southern Connecticut State University, where he became interested in drama. He later transferred to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, from which he received his B.F.A. in 1974. Colesberry began working on films in New York. He was assistant director for Andy Warhol's Bad (1977) and first assistant director on Alan Parker's musical film Fame (1980). Colesberry was then a producer for Barry Levinson's The Natural (1984), and Martin Scorsese's black comedies The King of Comedy (1982) and After Hours (1985).