For more than four decades, Joe Feury has been successful in the entertainment industry, most notably as an award-winning producer and executive producer for film and television. He spent his youth as a dancer on Broadway, working with such noted choreographers as Agnes DeMille, Michael Kidd and Helen Tamaris. He appeared in Brigadoon, Sound of Music, Tovarich among other hit musicals. He spent a season on the weekly TV variety show The Voice of Firestone – Bell Telephone Hour.

In the 1970s Feury was married to actress Lee Grant and living in Los Angeles where he had a production company and made commercials. By 1982, Grant had begun directing and the two of them established their own independent film company, Feury Grant Productions, in New York. From their first endeavor, Strindberg’s The Stronger, starring Susan Strasberg and Dolores Dorn, they have produced a consistent body of work in both documentary and feature films.

The film Nobody’s Child won a Directors Guild Award for Grant, and No Place Like Home won the FIPA d’Argent award at the Cannes International Television Festival. Wanted: the Perfect Guy won another Directors Guild Award and an Emmy. Joe Feury’s and Lee Grant’s other films were A Matter of Sex, Staying Together, Seasons of the Heart, Reunion, and Following Her Heart. They have worked with Christine Lahti, Jeff Daniels, Kyra Sedgwick, Ben Affleck, Stockard Channing, Dermot Mulroney, Madeleine Kahn, Pearl Bailey, Marlo Thomas, Carol Burnett, George Segal, Dinah Manoff, Kathy Baker, Ann Margret and many other well-known actors, some of whom won awards for their performances.

Joe’s innate reaction to injustice and passion for politics led to an interest in making documentaries. With Lee’s history as a blacklisted actor it was a natural course for the Feury Grant partnership to take, and eventually became the bulk of their work. With seven films for HBO, Joe became one of their most valued and prolific documentary producers. He won an Academy Award for Down & Out in America, his groundbreaking film exposing homelessness in the cities and farms of this country. When Women Kill looked at the fate of women in prison on homicide convictions, Battered brought to light the issue of domestic violence and What Sex Am I? examined the lives of those in the transsexual and transgender communities. Recently Feury produced A Father…A Son… Once Upon a Time in America about Kirk and Michael Douglas and the critically acclaimed documentary on medics and the wounded in Iraq, Baghdad ER, which won Emmy and Peabody Awards.

Other documentaries include seventy biographies for Lifetime Television, telling the life stories of such remarkable women as Gloria Steinem, Vanessa Redgrave, Bella Abzug, Jane Alexander, and Anjelica Houston. There were also films for Lifetime about important issues that affect women including breast cancer, gun control, and child care.

His debut exhibition as a visual artists came in 2019 at the National Arts Gallery.

Feury-Grant Productions first film, The Stronger and their Oscar winning documentary Down and Out in America have recently been restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for inclusion in their permanent collection. Six of his documentary films were re-released in 2020 and hailed as great rediscoveries of “a singular style [with] disarming intimacy and compassion” - The Washington Post.