Robert F. Colesberry

Robert F. Colesberry Jr. (March 7, 1946 – February 9, 2004) was an American film and television producer, best known as a co-creator of the television series The Wire (2002–2008) for HBO, executive producer of the miniseries The Corner (2000), and a producer for Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985), Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning (1988), and Billy Crystal's 61* (2001). Colesberry was also an occasional actor. Born in Philadelphia, Colesberry served as an artillery lieutenant in the Army in the mid-1960s. After his discharge, he attended Southern Connecticut State University and later transferred to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he received his B.F.A. in 1974. Colesberry began his career in New York, working on films such as Andy Warhol's Bad (1977) and Alan Parker's Fame (1980).