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Gerald T. Olson is a Actor, Associate Producer, Second Unit Director and Second Unit American

Gerald T. Olson

Gerald T. Olson
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Nationality USA

Gerald T. Olson is a film producer best known for films such as House Party, Bloody Birthday and Dumb & Dumber. The San Francisco State alum relocated to Los Angeles, and eventually became director of production at HBO.

Olson has been involved with several other projects, including Repo Man starring Emilio Estevez, The Hidden starring Kyle MacLachlan, Rapid Fire starring Brandon Lee and Peter Berg's The Rundown starring Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken and Rosario Dawson.

Best films

Dumb and Dumber (1994)
(Unit Production Manager)
The Rundown (2003)
(Unit Production Manager)
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
(Associate Producer)

Usually with

Don Shanks
Don Shanks
(1 films)
Lin Shaye
Lin Shaye
(4 films)
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Filmography of Gerald T. Olson (19 films)

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Shredderman Rules, 1h33
Directed by Savage Steve Holland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Devon Werkheiser, Daniel Roebuck, Andrew Caldwell, Tim Meadows, Curtis Armstrong, Dave Coulier
Roles Producer
Rating49% 2.4595552.4595552.4595552.4595552.459555
Devon Werkheiser plays Nolan Byrd, a shy 9th grader who, along with many other kids, is bullied by Bubba Bixby (Andrew Caldwell) When his teacher, Mr. Green (Tim Meadows) announces that he wants his class to do a multimedia project, Nolan decides to do his project on Bubba. Nolan goes undercover, spies on Bubba, films him bullying kids at his school, and airs it on his new website www.shreddermanrules.com.
The Rundown, 1h44
Directed by Peter Berg
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Buddy films
Actors Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, Rosario Dawson, Ewen Bremner, Stephen Bishop
Roles Unit Production Manager
Rating66% 3.348623.348623.348623.348623.34862
Beck (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is a "retrieval expert", a bounty hunter who collects debts for a man named Walker (William Lucking). He is dispatched to a nightclub to retrieve a championship ring from a football player, and after doing so is assaulted by one of Walker's other collectors. Angry, he confronts Walker and tells him that he wants out of the business. Walker talks him into one last bounty - retrieve Walker's son Travis (Seann William Scott) from a small mining town in Brazil and Walker will give him enough money to open his own restaurant. Beck accepts and leaves for Brazil. When Beck arrives in the town of El Dorado he meets with the man running the mining operation, Mr. Hatcher (Christopher Walken). Hatcher gives Beck his blessing to grab Travis, but reneges when he finds out that Travis has discovered a missing golden artifact called "El Gato do Diabo". Beck confronts Hatcher and his men in the local bar and leaves with Travis. On the way back to the airfield, Travis forces their Jeep off the road and into the jungle. There he tries to escape but is re-captured by Beck. After an unfortunate encounter with some local monkeys, the two find themselves in the camp of the local resistance movement.
Goodbye Lover, 1h37
Directed by Roland Joffé
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Mary-Louise Parker, Ellen DeGeneres, Don Johnson, John Neville
Roles Line Producer
Rating56% 2.801542.801542.801542.801542.80154
Sandra, jeune agent immobilier en pleine ascension, a toutes les chances de réussir. Néanmoins, Jake, son mari, est alcoolique. Ce dernier ne doit son poste dans une agence de publicité qu'à la protection de son frère, qui la dirige. Afin de sauver leur couple et de mener une existence agréable, Sandra se lance dans une diabolique machination. Elle n'hésitera pas à faire tout ce qui est en son pouvoir pour y arriver... Elle avait tout prévu, sauf l'imprévisible !
Can of Worms, 1h19
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Children's films
Actors Michael Shulman, Erika Christensen, Adam Wylie, Lee Garlington, Terry David Mulligan, Brian Steele
Roles Producer
Rating48% 2.4072.4072.4072.4072.407
Mike (Michael Shulman) is a young man who feels he does not belong on Earth. He tries to win the heart of his friend Katelyn (Erika Christensen) by helping out with the Halloween Dance, which is sabotaged by his rival, Scott. Upset, Mike sends a message into space asking to be rescued from Earth, unaware that his message has been heard. Soon a diverse range of aliens come to Earth with various offers for Mike, only to find he has changed his mind after Katelyn gives him another chance.
