Gilbert Adler

Gilbert Adler (born in New York City, February 14, 1946)^[1] is an American film producer who has collaborated with several notable filmmakers including Richard Donner, Brian De Palma, Walter Hill, Todd Phillips, and Bryan Singer.

In 1999, Adler—along with Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver—formed Dark Castle Entertainment, a film production label formerly affiliated with Warner Bros.

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 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,"^[2] a biopic about would-be Hitler assassin Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, starring Tom Cruise.^[3]

Filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year	Film	Credit
1979	Home Movies
1985	Certain Fury
	Basic Training
1995	Demon Knight
1996	Bordello of Blood
1997	Double Tap
1999	House on Haunted Hill
2001	Thirteen Ghosts
2002	Ghost Ship
2004	Starsky & Hutch	Executive producer
2005	Constantine	Executive producer
2006	Superman Returns
2008	Valkyrie
2010	Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
2018	Evil Nature	Executive producer
2021	Buckley's Chance
TBA	Mirkwood	Executive producer
	Untitled Joe Louis Project

As writer

Year	Film
1992	Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
1996	Bordello of Blood

As director

Year	Film
1996	Bordello of Blood

As an actor

Year	Film	Role
1985	Basic Training	Security Guard

Television

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
1987	The Hitchhiker
1988−90	Freddy's Nightmares
1990	Hollywood Dog		Television film
1995	W.E.I.R.D. World	Co-executive producer	Television film
1991−96	Tales from the Crypt
1997	Perversions of Science
1999−2000	The Strip	Co-executive producer
2014	Intelligence
2019	Then Again with Herbie J Pilato	Executive producer
TBA	The 'E' Division	Executive producer

As writer

Year	Title	Notes
1988−90	Freddy's Nightmares
1991	Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories
1995	W.E.I.R.D. World	Television film
1991−96	Tales from the Crypt
1997	Perversions of Science

As director

Year	Title
1990	Freddy's Nightmares
1992−93	Tales from the Crypt
1997	Perversions of Science
1998	Fantasy Island
	Charmed

Miscellaneous crew

Year	Title	Role
1987	Vietnam War Story	Executive in charge of production for HBO
1994	Tales from the Crypt	Crypt keeper sequences director

As an actor

Year	Title	Role
1987	The Hitchhiker	Phil Murgo
1989	Freddy's Nightmares	Max's Dad

Second unit director or assistant director

Year	Title	Role
1994	Tales from the Crypt	Crypt keeper sequences director