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.More