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Neal Israel is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Production Director American born on 27 july 1945
Neal Israel is an American actor, screenwriter, film and television producer and director best known for his comedic work in the 1980s for films such as Police Academy, Real Genius, and Bachelor Party.
Israel started his career on the Broadway stage as assistant to legendary director George Abbott. After working at the New Dramatists Guild and the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference he came to LA, and was an executive at both ABC and CBS. During this time he wrote and directed the break through indie hit Tunnel Vision, which introduced such future stars as Chevy Chase, John Candy and Al Franken. On television, he wrote Ringo, a special that starred Ringo Starr and George Harrison. He then wrote with his partner, Pat Proft, the first Police Academy movie, which spawned six sequels. He directed and co wrote Bachelor Party, which starred Tom Hanks. He followed this with the comedy Moving Violations. Real Genius, another of his scripts, was made into a successful film starring Val Kilmer, and in 1987, he produced the film Three O'Clock High. He also directed "Breaking The Rules" starring Jason Bateman and the cult classic "Surf Ninjas" with Rob Schneider and Leslie Nielsen.
Neal continues to work in both film and television as a writer, director and producer and script doctor. He has directed numerous movies of the week, pilots, and episodes of shows such as The Wonder Years, Nash Bridges, "Joan of Arcadia", and Even Stevens. Recent directing credits include Disney's Zeke and Luther and Kickin It.
In 2004, he executive produced the Academy Award nominated film Finding Neverland which starred Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.
Personal life
During the eighties, Neal married director Amy Heckerling. They had one daughter, Mollie, before divorcing in 1984.
(2004)
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(1986)
(Characters)
(1984)
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(1987)
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(1985)
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Neal Israel is an American actor, screenwriter, film and television producer and director best known for his comedic work in the 1980s for films such as Police Academy, Real Genius, and Bachelor Party.
Biography
CareerIsrael started his career on the Broadway stage as assistant to legendary director George Abbott. After working at the New Dramatists Guild and the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference he came to LA, and was an executive at both ABC and CBS. During this time he wrote and directed the break through indie hit Tunnel Vision, which introduced such future stars as Chevy Chase, John Candy and Al Franken. On television, he wrote Ringo, a special that starred Ringo Starr and George Harrison. He then wrote with his partner, Pat Proft, the first Police Academy movie, which spawned six sequels. He directed and co wrote Bachelor Party, which starred Tom Hanks. He followed this with the comedy Moving Violations. Real Genius, another of his scripts, was made into a successful film starring Val Kilmer, and in 1987, he produced the film Three O'Clock High. He also directed "Breaking The Rules" starring Jason Bateman and the cult classic "Surf Ninjas" with Rob Schneider and Leslie Nielsen.
Neal continues to work in both film and television as a writer, director and producer and script doctor. He has directed numerous movies of the week, pilots, and episodes of shows such as The Wonder Years, Nash Bridges, "Joan of Arcadia", and Even Stevens. Recent directing credits include Disney's Zeke and Luther and Kickin It.
In 2004, he executive produced the Academy Award nominated film Finding Neverland which starred Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.
Personal life
During the eighties, Neal married director Amy Heckerling. They had one daughter, Mollie, before divorcing in 1984.
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(2004)(Executive producer)
(1986)(Characters)
(1984)(Story)
(1987)(Characters)
(1985)(Characters)
(1990)(Writer)
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The Wedding Ringer (2015)
, 1h41Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco, Olivia Thirlby, Affion Crockett, Jorge Garcia
Roles Rabbi Steinsaltz
Rating65%
Jimmy Callahan provides best man services, through The Best Man Inc., for guys who don't have the friends necessary for a wedding. Doug Harris, a successful tax attorney, and his fiancee Gretchen Palmer are planning for their wedding day. Doug becomes frantic searching for a best man, and is referred to Jimmy's company by his party planner, Edmundo.
Hounded (2001)
, 1h32Directed by Neal Israel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films
Actors Tahj Mowry, Craig Kirkwood, Shia LaBeouf, Ed Begley Jr., Sara Paxton, Olesya Rulin
Roles Homeless Man
Rating50%
Jay Martin is a 13-year-old who is competing for a scholarship with the headmaster's son, rival classmate and potential bully Ronny Van Dusen. The headmaster, Mr. Van Dusen, confiscates Jay's presentation and leaves it lying around his office. Ronny, alone in Mr. Van Dusen's office then copies the presentation. Jay breaks into Ronny's pool house when the Van Dusens are away in order to take his presentation back. However, their show dog, Camille, discovers Jay and follows him home. Camille goes crazy and wrecks the Martin's home when she goes too long without her medication. After Jay spends hours trying to comfort the dog, Camille withstands no more and explodes. Jay's brother, Mike, comes home and finds the house a mess and Camille with a nervous breakdown. After Jay's confession about what happened, and the loss of the dog, the two try to buy time to get the dog back. Mr. Van Dusen agrees to numerous ridiculous acts just to get Camille and his father in law off his back. Reaching his limit he finally calls the police to tap into the calls he usually received from the two boys. Jay and Mike, think up a plan and frames Ronny for the whole thing. In the end, Mr. Van Dusen's father in law becomes the new headmaster of the school while he becomes a secretary, Jay gets the scholarship after the competition is reopened and Ronny is sent to the Military Academy where his instructor is none other than Mike Martin. Camille has puppies and Jay receives one of them.
