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| Popular As | Julius R. Nasso |
| Occupation | Producer |
| Age | 72 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Libra |
| Born | October 19, 1952 () |
| Birthday | October 19 |
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Julius R. Nasso’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
Julius R. Nasso was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
In 1976, Julius graduated from St. John's University with a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy. He then earned an advanced Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Connecticut. While attending college in 1974, he founded Universal Marine Medical Supply, Co.
(UMMSC), which is now the largest international medical supply company servicing cruise ships, oil rigs, super yachts, merchant vessels, tankers, and freighters. Julius is CEO of UMMSC, which maintains offices in New York, Miami, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Southampton England, Singapore and Athens.
In 1977, Julius and his college professor Dr. Satish Patel formed Tishcon Corporation, one of the nation's largest private labeling vitamin and health supplement manufacturing plants, headquartered in Westbury, New York.
In 1978, along with Xavier Roberts, he capitalized on the the worldwide Cabbage Patch craze by opening the Cabbage Patch Babyland General Hospital Store, formerly located on 41st Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan.
At Babyland General Hospital Julius met Steve Ross, then CEO of Time Warner, who became instrumental in Julius' acquisition of an overall production deal at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California.
In 1980, while continuing his career in pharmaceutical distribution, Julius accepted a position as a personal assistant to director Sergio Leone. Under Leone, Julius worked on the New York portion of Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and participated in the development of two films: In God's Name and Saint Peter's Banker.
At this time, Julius began to attend courses and seminars in film production at Cinecittà Studios in Rome, Italy. From 1981 to 1983, while still developing projects with Leone, Julius went on to produce a television pilot for a Fox TV show entitled "Behind the 8 Ball," starring Jerry Orbach, John Amos, and Jimmy Baio.
Julius's next venture was as Head of International Promotions for the action film Above the Law (1988). This led to a 17-year producing partnership with Warner Brothers Studios, where Julius was responsible for producing a series of action blockbusters including: Hard to Kill (1990), Marked for Death (1990), Out for Justice (1991), Under Siege (1992), On Deadly Ground (1994), Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), The Glimmer Man (1996), Fire Down Below (1997) and The Patriot (1998).
After his 17-year tenure at Warner Brothers Studios as a producer, Julius returned to New York and co-founded Manhattan Pictures. Julius then produced and distributed Enigma (2001), starring Kate Winslet, The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002) and Éloge de l'amour (2001), a Jean-Luc Godard film.
In concurrence with Manhattan Pictures, Julius founded Julius R. Nasso Productions, which produced award-winning films including: Prince of Central Park (2000), starring Kathleen Turner, Danny Aiello, Cathy Moriarty, Jerry Orbach and Harvey Keitel; and One Eyed King (2001), starring William Baldwin, Dash Mihok, Armand Assante, Jason Gedrick, Connie Britton, and Chazz Palminteri.
Julius' most acclaimed achievement is his production of Narc (2002), starring Jason Patric, Ray Liotta, and Busta Rhymes, which was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award and won the Special Prize Policier Award at the Cognac Film Festival in France.
Following Narc, Julius produced In Enemy Hands (2004), starring William H. Macy, Til Schweiger, Lauren Holly, and Scott Caan; and The Poet (2007), starring Roy Schneider and Daryl Hannah, and Nina Dobrev.
Since 2006, Julius has been working as Harry Belafonte's producer on a number of projects including Sing Your Song (2011) and Another Night In The Free World. Sing Your Song is a biographical documentary that surveys the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte.
Another Night In The Free World will be Julius' first movie documentary promoting nonviolence.Julius has produced multiple films premiering in 2013, including Accidental Love (2015), starring Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel; Squatters (2014), starring Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss and Thomas Dekker; Breakout (2013), starring Brendan Fraser and Dominic Purcell; Pride of Lions (2014) starring Louis Gossett Jr.
and Bo Svenson; and Getaway (2013), inspired by the Steve McQueen hit of the same name, starring Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez and Jon Voight.Julius has recently teamed up with Whoopi Goldberg to produce The Christmas Pearl, based on the bestselling novel written by Dorothea Benton Frank and scheduled to be released Christmas 2014.
Julius has earned numerous critical honors, including the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary for his work with Harry Belafonte on Sing Your Song (2011). He is a 20-year Directors Guild of America member and a highly respected philanthropist, having been honored by countless civic leaders and institutions for his tireless charitable works.
Julius recently co-founded Belafonte Arts and Media, located in Manhattan, has multiple movie projects in development and remains CEO of UMMSC International.
