Life and career

Glazer was born in Key Biscayne, Florida, and was raised in Miami, the son of Leonard and Zelda Glazer, an English teacher. Glazer is a relative of Sidney Glazier and musician Tom Glazer. He attended Miami Beach High School. He attended Clark University before transferring to NYU. Before becoming a screenwriter, he wrote for the music publications Rolling Stone magazine and Crawdaddy!, where he met and befriended Timothy White.

Glazer was a reporter for Crawdaddy! magazine in the late 1970s. He collaborated with friend and writing partner Michael O'Donoghue on several projects, most notably the holiday comedy Scrooged that starred Bill Murray.

Glazer was formerly married to actress Wendie Malick but divorced her in 1989 after seven years. In 1993 he married actress Kelly Lynch and legally adopted her daughter Shane. Glazer and Lynch own two modern architectural homes in California: one by John Lautner in the Hollywood Hills and the other by Richard Neutra in Lone Pine, California. In 2007, Glazer and his wife Kelly Lynch were named as one of Vanity Fair's best-dressed couples.

Glazer is friends with Mickey Rourke, whom he was two years behind at Miami Beach High School.

Filmography

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
1979	Mr. Mike's Mondo Video	Writer, actor	With Michael O'Donoghue Role: Man selling film to Mr. Mike
1981	Saturday Night Live	Writer	Episode: "Jr. Walker & the All-Stars"
1988	Scrooged	Writer, actor	With Michael O'Donoghue Role: Guest
1990	Totally Hidden Video	Segment producer	Television series
1991	Off and Running	Writer
1993	Three of Hearts	Writer	With Adam Greenman
1998	Great Expectations	Writer	With Alfonso Cuaron and David Mamet
2003	Lost in Translation	Associate producer
2003	The Recruit	Writer	With Roger Towne and Kurt Wimmer
2006	Drifting Elegant	Producer
2010	Passion Play	Writer, director
2012-13	Magic City	Showrunner, creator, writer
2015	Rock the Kasbah	Writer
2015	A Very Murray Christmas	Writer	Television film

Charities

Mitch Glazer supports the following charitable cause: Teens.

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