Highest rated movie: Dead & Buried (1981)
Lowest rated movie: Poltergeist III (1988)
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Movies from this director have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average rating of 56%.
Dead & Buried is Gary Sherman's highest rated movie, with a score of 65% based on 147 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Gary Sherman is Poltergeist III, with a score of 43% based on 240 reviews.
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.
Gary Sherman has directed films starring Hugh Gillin, Tom Skerritt, Barry Corbin and Jeffrey Tambor.
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