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Gary Sherman
Director, Writer, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1945 (80 years)
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.
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.
Known For
Gary Sherman Filmography
| 2011 | The First 48: Missing Persons (TV Series) |
| 2006 | |
| 1998 | Wind on Water (TV Series) |
| 1996 | Poltergeist: The Legacy (TV Series) |
| 1993 | Missing Persons (TV Series) |
| 1991 | |
| 1990 | |
| 1990 | |
| 1988 | |
| 1987 | Sable (TV Series) |
| 1986 | |
| 1982 | |
| 1982 | |
| 1981 | |
| 1972 |
| 1998 | First Wave (TV Series) |
| 1996 | Poltergeist: The Legacy (TV Series) |
| 1990 | |
| 1990 | |
| 1989 | |
| 1988 | Poltergeist III · as Screenplay |
| 1987 | Sable (TV Series) |
| 1986 | |
| 1982 | |
| 1982 | |
| 1979 | Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women · as Screenplay |
| 2023 | Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | |
| 2002 | The Glow · as Executive Producer |
| 1993 | Missing Persons (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1991 | |
| 1990 | |
| 1990 | After the Shock · as Executive Producer |
| 1988 | Poltergeist III · as Executive Producer |
| 1987 | Sable (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2020 | Tales of the Uncanny · as Self |
| 2020 | Cursed Films (TV Series) · as Self - Director, Poltergeist Iii |
| 2019 | Memory: The Origins of Alien · as Self |
| 2011 | The First 48: Missing Persons (TV Series) · as Field Producer |
| 2002 | The Glow · as Teleplay |
| 1996 | Poltergeist: The Legacy (TV Series) · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 1993 | Missing Persons (TV Series) · as Created By |
| 1980 | Phobia · as Story |
| 1972 | Death Line · as Original Story |