David Gerber

Birth : 1923-07-25,

Death : 2010-01-02

Movies

Flight 93
Executive Producer
Flight 93 is a 2006 made-for-TV film, directed by Peter Markle, which chronicles the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks. It premiered January 30, 2006 on the A&E Network and was re-broadcast several times throughout 2006. The film focused heavily on eight passengers, namely Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Lauren Grandcolas, Donald Greene, Nicole Miller, and Honor Elizabeth Wainio. It features small appearances from many other passengers, namely Donald Peterson and his wife, Jean, and also from flight attendant Sandra Bradshaw.
The Lost Battalion
Producer
Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
Nothing Lasts Forever
Executive Producer
Story of the personal lives and careers of three female doctors, from different backgrounds and walks of life, who work at a San Francisco county hospital.
George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation
Executive Producer
The first U.S. president (Barry Bostwick) and his wife (Patty Duke) endure two terms of turmoil from 1789 to 1797.
Night of the Pencils
Rusito
The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.
The Neighborhood
Executive Producer
A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.
Elvis and the Beauty Queen
Executive Producer
Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.
Terror Among Us
Executive Producer
A police sergeant and a parole officer endeavor to stop a rapist-on-parole before he can follow through his threats on five women whom testifed against him years earlier.
The Night the City Screamed
Executive Producer
A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror.
Once Upon a Spy
Executive Producer
Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker and becomes a reluctant hero thanks to a number of exploits with villainous Christopher Lee and his army of lethal blue-eyed blonde women.
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
Executive Producer
Power
Executive Producer
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.
The Billion Dollar Threat
Executive Producer
A James Bondish superspy is assigned to thwart the devious plans of a master agent who is threatening to destroy the planet unless he is paid one billion dollars within 48 hours.
Pleasure Cove
Executive Producer
The story of a posh seaside vacation resort, and the lives and adventures of its guests and staff.
The Courage and the Passion
Executive Producer
The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."
To Kill a Cop
Executive Producer
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.
Doctors' Private Lives
Executive Producer
Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.
A Killing Affair
Executive Producer
A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
The Magnificent Magical Magnet of Santa Mesa
Executive Producer
An inventor develops a force field who his greedy boss plans to steal.
Cover Girls
Executive Producer
Two beautiful fashion models work undercover as secret agents.
The Quest
Executive Producer
Eight years ago, Cheyenne Indians attacked the Baudine Family wagon and captured Morgan (Kurt Russell), whom they renamed Two Persons. Now Two Persons, raised in the ways of the Indians, has been reunited with his brother Quentin (Tim Matheson), a doctor and a stranger to frontier ways. Together the brothers set out in search of their sister Patricia, who was also captured and who Two Persons believes is still alive.
The Quest: The Longest Drive
Executive Producer
To save an old friend's ranch, the Beaudine brothers round up a gang of misfits to drive a huge herd to market.
Cop on the Beat
Executive Producer
An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1975-76 series. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time — and that, too, was based on a Joseph Wambaugh creation. Also known as "The Return of Joe Forrester."
Nakia
Executive Producer
An American Indian deputy sheriff is caught in the middle of a community dispute when the tribe tries to save an historic mission from a housing developer. This TV pilot film was an ABC Movie of the Week and later became a TV series.
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Executive Producer
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders.
Big John Morrison
Producer
Detectives Calabrese and Jameson become emotionally involved in a robbery/homicide/rape crime spree when a friend becomes a victim.
Jarrett
Executive Producer
A private investigator specializing in fine arts tries to track down some missing rare Biblical scrolls TV Drama - Glenn Ford, Anthony Quayle, Forrest Tucker
Incident on a Dark Street
Executive Producer
A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.
Prudence and the Chief
Producer
A young widow takes her two children and mother and opens a school in the untamed West and immediately comes into conflict with the local Indians
The Prairie
Gabe Bush
The Prairie is set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Hoping to find their destiny in the new territory, the Bush Family heads southward in a covered wagon. Sharing the family's numerous dangers and hardships are Ellen Wade (Lenore Aubert), sole survivor of an Indian attack, and army mapmaker Paul Hover (Alan Baxter). Cousins Abiram (Russ Vincent) and Asa (Jack Mitchum) duke it out over Ellen's affections