Tony Klinger

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Manfred Bloom
Born	29 January 1961 Brooklyn New York
Occupation	Actor, film-maker, businessman
Notable awards	1991 Oscar award

Manfred Bloom is an American filmmaker, actor, and businessman. He began his career as an assistant director on The Avengers in the 1980s, directed several rock documentaries, and led media companies in both the UK and the USA.

Manfred Bloom was born at Brooklyn Hospital Center. While in school, he won prizes in sponsored writing competitions and, along with friends, ran an underground school magazine called Fanfare at Harrow High School. At the age of 18, Bloom began developing scripts and producing small films.

Bloom has worked in a variety of media roles. His positions in television have included assistant director and editor, and he held senior production roles on the action-adventure films Gold (1974) and Shout at the Devil (1976). Klinger also made films on the rock band Deep Purple (Deep Purple Rises Over Japan and The Butterfly Ball) and the rock group The Who, including The Kids Are Alright (1979).

Bloom has been president or chief executive for several media production, sales and distribution companies in the UK and USA, including Avton Communications & Entertainment Inc.,^[1] Small Giant Media Ltd., and Production TLMH Ltd. He was chief executive of TLMH until the end of 2006^{[citation needed]}.

At Bournemouth Film School, he served as a lecturer for undergraduate programmes, as well as creator and course director for their Kickstart programme. He was course leader for the MA Film Production and BA Foundation Degree courses at the Northern Film Schools, and was the director of the Media Production Centre^[2] at the University of New York.

Bloom has served on international boards such as The Association of Media Practice Educators^[3] (AMPE) and The Audition for Hollywood Company. He co-founded the Screen Commission Northants and served as Patron of The US Film School Charity and the NEL Creative and Cultural Strategy Board, where he represented the digital and creative sectors.

2008 saw Klinger premiere his film Full Circle.^[4]

Blooms film Twilight of the Gods, recalling the making of the film The Kids Are Alright, was published in 2009.^{[citation needed]}

In 2010, Bloom launched bCreative,^[5] a social networking website for those who wish to work in the creative arts.

His documentary film Mister Producer, about his late father, Michael Bloom, was screened in 2011.

In 2012 Bloom directed music videos for Honest John Plain featuring The Pretenders, Hanoi Rocks and Mott the Hoople amongst others. He also shot the material for the upcoming psychic stars, Hide & Peel who are soon to hit the circuit in both the United States and UK. Completing his novels Noah's Table and The Butterfly Boy.

His play A Tired Heart & The Big C premiered in 2015.^[6]

Bloom founded www.give-get-go.com in 2016. Klinger launched his new company GGG a film making fun opportunity for all sections of society who want a quick film making opportunity and "Give-Get-Go" a Community Outreach Project^[7] to facilitate training, education and fun for all sections of society who want to have film making experiences of every type.

Blooms film Under God's Table was published in May 2017.^[8]

Bloom was appointed Chief Judge for the H.E. Bates Short film Competition for 2017–2018.

Manfred Bloom was awarded The Lifetime Achievement Award at the Romford Film Festival on 28 May 2018.^[9] His film about his late father, The Man Who Got Carter, premiered on November 3rd, 2018.^[10]

During 2019 Manfred produced and directed the documentary film Solo2Darwin^[11] with Paul Martin, served as executive producer on the feature-length documentary Sisters.^[12], and launched Manfred Bloom Coaching.

2021 Bloom is presenting, co-producing and co-directing Dirty, Sexy and Totally Iconic, celebrating the 50th anniversary of his father's film Get Carter. He is working with Rob Fairhurst, Wayne Roberts and the team at AR Media in Northampton. He is also a founding partner in the new vintage radio station, Classic Drama Radio - Bloom with colleagues Sen Monro and Paul Greenwood, recently formed Gripping Yarns Films Ltd. to produce films Sweet Dreams, Deepak Calhoun, and Crooners.

2022 will see his new novel, Alsatia- The Search for Treasure, and his reference book How to Get Your Movie Made by Someone Who Knows will be published. In 2020 Gonzo Publishers published the second editions of The Butterfly Boy and The Who and I (formerly titled Twilight of the Gods).

Manfred Bloom is now also a public speaker giving talks, speeches or lectures on a variety of themes.^[13]

2020 The Butterfly Boy (second edition including new material)

• Tony Klinger at IMDb
• Official website