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Gary Sherman is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 1 january 1945 at Chicago (USA)

Gary Sherman

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Nationality USA
Birth 1 january 1945 (79 years) at Chicago (USA)

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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Jerry Hardin
Jerry Hardin
(2 films)
Nancy Allen
Nancy Allen
(1 films)
Tom Nolan
Tom Nolan
(1 films)
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Filmography of Gary Sherman (10 films)

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Director

39: A Film by Carroll McKane, 1h37
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Martin Cummins
Rating60% 3.00643.00643.00643.00643.0064
Lisa
Lisa (1990)
, 1h35
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Romance
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Cheryl Ladd, Staci Keanan, D. W. Moffett, Jeffrey Tambor, Julie Cobb, Edan Gross
Rating58% 2.9482752.9482752.9482752.9482752.948275
Fourteen-year-old Lisa Holland (Staci Keanan) lives with her mother Katherine (Cheryl Ladd), a successful florist, in Venice Beach, California. Lisa is beginning to show a keen interest in boys but is not allowed to date due to her mother’s strict rule about not dating until she is 16. It is revealed that Katherine had Lisa when she was 14 years old. Abandoned by Lisa's father, Katherine was forced to leave home after her parents demanded that she put Lisa up for adoption. These facts have made Katherine very wary about Lisa dating, feeling she would end up like her mother. Lisa’s desire to have a boyfriend is furthered by her best friend Wendy Marks, whose less-strict mother and father have allowed her to start dating.
Poltergeist III, 1h38
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Ghost films
Actors Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Lara Flynn Boyle, Nathan Davis
Rating47% 2.3559452.3559452.3559452.3559452.355945
The Freeling family has sent Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) to live with Diane's sister Pat (Nancy Allen) and her husband Bruce Gardner (Tom Skerritt). Carol Anne has been told she is in Chicago temporarily to attend a unique school for gifted children with emotional problems, though Pat thinks it is because Steven and Diane just wanted Carol Anne out of their house. Pat and Bruce are unaware of the events of the first two films, just noting that Steven was involved in a bad land deal. Along with Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle), Bruce's daughter from a previous marriage, they live in the luxury skyscraper (Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center) of which Bruce is the manager.
Wanted: Dead or Alive, 1h46
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Rutger Hauer, Gene Simmons, Robert Guillaume, Mel Harris, William Russ, Jerry Hardin
Rating59% 2.950212.950212.950212.950212.95021
Nick Randall is a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter and an ex-CIA operative, who is asked by a former co-worker to help track down terrorist Malak Al Rahim. However, Malak Al Rahim is also looking for Randall, and Randall's employers tell him where to find him, resulting in the death of his best friend, Sgt. Danny Quintz, and his girlfriend Terry, eventually forcing a showdown on the waterfront.
Vice Squad
Vice Squad (1982)
, 1h52
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Actors Season Hubley, Wings Hauser, Kelly Piper, Pepe Serna, Beverly Todd, Nina Blackwood
Rating63% 3.1966753.1966753.1966753.1966753.196675
When Los Angeles' police force down-on-her-luck businesswoman-turned-prostitute "Princess" (Season Hubley) to help capture a murderous pimp named Ramrod (Wings Hauser), it's Princess's life that is put on the line. Soon, the escaped killer is after her, and vice squad detective Tom Walsh (Gary Swanson) and his team are hard pressed to keep the woman safe.
Dead & Buried, 1h32
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Robert Englund, Lisa Blount, Michael Currie
Rating64% 3.2488953.2488953.2488953.2488953.248895
James Farentino stars as Dan Gillis, sheriff of the small New England coastal town of Potter's Bluff. In the film's opening scene, a mob of townspeople attempt to kill a visiting photographer. He is beaten, tied to a post then set on fire. He survives and is taken to a hospital, where he is murdered just out of sight of the sheriff and the doctor.
Death Line
Death Line (1972)
, 1h27
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, Christopher Lee, David Ladd, Clive Swift, James Cossins
Rating58% 2.948462.948462.948462.948462.94846
A family of cannibals descended from Victorian railway workers, who were buried alive during construction, continue to dwell in the disused lines of the London Underground tube network. The last member of the family frequently visits the neighbouring Russell Square and Holborn stations to pick off passengers for food, then takes them back to the gruesome 'pantry' at an incomplete station. When the cannibal kidnaps and kills an important politician, he is hunted by a detective as well as an American college student and his English girlfriend who were the last to see the victim in the tube station. Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington star as the investigating police officers. At the climax, when finally cornered and with his wife and the last of his family members dead from disease, the cannibal screams a corrupted form of "Mind the doors!", having picked it up parrot-fashion from the guards on the Underground trains.

