A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
March 22, 1984
Original Title:
Police Academy
Alternate Titles:
Academia de Polícia
Locademia de policía
Police Academy
Police Academy 1: What an Institution
Polisskolan
学警出更
金牌警校军
Genres:
Comedy | Crime
Production Companies:
The Ladd Company
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M BR: 12 DE: 16 DK: A ES: 12 FI: K-16 FR: U|16|18 GB: 15 GR: 13 HU: 16 IE: 18 IT: T KR: 15 NL: 14 PT: M/12 SE: 11 US: R
Runtime: 97
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!
ADR Editor:
Paul B. Clay
ADR Mixer:
Alan Holly
Don White
Additional Photography:
Robert Saad
Art Designer:
Drew Struzan
Assistant Accountant:
Lyn Lucibello
Assistant Camera:
Joachim Martin
Pat Williams
Assistant Editor:
Howard Heard
Assistant Sound Editor:
Dave Kulczycki
Best Boy Electric:
Tony Eldridge
Best Boy Grip:
Glen Goodchild
Boom Operator:
Steve Switzer
Camera Operator:
Peter Luxford
Carpenter:
Paul Theodore
Casting:
Fern Champion
Pamela Basker
Color Timer:
Robert Raring
Conductor:
Robert Folk
Construction Coordinator:
Neil Grocutt
Costume Design:
Christopher Ryan
Director:
Hugh Wilson
Director of Photography:
Michael D. Margulies
Editor:
Zach Staenberg
Robert Brown
Editorial Staff:
Terry Kelley
Ben Williams
Executive Producer:
Alan Ladd Jr.
Gareth Wigan
Extras Casting:
Peter Lavender
First Assistant Director:
Michael Zenon
Foley Artist:
Gary A. Hecker
Foley Editor:
Bob Rutledge
Foley Mixer:
Alan Holly
Gaffer:
Chris Holmes
Generator Operator:
David G. Todd
Hairstylist:
James D. Brown
Key Grip:
Ron Gillham
Location Manager:
Michael Brownstone
Makeup Artist:
Ken Brooke
Music Coordinator:
Paula Spang
Music Editor:
Douglas M. Lackey
Musician:
Larry Bunker
George Doering
Henry Sigismonti
Arnold Belnick
Richard Nash
Harris Goldman
Pamela Goldsmith
Ronald Langinger
Ronald Cooper
Gwenn Heller
Craig Huxley
Erno Neufeld
John Wittenberg
Ron Leonard
Buell Neidlinger
Mike Nowak
Graham Young
Chuck Domanico
Richard Perissi
Harry Shlutz
Tommy Johnson
Arthur Maebe
Lloyd Ulyate
John Winter
Bob Zimmitti
Michael Lang
Malcolm McNab
Peter Mercurio
Joe Porcaro
Jay Rosen
Vince De Rosa
Elizabeth Finch
Barbara Hunter
Sheridon Stokes
Harry Bluestone
Alan DeVeritch
Norman Carr
Drew Dembowski
Norman Herzburg
Frank Marocco
James Thatcher
Louise Di Tullio
Ken Watson
Denyse Buffum
Bob DiVall
Linn Subotnick
David Duke
Dominick Fera
Paula Hochhalter
George Roberts
Ian Underwood
Haim Shtrum
Robert Adcock
Murray Adler
Negative Cutter:
Donah Bassett
Orchestrator:
Robert Folk
Original Concept:
Paul Maslansky
Original Music Composer:
Robert Folk
Painter:
I.R. McEune
Serge Genitempo
Presenter:
Alan Ladd Jr.
Producer:
Paul Maslansky
Production Accountant:
Donald L. West
Production Assistant:
Sasha Maslansky
Benita Allen
Christopher Kroll
Production Coordinator:
Suzanne Lore
Production Design:
Trevor Williams
Production Manager:
James Margellos
Production Secretary:
Andrea Poulis
Production Sound Mixer:
David Lee
Property Master:
Chris Biden
John 'Frenchie' Berger
Publicist:
Patricia Johnson
Scenic Artist:
Guenter Bartlik
Scoring Mixer:
Dan Wallin
Robert Fernandez
Screenplay:
Hugh Wilson
Neal Israel
Pat Proft
Script Supervisor:
Penelope Hynam
Penny Hynam
Second Assistant Director:
Richard Flower
Allan Harmon
Rocco Gismondi
Set Decoration:
Steve Shewchuk
Set Production Assistant:
Curtis Carlin
Sound Assistant:
Ron Scelza
Sound Editor:
John M. Colwell
Stanley Paul
William Hooper
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Don MacDougall
Richard Tyler
John L. Mack
Special Effects:
David Neil Trifunovich
Roger Hansen
Special Effects Assistant:
Gene Grigg
Still Photographer:
Shin Sugino
Story:
Neal Israel
Pat Proft
Stunt Coordinator:
Joe Dunne
Stunt Double:
Dar Robinson
Todd Schroeder
Stunts:
Janet Brady
Wink Roberts
Denver Mattson
Dar Robinson
Buzz Bundy
Gary McLarty
Angie Reno
Debbie Kirby
Julius LeFlore
Ted Hanlan
Todd Schroeder
Joe Dunne
Gene Mack
Dwayne McLean
George Marshall Ruge
Branko Racki
F. Braun McAsh
Peter Cox
Carol Daniels
Marco Bianco
T.J. Scott
Celia Bond
Brent Meyer
Supervising Sound Editor:
Anthony Ippolito
Transportation Captain:
Craig S. Kohne
Transportation Coordinator:
Jim Kennedy
Wardrobe Assistant:
Linda Kemp
SJ Teasdale
Larry S. Wells
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