Edgar J. Scherick

Birth : 1924-10-16, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 2002-12-02

Movies

The Stepford Wives
Producer
What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.
Path to War
Executive Producer
A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside the LBJ White House leading up to and during the Vietnam War.
A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'
Self (archive footage)
Documentary about the making of Martin Scorsese's story of a man willing to go to any length for a shot at fame.
The Stepford Life
Himself
A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).
The Wall
Executive Producer
The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects the living with the dead and are left as either memorials or to heal the wounds of war.
The Stepford Husbands
Executive Producer
Something sinister is going on in the town of Stepford, and this time the men should watch their backs.
Tyson
Executive Producer
The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of "Heavyweight Champion of the World", and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulent life moves quickly, never focusing for long on anything in particular.
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning
McLaughlin
In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good detective work and clues left at the crime scenes by the psychopathic killer, they are able to deduce who the killer's next victim will be. A tense chase ensues as they try to prevent him from continuing his bloody rampage
The Good Old Boys
Executive Producer
An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.
A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story
Executive Producer
The story of Hazel Brannon Smith, a Southern newspaper publisher who risked the loss of everything she loved by defying the bigotry of her neighbors in the 1950s.
Betrayed by Love
Executive Producer
An FBI agent and his pretty informant become lovers, which leads to tragedy.
Rambling Rose
Executive Producer
Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Executive Producer
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies.
Anything to Survive
Executive Producer
A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse.
Unholy Matrimony
Executive Producer
He's after a man who married for money. Insurance money.
Lovers, Partners & Spies
Executive Producer
Retired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to help him catch a serial killer.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Executive Producer
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
The Stepford Children
Executive Producer
Steven and Laura Harding, along with their kids David and Mary, have moved to the quiet community of Stepford. Steven joins the men's club, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This time, they have begun to turn their out of control teens into robots as well. Once they are assimilated, they are obedient, homework loving, big band dancing droids. Laura, David, and Mary stumble onto this mystery, and they must avoid Steven's plans to turn them into robots.
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Howard Norton
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.
Hitler's SS : Portrait In Evil
Executive Producer
The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
Mrs. Soffel
Producer
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.
Reckless
Producer
Rebellious footballer Johnny, falls for cheerleader Tracy. They come from opposite backgrounds; she's from a comfortable well off family, he is poor and broken. Tracy already has a boyfriend but he acts like a jerk, so Johnny has to win Tracy's heart - something she seems reluctant to let him do.
The King of Comedy
Wilson Crockett
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
White Dog
Executive Producer
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Executive Producer
A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
Producer
An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.
Shoot the Moon
Executive Producer
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Revenge of the Stepford Wives
Executive Producer
A TV reporter arrives in the quiet town of Stepford to launch an investigation into why the town has the lowest divorce and crime rates in America. However, she begins to notice some bizarre behavior in the women of the town, discovering that Stepford is not as clean-cut as it seems.
The Seduction of Miss Leona
Executive Producer
An unmarried, reclusive college teacher is torn between a married maintenance man who has been repairing her house and her former professor and lover.
The American Success Company
Producer
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.
Mother and Daughter: The Loving War
Executive Producer
A love-hate relationship among three generations of women, spanning 30 years.
An American Christmas Carol
Executive Producer
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
Executive Producer
The wife of a paralytic becomes involved in an extra-marital affair, with his permission.
Zuma Beach
Executive Producer
A fading rock singer goes to the beach to get away from it all and winds up getting involved in the lives of the teenage beachgoers.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Producer
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Panic in Echo Park
Producer
A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Raid on Entebbe
Producer
Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was Lt. Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu..
The Silence
Executive Producer
A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school's code of honor.
The Stepford Wives
Producer
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Law and Disorder
Executive Producer
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Producer
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Gordon's War
Executive Producer
A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriated, he gathers three of his ex-GI buddies and they lay out plans to fight the drug dealers.
The Heartbreak Kid
Producer
Three days into his Miami honeymoon, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly instead.
Sleuth
Executive Producer
A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife's lover – but things aren't exactly as they seem.
The Darwin Adventure
Executive Producer
The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.
To Kill A Clown
Executive Producer
A young hippie couple rent a secluded cabin on the beach in an attempt to re-connect with each other and save their marriage. Unfortunately, the man they rented the cabin from is a military-brat sociopath with two dogs more vicious than his temper.
When Michael Calls
Executive Producer
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
When Michael Calls
Producer
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
Executive Producer
A famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady and illegal purposes.
Jenny
Producer
An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance between the two.
Take the Money and Run
Executive Producer
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
Ring of Bright Water
Executive Producer
Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.
The Birthday Party
Executive Producer
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
For Love of Ivy
Producer
A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a change and begins searching for a man to wine and dine her, but who won't marry her, thinking that this will distract her from her plans. The man he finds doesn't entirely cooperate.