A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Born:
January 1, 1945
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.
Director:
1972 Death Line
1981 Dead & Buried
1982 Mysterious Two
1982 Vice Squad
1984 The Streets
1987 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1988 Poltergeist III
1990 After the Shock
1990 Lisa
1991 Murderous Vision
2006 39: A Film by Carroll McKane
Executive Producer:
1972 Death Line
1981 Dead & Buried
1982 Mysterious Two
1982 Vice Squad
1984 The Streets
1987 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1988 Poltergeist III
1990 After the Shock
1990 Lisa
1991 Murderous Vision
2006 39: A Film by Carroll McKane
Original Story:
1972 Death Line
1981 Dead & Buried
1982 Mysterious Two
1982 Vice Squad
1984 The Streets
1987 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1988 Poltergeist III
1990 After the Shock
1990 Lisa
1991 Murderous Vision
2006 39: A Film by Carroll McKane
Producer:
1972 Death Line
1981 Dead & Buried
1982 Mysterious Two
1982 Vice Squad
1984 The Streets
1987 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1988 Poltergeist III
1990 After the Shock
1990 Lisa
1991 Murderous Vision
2006 39: A Film by Carroll McKane
Screenplay:
1972 Death Line
1979 Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women
1981 Dead & Buried
1982 Mysterious Two
1982 Vice Squad
1984 The Streets
1987 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1988 Poltergeist III
1990 After the Shock
1990 Lisa
1991 Murderous Vision
2006 39: A Film by Carroll McKane
Story:
1972 Death Line
1979 Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women
1980 Phobia
1981 Dead & Buried
1982 Mysterious Two
1982 Vice Squad
1984 The Streets
1987 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1988 Poltergeist III
1990 After the Shock
1990 Lisa
1991 Murderous Vision
2006 39: A Film by Carroll McKane
Teleplay:
1972 Death Line
1979 Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women
1980 Phobia
1981 Dead & Buried
1982 Mysterious Two
1982 Vice Squad
1984 The Streets
1987 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1988 Poltergeist III
1990 After the Shock
1990 Lisa
1991 Murderous Vision
2002 The Glow
2006 39: A Film by Carroll McKane
Writer:
1972 Death Line
1979 Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women
1980 Phobia
1981 Dead & Buried
1982 Mysterious Two
1982 Vice Squad
1984 The Streets
1987 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1988 Poltergeist III
1990 After the Shock
1990 Fire and Rain
1990 Lisa
1991 Murderous Vision
2002 The Glow
2006 39: A Film by Carroll McKane
Creator:
1993 Missing Persons
Writer:
1993 Missing Persons
1998 First Wave
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.