Gilbert Adler (born in
New York City
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, February 14, 1946) is an American
film producer
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who has collaborated with several notable filmmakers including
Richard Donner
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,
Brian De Palma
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,
Walter Hill
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,
Todd Phillips
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, and
Bryan Singer
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.
In 1999, Adler -- along with
Robert Zemeckis and
Joel Silver
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Life and career
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-- formed
Dark Castle Entertainment
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, a film production label formerly affiliated with
Warner Bros
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.
Career
Adler's career spans several decades, film genres, and jobs. He began as a producer and helped shepherd Brian De Palma's low-budget family comedy feature ''Home Movies'' to the screen. The next few years weren't particularly auspicious; Adler continued working in the modest-budget sphere. In 1985 he produced the
Stephen Gyllenhaal
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thriller ''Certain Fury,'' and the military comedy ''Basic Training''. Over the next decade Adler found more work as he branched out into other film jobs and also found work in TV. For example, in addition to producing over 40 episodes of the horror anthology ''Freddy's Nightmares'' (1998), he directed one and wrote four of the episodes. He repeated this trifecta soon afterwards in a new job, the similar ''Tales From the Crypt'' (1991). In 1998, Adler directed one episode of the teen witch series ''Charmed,'' and for the re-imagining of the tropics-set drama ''Fantasy Island''. It is in movies that Alder generally has concentrated his efforts, however. Working often, he's received producer credit on a raft of features, including the '06 superhero reboot "Superman Returns" and "Valkyrie," a biopic about would-be Hitler assassin Colonel
Claus von Stauffenberg
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, starring
Tom Cruise
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.
Filmography
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
Film
;As writer
;As director
;As an actor
Television
;As writer
;As director
;Miscellaneous crew
;As an actor
;Second unit director or assistant director
References
External links
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Living people
American film producers
1946 births
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