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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.
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Born
Monday, 01 January 1945
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story | Self | 2023 |
Tales of the Uncanny | Self | 2020 |
Cursed Films | Self - Director, Poltergeist III | 2020 |
Memory: The Origins of Alien | Self / Self - Director, Death Line & Dead & Buried | 2019 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story | Self | 2023 |
Tales of the Uncanny | Self | 2020 |
Cursed Films | Self - Director, Poltergeist III | 2020 |
Memory: The Origins of Alien | Self / Self - Director, Death Line & Dead & Buried | 2019 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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39: A Film by Carroll McKane | 2006 |
Poltergeist: The Legacy | 1996 |
Missing Persons | 1993 |
Murderous Vision | 1991 |
After the Shock | 1990 |
Lisa | 1989 |
Poltergeist III | 1988 |
Sable | 1987 |
Wanted: Dead or Alive | 1987 |
Mysterious Two | 1982 |
Vice Squad | 1982 |
Dead & Buried | 1981 |
Death Line | 1972 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters | 2023 |
The First 48: Missing Persons | 2011 |
39: A Film by Carroll McKane | 2006 |
The Glow | 2002 |
Poltergeist: The Legacy | 1996 |
Missing Persons | 1993 |
Murderous Vision | 1991 |
After the Shock | 1990 |
Lisa | 1989 |
Poltergeist III | 1988 |
Sable | 1987 |