Surf Ninjas (1993)
, 1h27Directed by Neal Israel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Sports films, Surfing films, Martial arts films, Children's films
Actors Ernie Reyes, Rob Schneider, Leslie Nielsen, Nicolas Cowan, Tone Loc, John Karlen
Roles Mr. Dunbar
Rating50%
Ernie Reyes, Sr. ... Zatch
Look Who's Talking Too (1990)
, 1h21Directed by Amy Heckerling
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about children, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, Elias Koteas, Twink Caplan, Gilbert Gottfried
Roles Mr. Ross
Rating47%
The movie picks up where it left off, where Mikey is expecting a sister and being the big brother. James and Mollie Ubriacco, now happily married, are preoccupied by Mikey's fear of monsters. When they get him to settle down, the two of them manage to have sex and conceive a second child; this time a girl. Mikey is excited at the prospect of being a big brother, but is also hampered by having to go through potty training. When Mollie goes into labor, her umbilical cord puts the baby in distress and the doctors have to perform a C-Section to save her life and Julie is born. She and Mikey do not get along as he imagined when they meet, and Mikey instead becomes jealous of the attention Julie is given.
Look Who's Talking (1989)
, 1h38Directed by Amy Heckerling
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about children, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Actors John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal, Abe Vigoda, Twink Caplan
Roles Mr. Ross
Rating59%
Mollie is an accountant living in New York City who has an affair with Albert, a womanizing executive who is married with two children, and becomes pregnant. During her pregnancy, Mollie and Albert keep their indiscretion secret, under the idea she was artificially inseminated, and that Albert plans to leave his wife Beth and their two children to be with her. Mollie and her friend Rona happen to catch Albert fooling around with his interior decorator Melissa and he admits he is planning on living with her after his divorce is finalized. Mollie leaves upset, and immediately goes into labor. She gets into a cab where the driver, James Ubriacco, recklessly speeds through downtown traffic in order to get her to the hospital on time, and he is inadvertently a witness to her son Mikey's birth. Mikey then begins to make commentary on his life and interacts with things through an inner voice which can also communicate with other babies.
, 1h35Directed by Larry Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon, Gerrit Graham, Macdonald Carey, Neal Israel
Roles Dr. Brewster
Rating49%
Les bébés mutants ont été placés par décision juridique sur une île déserte. Touché par le cynisme de l’exploitation des enfants par le système judiciaire et les médias, le responsable de leur isolement organise une expédition pour les libérer…
, 1h35Directed by Larry Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon, Gerrit Graham, Macdonald Carey, Neal Israel
Roles Dr. Brewster
Rating49%
This film is set years after the first two. The monstrously deformed children are now living on an island. As they reach adulthood, one of the females gives birth to a child of her own.
Moving Violations (1985)
, 1h30Directed by Neal Israel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors John Murray, Jennifer Tilly, Brian Backer, James Keach, Sally Kellerman, Nedra Volz
Roles Commuter #1
Rating56%
The film follows a group of people in Birch County, California, a fictionalized city/county which is very similar to real-life Los Angeles, who after being ticketed for numerous traffic violations and as a result lose their licenses and driving privileges (and their vehicles impounded), are ordered by Judge Nedra Henderson (Sally Kellerman) to attend a driving course program in order to get their licenses and their vehicles back. However, the assigned teacher for this course, Deputy Henry "Hank" Halik (James Keach), is also conspiring with the judge in a plan to make sure these offenders fail miserably, and at any cost, making one of the offended individuals, landscaper Dana Cannon (John Murray), very suspicious of their scheme and enlisting his fellow students to expose their plot to sell their impounded vehicles.
Johnny Dangerously (1984)
, 1h27Directed by Amy Heckerling
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle, Griffin Dunne
Roles Dr. Zilman
Rating64%
1935. A pet shop owner catches a young boy shoplifting a puppy. To discourage the kid from a life of crime, the owner tells a story.
