Gary Sherman
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.
| Film | Credit |
|---|---|
 She Was Here2026 · Self | Self |
 Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story2022 · Self | Self |
 Tales of the Uncanny2020 · Self | Self |
 Memory: The Origins of Alien2019 · Self | Self |
 39: A Film by Carroll McKane2006 · Director | Director |
 Murderous Vision1991 · Director, Producer | Director, Producer |
 Fire and Rain1990 · Writer | Writer |
 After the Shock1990 · Director, Writer | Director, Writer |
 Lisa1990 · Director, Writer, Producer | Director, Writer, Producer |
 Poltergeist III1988 · Director, Screenplay | Director, Screenplay |
 Wanted: Dead or Alive1987 · Director, Writer | Director, Writer |
| TThe Streets1984 · Director, Writer | Director, Writer |
 Mysterious Two1982 · Director, Writer | Director, Writer |
 Vice Squad1982 · Director | Director |
 Dead & Buried1981 · Director | Director |
 Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women1979 · Screenplay | Screenplay |
 Death Line1972 · Director | Director |