{"id":13782,"date":"2011-12-14T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13782"},"modified":"2011-12-14T17:17:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T17:17:04","slug":"bert-schneider-1933-2011-easy-rider-five-easy-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/12\/14\/bert-schneider-1933-2011-easy-rider-five-easy-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Bert Schneider (1933-2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The producer who helped kicked start the New Hollywood era passed away on Monday at the age of 78.<\/p>\n

Due to the varied nature of their role, and the dominance of the auteur theory since the 1960s, producers don’t tend to get as much credit as directors.<\/p>\n

But Bert Schneider<\/strong> was a key figure in the New Hollywood era<\/a>, producing landmark films such as Easy Rider<\/a> (1969), Five Easy Pieces<\/a> (1970) and The Last Picture Show<\/a> (1971).<\/p>\n

For someone who tapped into the radical counter culture in such a big way, he was was the son of former Columbia Pictures<\/a> chairman Abraham Schneider.<\/p>\n

It was whilst working in New York for Columbia that he and Bob Rafelson<\/a> came up with the idea for The Monkees<\/a>, a manufactured pop group modelled on The Beatles<\/a>.<\/p>\n