Tunnel Vision (1976)
, 1h10Directed by Neal Israel
Genres Comedy
Actors Roger Bowen, Chevy Chase, John Candy, Howard Hesseman, Joe Flaherty, Laraine Newman
Roles Rabbi Rabinowitz / Hippie #2
Rating50%
The plot of the movie revolves around a new television network called TunnelVision which is notably free of censorship and has thus become the most-watched channel in television history. In the then-future year of 1985, the president of TunnelVision (Proctor) is under Senate investigation led by a Senator (Hesseman) who wishes to shut down the channel due to its perceived widespread negative effects on the population of the United States. The bulk of the movie consists of commercials, shorts, and trailers for fictional movies that are usually not connected to one another. These are being shown during a Congressional Oversight Committee hearing as a representative day of TunnelVision programming. At the end of the film, the committee finds in favor of TunnelVision, but the network president is shot and killed by a crazed French chef who had been a running gag throughout the segments.
Director
, 1h40Directed by Neal Israel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Autumn Reeser, Chad Doreck, Blake Foster, Ashley Eckstein
Rating35%
The film begins with Bobby finding a winning lottery ticket but Mike insists that it be returned to the rightful owner. Mike then invites people to the house to prove they are the owner but none are able to answer correctly what the original wrote on the back of the ticket. A local newscaster hears the story and Mike agrees to an interview in hopes of finding the original owner.
Holiday Reunion (2003)
Directed by Neal Israel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bryan Cranston, Judge Reinhold, Penelope Ann Miller, Hallie Todd, Meghan Ory, Calum Worthy
Rating34%
Hounded (2001)
, 1h32Directed by Neal Israel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films
Actors Tahj Mowry, Craig Kirkwood, Shia LaBeouf, Ed Begley Jr., Sara Paxton, Olesya Rulin
Rating50%
Jay Martin is a 13-year-old who is competing for a scholarship with the headmaster's son, rival classmate and potential bully Ronny Van Dusen. The headmaster, Mr. Van Dusen, confiscates Jay's presentation and leaves it lying around his office. Ronny, alone in Mr. Van Dusen's office then copies the presentation. Jay breaks into Ronny's pool house when the Van Dusens are away in order to take his presentation back. However, their show dog, Camille, discovers Jay and follows him home. Camille goes crazy and wrecks the Martin's home when she goes too long without her medication. After Jay spends hours trying to comfort the dog, Camille withstands no more and explodes. Jay's brother, Mike, comes home and finds the house a mess and Camille with a nervous breakdown. After Jay's confession about what happened, and the loss of the dog, the two try to buy time to get the dog back. Mr. Van Dusen agrees to numerous ridiculous acts just to get Camille and his father in law off his back. Reaching his limit he finally calls the police to tap into the calls he usually received from the two boys. Jay and Mike, think up a plan and frames Ronny for the whole thing. In the end, Mr. Van Dusen's father in law becomes the new headmaster of the school while he becomes a secretary, Jay gets the scholarship after the competition is reopened and Ronny is sent to the Military Academy where his instructor is none other than Mike Martin. Camille has puppies and Jay receives one of them.
The Poof Point (2001)
, 1h30Directed by Neal Israel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Tahj Mowry, Raquel Lee, Dawnn Lewis, Mark Curry (acteur américain), Olesya Rulin, Haley McCormick
Rating45%
Two scientists invent a time machine. A critical part (the "vector modulator") falls out of the time machine before they get into it to test it. Nothing seems to happen at first, but when they wake up the next day they are regressing in age (mentally, not physically). Their kids, Marie (Raquel Lee) and Eddie (Tahj Mowry) seem to notice something strange is going on, judging by their behavior. Soon enough, the children realize that it is the machine that has changed their parents. The parents gradually get younger and the kids notice that the fish that their parents were experimenting on earlier seemed to just disappear after growing younger in a "poof" of sorts. The point at which something ceases to exist thus becomes known as the "poof point". The kids know they have to get the parents in the machine and reverse the effect some way before their parents, too, just "poof" away.
Dad's Week Off (1997)
, 1h35Directed by Neal Israel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Henry Winkler, Olivia D'Abo, Richard Jeni, Justin Louis, Ken Pogue, Wendel Meldrum
Rating43%
A computer salesman charged with marketing a tiny computer that no one can operate, faces hypertension when he realizes that there is no way to sell the product and he is likely to lose his job. So he can get some rest, his wife offers to take their two kid's camping for a week. When his fellow salesman and best friend is fired and thrown out of his house by his wife, he moves in and immediately starts unending parties, which ultimately ends up the house on fire and Winkler arrested on multiple charges. In between, in a drug-induced stupor, he gets mixed up with a ditzy blonde who wants to marry him, and rescue her child from being raised by her parents.