Edgar J. Scherick

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

Morte : 2002-12-02

Filmes

Mulheres Perfeitas
Producer
Uma mulher se muda para o subúrbio de Stepford com o marido e começa a suspeitar que tem alguma coisa muito errada com as outras esposas do bairro.
Bastidores da Guerra
Executive Producer
Filme tem como foco o presidente americano Lyndon B. Johnson, cujo governo ficou marcado pela Guerra do Vietnã, na década de 60.
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.
Os Maridos de Stepford
Executive Producer
Something sinister is going on in the town of Stepford, and this time the men should watch their backs.
Tyson, o Mito
Executive Producer
Aos 13 anos, Mike Tyson já colecionava delitos e conhecia a cruel realidade dos reformatórios. Mas ao conhecer Cus D'Amato e Don King, o garoto de Brooklyn fadado ao fracasso se transforma em um campeão mundial. Logo ele conhece a fama, sucesso e fortuna. Tudo parecia um sonho até os acontecimentos que o colocariam atrás das grades mais uma vez.
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.
As Noites de 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.
Crime ou Loucura
Howard Norton
Um jovem casal emigra da Polonia para os EUA, mas as coisas não vão tão bem como eles imaginavam.
A Polícia de Hitler: Um Retrato do Mal
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
História real de duas vidas, duas prisões. A primeira é do simpático Ed, que junto com seu irmão Jack espera por seu terrível destino. A outra é Kate, que além de conviver com as grades da prisão, também vive com as grades de sua própria vida. O amor entre eles transforma-se em poder para romper as barreiras da prisão — e surge uma esperança ruma à liberdade.
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.
O Rei da Comédia
Wilson Crockett
Um humorista com dificuldades aposta o futuro incerto num esquema descabido para entrar à força no mundo televisão, raptando Jerry Langford, um conceituado apresentador de talk show popular.
Cão Branco
Executive Producer
A jovem aspirante a atriz Julie Sawyer encontra um cão branco perdido na rua e resolve adotá-lo. No entanto, aos poucos ela começa a notar um comportamento estranho no cachorro e percebe que se trata de um animal treinado a vida toda para atacar pessoas negras. Diante desse comportamento racista do cachorro, Julie resolve entregar o animal aos cuidados de Keys, um adestrador, ele próprio negro, para tentar reeducar o animal.
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.
Dançando como Loucos
Producer
Famosa por ser uma grande diretora de filmes documentários, Barbara Gordon (Jill Clayburgh) parece ser uma pessoa muito bem sucedida. No entanto, ela controla seu estresse e ansiedade com anti-depressivos, sobretudo o Valium. Ela finalmente admite seu vício narcótico e luta para se livrar dele e viver tranquilamente sem a ajuda de drogas.
A Chama Que Não Se Apaga
Executive Producer
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
A Vingança das Esposas de Stepford
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.
Resgate Fantástico
Producer
A operação de resgate dos passageiros e tripulantes de um avião sequestrado por palestinos. Com a velada simpatia do ditador africano Idi Amin Dada, os terroristas permanecem em Uganda, exigindo a libertação de 53 palestinos presos pelos israelenses em troca dos reféns. Baseado em fatos reais.
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.
Esposas em Conflito
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.
O Sequestro do Metrô
Producer
Em um dia aparentemente comum, o policial Zach Garber, responsável pela segurança no metrô de Nova York, é surpreendido pelo sequestro da composição Pelham 1:23 PM por um bando misterioso. Os quatro criminosos, liderados por Blue e fortemente armados, exigem US$ 1 milhão para libertar os dezessete reféns com vida. Comandando a negociação, Garber tem uma hora para encontrar uma solução para o impasse. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
A Guerra De Um Homem
Executive Producer
Quatro veteranos do Vietnã declaram guerra aos traficantes e cafetões do Harlem.
Corações em Alta
Producer
Três dias depois da sua lua-de-mel em Miami, um judeu de Nova York chamado Lenny encontra uma linda e alta mulher loira chamada Kelly. Ele decide ficar com ela no lugar de sua esposa Lila.
Trama Diabólica
Executive Producer
Um cabeleleiro e um escritor de histórias de mistérios têm algo em comum: a mesma mulher. Enquanto o primeiro é um amante apaixonado, que não sabe como sustentar as extravagâncias de sua paixão, o segundo é um marido que está cansado dela e pretende ficar com a amante. O marido propõe ao amante da sua mulher que este roube sua jóias e as venda para um receptador de confiança. O marido não sofreria prejuízo, pois as jóias estão no seguro, mas existe um problema: um tenta ludibriar o outro em um duelo de inteligência.
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.
Silêncio Mortal
Executive Producer
Durante o belo, porém gelado inverno da Nova Inglaterra, uma família em uma fazenda isolada, passa por uam terrível experiência quando misteriosos telefonemas produzem arrepios e muita ansiedade. Michael Douglas interpreta um hipnotizador psicopata provocando situações que se sucedem levando todos ao limite da loucura até um final inesperado e explosivo.
Silêncio Mortal
Producer
Durante o belo, porém gelado inverno da Nova Inglaterra, uma família em uma fazenda isolada, passa por uam terrível experiência quando misteriosos telefonemas produzem arrepios e muita ansiedade. Michael Douglas interpreta um hipnotizador psicopata provocando situações que se sucedem levando todos ao limite da loucura até um final inesperado e explosivo.
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.
Um Assaltante Bem Trapalhão
Executive Producer
A história de Virgil Starkwell, um assaltante medíocre, é contada com pompas de uma lenda moderna, como uma paródia de Butch Cassidy e Sundance Kid ou Jesse James, num relato pseudo biográfico em forma de documentário sensacionalista. Ele rouba chicletes com sucesso quando garoto, mas quando resolve evoluir, nada dá certo. Adulto e desastrado, não consegue assaltar nenhum banco. É preso várias vezes e se apaixona por Louise, ao tentar roubá-la. Mas Virgil não desiste do crime por excesso de estupidez, pois sua vida é um interminável entra-e-sai de prisões. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
A Lontra Travessa
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.
Trágico Aniversário
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.