Johnny Tsunami, 1h28
Directed by Steve Boyum
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Surfing films, Children's films
Actors Brandon Baker, Lee Thompson Young, Mary Page Keller, Kirsten Storms, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Yuji Okumoto
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.145783.145783.145783.145783.14578
The movie starts out when Johnny Kapahala (Brandon Baker) is living in Hawaii. Johnny has good friends, a great family, and a grandpa, the famous Johnny Tsunami (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), a surf legend who saved a group of survivors from a plane crash. But then, his father, Pete (Yuji Okumoto), gets a job transfer and makes his wife, Melanie (Mary Page Keller), and Johnny move to Vermont.
I've Been Waiting for You, 1h30
Directed by Christopher Leitch
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Serial killer films, Films about school violence
Actors Sarah Chalke, Soleil Moon Frye, Ben Foster, Chistian Campbell, Maggie Lawson, Tom Dugan
Roles Producer
Rating52% 2.6498552.6498552.6498552.6498552.649855
Sarah Zoltanne (Sarah Chalke) is a teenager who recently moved from Los Angeles to Pine Crest with her mother, Rosemary (Markie Post). Always having been an outsider, she is not very welcomed by her classmates at school. Especially the popular group (who call themselves the 'Descendants Club,' as they are the children of the town's oldest families), including Kyra Thompson (Soleil Moon Frye), Eric Garrett (Christian Campbell), Debbie Murdock (Maggie Lawson), Kevin Lane (Chad Cox), and Misty (Julie Patzwald) are rude to her, criticizing her unusual clothes and attitude. She also meets Charlie Gorman (Ben Foster), who is considered the school geek because he also doesn't quite fit in and works in a family owned occult bookstore. Sarah and Charlie get along fairly well. Sarah is soon bothered with phone calls from a mysterious person, saying "I've been waiting for you." Being a supporter of wicca, she isn't very worried.
Dumb and Dumber, 1h47
Directed by Frères Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Buddy films, Sports d'hiver, Ski
Actors Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Charles Rocket, Mike Starr, Victoria Rowell
Roles Unit Production Manager
Rating72% 3.6449753.6449753.6449753.6449753.644975
Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) are best friends and roommates living in Providence, Rhode Island who struggle at every aspect of life. Lloyd, a limousine driver, falls in love with Mary Swanson (Lauren Holly), a woman he is driving to the airport. She intentionally leaves a briefcase in the terminal; Lloyd, unaware that it contains ransom money for her kidnapped husband, Bobby, retrieves it and tries to return it to her, but her Aspen-bound plane has already departed, leading to Lloyd running through and falling out of the jetway.
Rapid Fire
Rapid Fire (1992)
, 1h35
Directed by Dwight H. Little
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes La corruption policière, Mafia films, Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films, Gangster films
Actors Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe, Tzi Ma, Raymond J. Barry, Nick Mancuso, Michael Paul Chan
Roles Executive Producer
Rating63% 3.1508453.1508453.1508453.1508453.150845
The film opens in Thailand, with Antonio Serrano (Nick Mancuso), a mafia drug distributor visiting long-time associate Kinman Tau (Tzi Ma), a drug kingpin. Serrano is having troubles and wants them to work together, but his request is not reciprocated.
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even, 1h44
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Hillary Wolf, Griffin Dunne, Patricia Kalember, Ben Savage, Adrienne Shelly, Dan Futterman
Roles Producer
Rating62% 3.148143.148143.148143.148143.14814
Laura Chartoff is a teenage girl in a large dysfunctional family. After her parent's divorce, her father, David, has now accumulated three more ex-wives, a four year old daughter (with fourth wife Barbara), and is living with Stephanie – who is in advanced pregnancy with his twins. Laura's mother, Melinda, had her own two-day marriage and is now married to her third husband, Keith Power. Keith is a successful businessman and a widower with three kids of his own – resentful adult son Josh, self-obsessed teenaged daughter Corinne (who bonds with her similarly shallow step-mother), and teenaged son Kurt. Added to the mix of siblings and step-siblings is halfbrother and ten year old genius Sam, the result of an unexpected pregnancy for Melinda and Keith.
