Biography
Jim Painten was a producer and production supervisor in film and television. He is credited as a producer on the 1990 feature The Grifters, alongside Martin Scorsese and Robert A. Harris. His other credits include production supervision or management on television projects such as My So-Called Life (1994), My Life and Times (1991) and episodes of Moonlighting.
Painten graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and served with the Peace Corps in Iran. He began his career working on documentary films in New York City before moving to Los Angeles, where he joined the production team at ABC/Disney. He died in January 2025.
