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Jerry Belson
Highest Rated: 83% Modern Romance (1981)
Lowest Rated: 17% For Keeps (1988)
Birthday: Jul 8, 1938
Birthplace: El Centro, California, USA
Emmy-winning TV writer ("The Dick Van Dyke Show") and producer ("The Odd Couple") who crossed over to film in 1968, writing and producing the Debbie Reynolds vehicle "How Sweet it Is!" (1968) with partner Garry Marshall. Perhaps his finest work as a screenwriter came with "Smile" (1975), a marvelously pointed satire of the California beauty pageant scene.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68% | 58% | Always | Screenwriter | - | 1989 |
| 17% | 71% | For Keeps | Producer | $14.7M | 1988 |
| 22% | 34% | Surrender |
Director, Screenwriter |
$5.4M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 72% | Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again | Director | - | 1982 |
| 33% | 52% | Student Bodies | The Breather (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 83% | 71% | Modern Romance | Jerry (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 25% | 43% | Smokey and the Bandit II | Screenwriter | - | 1980 |
| 56% | 50% | The End | Screenwriter | - | 1978 |
| 57% | 51% | Fun With Dick and Jane | Screenwriter | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | Evil Roy Slade |
Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1972 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The New Odd Couple | Writer | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laverne & Shirley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Odd Couple |
Director, Writer |
1970-1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Director | 1972-1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Writer | 1964-1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Writer | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Joey Bishop Show | Writer | 1964-1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Writer | 1964 |