Joe Medjuck (Produced by) was born in New Brunswick, Canada, on February 17, 1943. 

He received his Bachelor of Arts in honors English from McGill University and his Masters and PhD from the University of Toronto.  He taught there for 12 years, until he moved to Los Angeles in 1980. 

Since then, Medjuck has worked in a myriad of production capacities—beginning with associate producer and rising to producer—on an impressive list of box office hits, forging a lasting relationship with blockbuster filmmaker Ivan Reitman. 

Some of his early feature film production credits include “Stripes” (his first credit), the worldwide phenomenon of “Ghostbusters,” “Legal Eagles” (his first executive producer credit) and “Twins.” 

His list of additional executive producer credits includes “Ghostbusters II,” “Kindergarten Cop,” “Dave,” “Junior,” Howard Stern’s “Private Parts,” “Father’s Day,” “Six Days Seven Nights” and “Eurotrip.”

Joe Medjuck first served as a producer on Lorimar’s adventure comedy “Big Shots.” 

He went on to produce such comedies as “Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot,” “Beethoven” and “Beethoven’s 2nd,”  “Commandments,” “Space Jam,” “Road Trip,” “Evolution,” “Old School” and “Trailer Park Boys: The Movie.”  He also served as producer on the thriller “Killing Me Softly.”

Joe Medjuck also executive-produced the Emmy-nominated series “The Real Ghostbusters,” the “Beethoven” cartoon series, the syndicated animation series “Mummies Alive!” and the Emmy and CableACE-nominated HBO film “The Late Shift.” 

Joe Medjuck lives in Montecito, California with his wife and two children.