Producer and assistant director Gerald T. Olson has contributed to over thirty feature films and television series. His career began to develop in the 1970s and now Gerald has such films as Dumb and dumber. "Goodbye Lover," "Johnny Tsunami." He grew up in San Francisco, where thanks to his father, a passionate admirer of Federico Fellini, François Truffaut and Luis Buñuel, he fell in love with cinema himself. While studying at school, together with several friends, he began to shoot films on an
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Producer and assistant director Gerald T. Olson has contributed to over thirty feature films and television series. His career began to develop in the 1970s and now Gerald has such films as
Dumb and dumber. "Goodbye Lover," "Johnny Tsunami."
He grew up in San Francisco, where thanks to his father, a passionate admirer of Federico Fellini, François Truffaut and Luis Buñuel, he fell in love with cinema himself. While studying at school, together with several friends, he began to shoot films on an amateur camera, and after graduation he entered the San Francisco Film School. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, hoping to start a career in film. Soon he was already working as an assistant producer at ABC, at the age of 24 he became the first assistant director, and then a member of the Directors Guild. After working on the creation of TV projects at Universal, he directed his first, still low-budget film Happy Birthday, and soon moved to creating commercial films as a line producer and production manager.
After working as an associate producer on the crime comedy The Confiscator (1984), Olson became director of production at HBO, and in 1992 moved to New Line Cinema as vice president of production.