Person Details

Birthday: 1945-01-01 18:24:26

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: N/A

Place of birth: Chicago, IL, USA

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Movie Involvements: 28

TV Involvements: 2


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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gary Sherman, (born 1945), is an American film director, producer, and writer from Chicago, Illinois. He began his career directing short films, commercials, industrials, and documentaries while still an undergraduate at IIT's Institute of Design. After graduating, Gary moved to London, England, where he continued directing commercials and also co-wrote and directed his first feature film, Death Line starring Donald Pleasence. The British Film Institute called this debut "The Most Significant Directorial Debut of the Year". Upon relocating to Los Angeles, California, he continued writing and collaborating on many feature scripts. He also wrote and directed several television pilots. Avco-Embassy producer Ronald Shusett asked Sherman to direct the 1981 horror film Dead & Buried, and Sherman followed that film with the action-thriller Vice Squad shot by Stanley Kubrick's DP John Alcott. Like Death Line, these films often polarized critics and audiences and have since gone on to become genre classics. Next he co-wrote and directed the thriller Wanted: Dead or Alive starring Rutger Hauer and Gene Simmons. Teamed with Gene, the award-winning Rock Against Drugs public service campaign for MTV came about as well as the pilot for the ABC series Sable. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Sherman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

First Wave
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7

First Wave

(1998) Writer
Poltergeist III
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5

Poltergeist III

(1988) Screenplay
Dead & Buried
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6

Dead & Buried

(1981) Director
Wanted: Dead or Alive
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6

Wanted: Dead or Alive

(1987) Writer
Death Line
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6

Death Line

(1972) Original Story
Vice Squad
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6

Vice Squad

(1982) Director
Lisa
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6

Lisa

(1990) Writer
The Glow
Average
5

The Glow

(2002) Teleplay

Acting

Directing

Writing

Creator

Year Role Movie/Tv
1993 Creator
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1991 Producer
1990 Producer
1988 Executive Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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