Edgar J. Scherick
Edgar J. Scherick (born October 16, 1924 in New York City , New York , † December 2, 2002 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film producer .
Life
Scherick studied at Harvard and was brought in a few years after the Second World War as an assistant director for radio and television. In the 1950s he worked for the New York advertising agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample. With his agency he brought the concept of Wide World of Sports into the US television program of the ABC in 1961 , of which Scherick later became vice president. In this function, Scherick was busy designing the television program. He later became president of the ABC subsidiary Palomar Pictures before he went independent as a film producer. While he worked for ABC / Palomar mainly as an executive producer, this changed when he founded his own production company, which has been making films since 1976.
Scherick's oeuvre includes cinema and television films of the most diverse genres: he produced comedies such as dramas, thrillers such as adaptations of novels , animal films such as retelling of real events (... that know no mercy) . The last film for which Scherick was named as a producer was made after his death: It was the remake of the science fiction thriller The Women of Stepford , which he produced in England in 1974. Scherick, who was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, received a Primetime Emmy Award in 1984 for documenting He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin ' a children's dance school . At the PGA Awards 1997 Edgar J. Scherick was honored for his life's work.
Filmography
Line producer or film producer
- 1968: Liebling (For Love of Ivy)
- 1968: The Birthday Party
- 1969: My friend the otter
- 1969: Woody, the unlucky fellow (anonymous)
- 1970: Jenny
- 1970: Homer
- 1971: Nightfall When Night Calls
- 1972: Doberkiller (To Kill a Clown)
- 1972: Murder with minor mistakes (Sleuth)
- 1972: Changing horses on their wedding night (The Heartbreak Kid)
- 1973: Gordon's Revenge (Gordon's War)
- 1974: Ann in Blue
- 1974: The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 stops the subway 123's death ride
- 1975: The Stepford wives
- 1976: ... who know no mercy (Raid on Entebbe)
- 1977: I never promised you a rose garden
- 1978: Zuma Beach
- 1979: Der Ringer (The American Success Company)
- 1980: Revenge of the Stepford Wives
- 1982: You or Both (Shoot the Moon)
- 1982: White Dog (White Dog)
- 1983: He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin '
- 1983: Young and Reckless (Reckless)
- 1985: Three of them flee
- 1986: The High Price of Passion
- 1986: The Stepford Children
- 1987: Hands of a Stranger
- 1987: Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 1988: A Fatal Mistake (Unholy Matrimony)
- 1990: Spymaker
- 1990: The Phantom of the Opera
- 1990: The pleasure of the beautiful rose
- 1991: fever of evil (Fever)
- 1991: Doctor under suspicion (The Rape of Doctor Willis)
- 1991: Black Death (Quiet Killer)
- 1992: Nightmare in the Daylight
- 1993: Betrayed by Love
- 1994: A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story
- 1994: Once a Cowboy, Always a Cowboy (The Good Old Boys)
- 1995: Tyson
- 1996: We the Jury
- 1998: The Wall - Farewell to heroism (The Wall)
- 2001: Path to War - Decision in the White House (Path to War)
- 2004: The Stepford Wives
literature
- Tracy Stevens: International Motion Picture Almanac 2001. Edit. Dir. Quigley Publishing Co., La Jolla (Cal.) 2001. p. 369
Web links
- Edgar J. Scherick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scherick, Edgar J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 2002 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |