Gary Sherman

Known for DirectingBorn 1945-08-28 (age 80)Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gary Sherman (born August 28, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Murderous Vision

Tales of the Uncanny

First Wave

39: A Film by Carroll McKane

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

Memory: The Origins of Alien

After the Shock

Missing Persons

Dead & Buried

Fire and Rain

Vice Squad

Mysterious Two

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Sable

Death Line

Lisa

The Glow

Poltergeist III

Phobia

Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women

She Was Here

The Streets