Gilbert Adler

Gilbert Adler (born in New York City, February 14, 1946) 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," a biopic about would-be Hitler assassin Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, starring Tom Cruise.

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 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 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