Legendary film producer Marty Bregman was the driving force behind a collection of mega-hits in the 1970s and '80s, including Serpico, Scarface, and Dog Day Afternoon.

Bregman started out in talent management, repping stars like Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Faye Dunaway, Barbra Streisand, and Al Pacino. He turned to producing in the early 1970s; the first movie he assembled, Serpico, starring his client Pacino, was a critical and commercial smash. Subsequent productions with Pacino, such as Dog Day Afternoon, were also big box office draws. Less successful were the movies he produced with ex-client Alan Alda, like 1981's The Four Seasons and Sweet Liberty. In 1983 Bregman released the biggest hit of his career, the gangster epic Scarface. While initially a box office dud-when it hit theaters, it was widely panned by critics for its over-the-top violence-it's now regarded as a classic crime flick, and is the favorite movie of virtually every rapper on the planet. In recent years, though, it's been increasingly clear that Bregman's best days are behind him. He produced 1999's The Bone Collector and the 2002 Eddie Murphy comedy The Adventures of Pluto Nash, a now-legendary disaster that one critic described as "unremittingly awful."

Bregman has two children, Michael and Christopher, with his first wife, Elizabeth Driscoll. He met his second wife, Cornelia Sharpe, on the set of Serpico; they have one daughter and live in New York City. [Image via Getty]