Founder and director of the prestigious Pace Art Gallery in New York, who had his first taste of filmmaking when he played a cameo--appropriately enough as a bidder at an art auction--in friend Robert Benton's 1980 thriller, "Still of the Night". In 1986 Glimcher served as associate producer of "Legal Eagles" Ivan Reitman's romantic mystery set in the New York art world, utilizing his knowledge of art to develop gallery scenes, pick artworks for sets and write the films's performance-art piece. He actively entered the industry when he independently developed and produced the features ""Gorillas in the Mist" and "The Good Mother" (both 1988) and made his directorial debut with "The Mambo Kings" (1992), the film adaptation of Oscar Hijuelos's Pultizer Prize-winning novel "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love".
Profession(s):
producer, director, print editor, author, art dealer, film art consultant, Actor
Sometimes Credited As:
Arne Glimcher
Arnold Glimcher
Family
father:Pace Glimcher (died 1961)
son:Paul Glimcher (born 1961; teaches at the University of Pennsylvania)
son:Marc Glimcher (born 1963; worked at Pace Gallery for two years after graduating from Harvard; studied biology at John Hopkins; with Mark Pollard formed Second Son Publications, a publishing company that published "Gargoyles" (edited by Glimcher); is assistant director of Pace Gallery)
wife:Mildred Cooper (married in 1959; was an art-history major at Wellesley when they met)
1999 Directed and Produced the comedy "The White River Kid"
1995 Produced and directed the thriller "Just Cause" starring Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne
1992 Made directorial debut with the feature "The Mambo Kings" starring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas; based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" by Oscar Hijuelos
1988 Produced "The Good Mother" which starred Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson
1988 Produced first feature "Gorillas in the Mist"
1986 First film as associate producer, "Legal Eagles"
1984 Persuaded Dian Fossey to allow him to make film about her life among the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; Fossey murdered in 1985 while Glimcher was on way to meet her
1980 First involvement in filmmaking, when friend Robert Benton cast him in cameo role as a bidder at an art auction in "Still of the Night"
1968 Moved art gallery to I M Pei-designed space across 57th Street in New York
1963 Interest in New York artists and their work prompted him to open art gallery in New York with Fred Mueller
1962 Moved to New York (date approximate)
1961 Opened first art gallery in Boston, named Pace after his late father
Family moved to Brookline, MA when Glimcher was eight; returned to family's Minnesota ranch to work each summer until he was 18
Set to direct the Broadway musical "The Mambo Kings"
