Jerry Jameson
Highest Rated: 40% Airport '77 (1977)
Lowest Rated: 27% Captive (2015)
Birthday: Nov 26, 1934
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
If catastrophe struck and it had a large ensemble cast, Jerry Jameson was probably responsible. From triple-digit temperatures to killer comets, scenarios for catastrophe are virtually inexhaustible -- and the director proved it. Jameson made his feature directing debut with "Brute Corps" (1972), a hippies-vs.-soldiers exploitation pic. He soon graduated to filming episodes of the crime shows "The Mod Squad" and "Canon." Jameson's flood of low-rent Irwin Allen productions was released with the 1974 broadcast of "Heat Wave!." But that wasn't all. Also released in 1974 were the made-for-TV movies "The Elevator" (or: "Lifeboat" in an office building), "Hurricane," and "Terror on the 40th Floor" -- a shameless rip-off of "The Towering Inferno," which itself was a rip-off of "The Poseidon Adventure." Jameson's pièce de résistance arrived with the theatrically released "Airport '77," better known as the disaster flick that supplied the raw material for the spoof "Airplane!" Next year's "Superdome" -- in which a roaming killer adds much excitement to the Super Bowl -- was later lampooned in "Mystery Science Theater 3000."
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Jerry Jameson
Filmography
Movies
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27% |
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Captive |
Director, Producer |
$2.6M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Safe Harbor | Director | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Last Flight Out | Director | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Phone: Checkmate | Director | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Phone: Manhunt | Director | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Running Red | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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Land of the Free | Director | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gone in a Heartbeat | Director | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice | Director | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Bonanza: The Return | Director | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Gunsmoke: The Long Ride | Director | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Gunsmoke: To the Last Man | Director | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | B.L. Stryker: Blind Chess | Director | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terror on Highway 91 | Director | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fire and Rain | Director | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Spider | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Police Plaza | Director | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stormin' Home | Director | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last of the Great Survivors | Director | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cowboy and the Ballerina | Director | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Starflight One | Director | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Girl for Hire | Director | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cowboy | Director | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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Hotline | Director | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stand by Your Man | Director | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet |
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High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Killing at Hell's Gate | Director | - | 1980 |
38% |
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Raise the Titanic | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Muerte en la Puerta del Infierno | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Superdome | Director | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gun | Director | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
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A Fire in the Sky | Director | - | 1978 |
40% |
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Airport '77 | Director | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Invasion of Johnson County | Director | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Call of the Wild | Director | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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The Deadly Tower | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lives of Jenny Dolan | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret Night Caller | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terror on the 40th Floor | Director | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hurricane | Director | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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The Bat People | Director | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Elevator | Director | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heatwave! | Director | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hec Ramsey | Director | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brute Corps | Director | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dirt Gang | Director | - | 1971 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walker, Texas Ranger | Director | 1994 1998-2000 |
33% | No Score Yet | The Magnificent Seven | Director | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Moloney | Director | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JAG | Director | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Quinn | Director | 1995-1996 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Director | 1990-1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake and the Fatman | Director | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | Director | 1985-1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McCloud | Director | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Six Million Dollar Man | Director | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ironside | Director | 1973-1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rookies | Director | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Director | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dan August | Director | 1971 |