Rick Bieber

Rick Bieber is an award-winning film executive, producer, writer and director. He is the former head of HBO's film production division and previously served as president and CEO of Stonebridge Entertainment, his production partnership with Michael Douglas; president of Fox West Pictures; and president and CEO of Harmony Pictures. Earlier in his career he was an entertainment executive at NBC and Columbia Pictures.

As a filmmaker, Bieber wrote, directed and produced The 5th Quarter (2010), which starred Aidan Quinn, Andie MacDowell and Ryan Merriman. The film recounts the true and inspirational story of Jon Abbate, who led his Wake Forest Demon Deacons to the ACC Championship after dedicating the 2006 collegiate football season to the memory of his 15-year-old brother Luke. The film garnered more than a dozen festival awards and has been endorsed by The Dove Foundation.

He directed, co-wrote and produced Crazy (2008), starring Waylon Payne and Ali Larter. Inspired by the controversial and legendary guitarist Hank Garland, the film garnered 17 major festival awards including 11 Best Picture nods.

More recently, Bieber directed, wrote and produced Dead Wrong (2024), an ensemble crime drama starring Rob Schneider, Cress Williams, Katrina Bowden and Chet Hanks. The film centers on an extreme narcissist who devises an evil get-rich scheme that ignites an emotional and deadly chain reaction that overwhelms the lives of those around him.

Don’t Sleep (2017), directed, written and produced by Bieber, was a youthful supernatural love story starring Cary Elwes, Drea de Matteo, Jill Hennessy, Alex Rocco, Dominic Sherwood and Charlbi Dean.

As a producer or executive producer, Bieber’s other credits include Aurora Borealis (2005), starring Josh Jackson, Juliette Lewis and Donald Sutherland; Illusion (2004), starring Michael Goorjian and Kirk Douglas; Made in America (1993), starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson; Radio Flyer (1992), directed by Richard Donner and starring Elijah Wood, Lorraine Bracco and John Heard; Hard Promises (1991), starring William Peterson and Sissy Spacek; and Flatliners (1990), directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt.

Bieber has been a board consultant to the Washington-based non-profit Population Services International and their worldwide YouthAids program, traveling extensively in Africa. He also served as the board chairperson of Extraordinary Families, a leading Los Angeles non-profit foster/adoption/child advocacy agency and raised funds on behalf of the American Cancer Society.

After earning his undergraduate degree from Hofstra University, from which he was awarded the prestigious George M. Estabrook Alumni Distinguished Service Award, and his juris doctor degree from Vermont Law and Graduate School, Bieber began his career in the New York law offices of Columbia Pictures.

Bieber and his wife, singer Stacy Earl, reside in Southern California with their two children.