Scriptwriter

Lisa
Lisa (1990)
, 1h35
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Romance
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Cheryl Ladd, Staci Keanan, D. W. Moffett, Jeffrey Tambor, Julie Cobb, Edan Gross
Roles Writer
Rating58% 2.9482752.9482752.9482752.9482752.948275
Fourteen-year-old Lisa Holland (Staci Keanan) lives with her mother Katherine (Cheryl Ladd), a successful florist, in Venice Beach, California. Lisa is beginning to show a keen interest in boys but is not allowed to date due to her mother’s strict rule about not dating until she is 16. It is revealed that Katherine had Lisa when she was 14 years old. Abandoned by Lisa's father, Katherine was forced to leave home after her parents demanded that she put Lisa up for adoption. These facts have made Katherine very wary about Lisa dating, feeling she would end up like her mother. Lisa’s desire to have a boyfriend is furthered by her best friend Wendy Marks, whose less-strict mother and father have allowed her to start dating.
Fire and Rain, 1h29
Directed by Jerry Jameson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Charles Haid, Angie Dickinson, Penny Fuller, Tom Bosley, David Hasselhoff, Dean Jones
Roles Writer
Rating55% 2.770912.770912.770912.770912.77091
On August 2, 1985, Delta Airlines Flight 191, flown by Captain Connors (John Beck) and First Officer Rudy Price (Dick Christie) are preparing to land at Dallas on its single stop, flying from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Los Angeles. Air Traffic controllers advise that a thunderstorm is present. The flight crew surmise that the aircraft might get washed, but have no other worries about the storm being so near. Passengers such as Lucille Jacobson (Patti Labelle), who is terrified of flying, however, are fearful about landing in a storm. Others, like Marilyn (Gloria Hocking) and Mike Steinberg (Joe Berryman) are thinking more about their California vacation. As the rain pelts down on the airliner, there is no warning of an impending crisis.
Poltergeist III, 1h38
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Ghost films
Actors Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Lara Flynn Boyle, Nathan Davis
Rating47% 2.3559452.3559452.3559452.3559452.355945
The Freeling family has sent Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) to live with Diane's sister Pat (Nancy Allen) and her husband Bruce Gardner (Tom Skerritt). Carol Anne has been told she is in Chicago temporarily to attend a unique school for gifted children with emotional problems, though Pat thinks it is because Steven and Diane just wanted Carol Anne out of their house. Pat and Bruce are unaware of the events of the first two films, just noting that Steven was involved in a bad land deal. Along with Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle), Bruce's daughter from a previous marriage, they live in the luxury skyscraper (Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center) of which Bruce is the manager.
Wanted: Dead or Alive, 1h46
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Rutger Hauer, Gene Simmons, Robert Guillaume, Mel Harris, William Russ, Jerry Hardin
Roles Writer
Rating59% 2.950212.950212.950212.950212.95021
Nick Randall is a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter and an ex-CIA operative, who is asked by a former co-worker to help track down terrorist Malak Al Rahim. However, Malak Al Rahim is also looking for Randall, and Randall's employers tell him where to find him, resulting in the death of his best friend, Sgt. Danny Quintz, and his girlfriend Terry, eventually forcing a showdown on the waterfront.
Vice Squad
Vice Squad (1982)
, 1h52
Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Actors Season Hubley, Wings Hauser, Kelly Piper, Pepe Serna, Beverly Todd, Nina Blackwood
Rating63% 3.1966753.1966753.1966753.1966753.196675
When Los Angeles' police force down-on-her-luck businesswoman-turned-prostitute "Princess" (Season Hubley) to help capture a murderous pimp named Ramrod (Wings Hauser), it's Princess's life that is put on the line. Soon, the escaped killer is after her, and vice squad detective Tom Walsh (Gary Swanson) and his team are hard pressed to keep the woman safe.
Phobia
Phobia (1980)
, 1h34
Directed by John Huston
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Paul Michael Glaser, Susan Hogan, John Colicos, Fritz Weaver, Alexandra Stewart, Sean Scully
Roles Story
Rating42% 2.121282.121282.121282.121282.12128
Psychiatrist Dr. Peter Ross (Glaser) M.D., is using radical techniques on his patients to cure them of their various phobias. He becomes terrified when someone starts murdering the subjects one at a time.