House Party, 1h42
Directed by Reginald Hudlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Christopher "Kid" Reid, Christopher "Play" Martin, Robin Harris, Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell-Martin, A.J. Johnson
Roles Executive Producer
Rating64% 3.2488553.2488553.2488553.2488553.248855
While in their high school cafeteria, Peter, also known as "Play" (Christopher "Play" Martin) announces to his friends Christopher aka "Kid" (Reid) and Bilal (Martin Lawrence) that he will be having a party at his house that night, as his parents are on vacation. The reluctant Bilal is to be the DJ. Kid is then involved in an altercation with school bully Stab (Paul Anthony) and his two brothers Pee-Wee and Zilla (Bowlegged Lou and B-Fine). When Kid comes home, he tries to convince his father, "Pop" (Robin Harris) to let him go to the party. At first Kid's father relents, but soon grounds Kid when a note from Kid's school informs him of the fight he was in. Rather than miss the party of the year, Kid sneaks out while his sleeping father is watching Dolemite - not realizing that his father woke up just as he closed the door. On his way to the party, Kid runs into Stab and his brothers, he jumps over a fence to get away, ending up looking in a window where a fat man is having rough sex with his lady, and when he is discovered, Kid jumps back over the fence, and the three punks are shot at. Kid then ducks into an Alpha Delta Sigma reunion nearby to get away from them. Crashing the reunion, Kid has the DJ (George Clinton) scratch and mix a few of his old doo wop records so that he can liven the party with a rap, until Stab and the others turn up again. When trying to get away from Stab, he winds up knocking an older man down before attempting to make a run for it. However, Kid and the bullies are caught by the neighborhood police, who humiliate the four teenagers in front of the reunion party attendees before letting them go.
Lucky Stiff, 1h22
Directed by Anthony Perkins
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Donna Dixon, Joe Alaskey, Jeff Kober, Fran Ryan, William Morgan Sheppard, Barbara Howard
Roles Producer
Rating47% 2.370422.370422.370422.370422.37042
Ron Douglas takes a holiday in the mountains to recover from his bride running away on their wedding day. There he meets Cynthia Mitchell, who invites him home for Christmas dinner with her family, descendants of the Donner Party.
My Demon Lover, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Actors Scott Valentine, Robert Trebor, Gina Gallego, Alan Fudge, Calvert DeForest, Arnold Johnson
Roles Producer
Rating46% 2.3165552.3165552.3165552.3165552.316555
A homeless street musician becomes a demon when sexually aroused.
The Hidden
The Hidden (1987)
, 1h36
Directed by Jack Sholder
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about terrorism, Serial killer films, Buddy films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian, Ed O'Ross, Richard Brooks, William Boyett
Roles Producer
Rating69% 3.498543.498543.498543.498543.49854
Jack DeVries (Chris Mulkey), a quiet citizen with no criminal past, robs a Los Angeles Wells Fargo bank, kills all of the security guards inside, and leads the Los Angeles Police Department on a high-speed chase. The chase ends when DeVries encounters a police blockade overseen by detective Thomas Beck (Michael Nouri). DeVries is shot several times, smashes through the blockade and crashes the Ferrari he is driving. DeVries is taken to a hospital, where a doctor informs Beck and his partner, Det. Cliff Willis (Ed O'Ross) that DeVries is not expected to survive the night.
Quiet Cool
Quiet Cool (1986)
, 1h20
Directed by Clay Borris
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors James Remar, Daphne Ashbrook, Adam Coleman Howard, Jared Martin, Nick Cassavetes, Chris Mulkey
Roles Producer
Rating56% 2.8088352.8088352.8088352.8088352.808835
Joe Dylanne is a plain-clothes NYC cop with a badge and a robust personality. He always resorts to unconventional methods in order to capture the city's slickest criminals. When Dylanne receives a message from Katy, an old sweetheart of his, the news is not as pleasant as he anticipated. Rather, it is an imperative call for help. Dylanne must swing into full action. This cop must travel to a remote location in the northwest in order to investigate the disappearances of his friend's relatives. It turns out that most of Kate's relatives have been murdered in cold blood. The only survivor of the slaughter is Joshua, an angst-ridden survivalist who explains to Dylanne about a sophisticated plan implicating marijuana plant growers. Dylanne and Joshua must trespass enemy territory in the name of revenge.