Alan C. Blomquist

Producer Alan Blomquist, has been working in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. After a very successful career as an Executive Producer on over 25 feature films for studios like Warner Bros, Paramount and Miramax, Blomquist was instrumental in creating the extremely successful Blue Collar Comedy Tour phenomenon which transformed a successful live comedy tour into 3 feature length stand up comedy DVD's that sold over 10 million units and spawned a cottage industry of scripted movies and stand up specials. Blomquist's recent credits include "Book Club" with Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenbergen along with the very commercially successful "A Dog's Purpose" which reunited Blomquist with noted director, Lasse Hallstrom. Blomquist also produced "Chocolat" ( which garnered five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture) with Hallstrom as well as "The Cider House Rules" (nominated for seven Academy Awards) and "What's Eating Gilbert Grape". He has also executive produced the Johnny Cash biopic, "Walk The Line", "Taking Lives" with Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke, "Bounce" for Don Roos, "What Dreams May Come" with Robin Williams as well as "Spawn", "A Little Princess", "Beautiful Girls", "Of Mice and Men" and "Everybody's All American". Blomquist produced a remake of the cult film, "Vanishing Point" for Fox TV with Viggo Mortenson and received an Emmy for the ABC After School Special, "The War Between the Classes". Blomquist has produced and/or directed over 14 one hour, multi camera stand up specials for talent as diverse as Lisa Lampanelli, Russell Peters, Ralphie May as well as Larry the Cable Guy and Bill Engvall. These shows have aired on HBO, Comedy Central and TBS. Prior to producing, Blomquist served in various key production capacities for both feature films and television. He was the first assistant director on "Iron Eagle" and the unit production manager on "La Bamba" and "Uncle Buck". Blomquist lives in Los Angeles with his fifteen year old daughter,Annika. His twin sons, Sam and Estella, are off making their way in the world.