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Outlaw Productions is an American film production company founded in 1987 by the late Robert Newmyer and Jeffrey Silver. They have produced independent films as well as major studio features. In 2015, the President was Newmyer's widow, Deb Newmyer, an independent movie and television producer in her
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Newmyer was married to wife Deborah Jelin Newmyer for nineteen years. They had four children, Sofi, Teddy, James and Billi, all of Los Angeles; his parents, and his two sisters, Elsa Newmyer of the District of Columbia and Lory Newmyer of Hull, Massachusetts.
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Newmyer also had in development of a movie about the young boys forced to flee war-torn and famine-ridden Sudan, an idea that arose from a segment on
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in 1978 and afterward worked as a real estate developer in Telluride, Colorado. In 1982 he received a master's degree in business administration from
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According to long-time friend, documentary filmmaker Eames Yates, "Just before he graduated, he saw Spielberg's
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and he came out and said, 'That's what I want to do'." Newmyer went on to hold a variety of positions at
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Newmyer and Jeffrey Silver then formed "Outlaw Productions", the name derived from Newmyer's favorite
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character, the outlaw Josey Wales. The production company had, for a time, a long-term deal with
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for 12 years. In 2006, Deb Newmyer and her Outlaw company received a first look deal with Sony.
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The Bobby Newmyer Memorial Fund was established to further his work with Sudanese refugees.
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Gold, Matea. "Robert Newmyer, 49; Independent Producer Made Two Dozen Films",
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Zeitchik, Steven. "'The Good Lie's' improbable Hollywood journey",
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Robert Frederick Newmyer (Bobby) was born on May 30, 1956, in
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He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
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On December 12, 2005, Newmyer died at the age of 49 in
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1990 Independent Spirit Award (with John Hardy) for
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