Biography

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)

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