Gerald R. Molen

Gerald R. "Jerry" Molen (born January 6, 1935 in Great Falls , Montana ) is an American film producer and film actor .

Short biography

Molen is a longtime partner of Steven Spielberg , who started working in film in the 1970s as a transportation coordinator. In the 1980s, was Molen manager among others, The Postman Always Rings Twice , Tootsie and The Color Purple . The latter film was Molen's first collaboration with Spielberg. Molen made his producer debut in 1991 in Hook . In the years to come he co-produced many other Spielberg films, including Jurassic Park , Schindler's List , Forgotten World: Jurassic Park and Minority Report .

He also appeared in a number of Spielberg films in small supporting roles, including Jurassic Park , Amistad and most recently Catch Me If You Can . Here, however, he mostly used the name Jerry Molen . Other films in which Molen was mostly involved as executive producer , however, were Rain Man , Days of Thunder and Twister .

Molen produced the highly criticized 2016 documentaries : Obama's America (2012), America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014), Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016) and Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? (2018) by Republican and conspiracy theorist Dinesh D'Souza . For Hillary's America , Molen received the Golden Raspberry for Worst Film in 2017 .

1987: The Miracle on 8th Street (Associate Producer)
1988: Rain Man (co-producer)
1990: Days of Thunder (Executive Producer)
1991: Hook (producer)
1993: Jurassic Park (producer)
1993: Schindler's List (producer)
1994: Flintstones - The Feuerstein Family (Executive Producer)
1995: Casper (Executive Producer)
1996: Twister (Executive Producer)
1996: The Great Power Outage - A City in a State of Emergency (Executive Producer)
1997: Forgotten World: Jurassic Park (producer)
2001: The Other Side of Heaven (producer)
2002: Minority Report (producer)
2016: Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (Producer)
2018: Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? (Producer)

In addition to a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award , both of which he received in 1994, he and Steven Spielberg and Branko Lustig won an Oscar for Schindler's List at the 1994 Academy Awards .

personal data
SURNAME	Molen, Gerald R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Molen, Jerry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American film producer and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 6, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Great Falls , Montana