Jerome Leon Bruckheimer was born on September 21,1943 and is an American film and television producer.
35 Facts About Jerry Bruckheimer
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Jerry Bruckheimer has been active in the genres of action, drama, fantasy, and science fiction.
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Jerry Bruckheimer's films include Flashdance, Top Gun, The Rock, Crimson Tide, Con Air, Armageddon, Enemy of the State, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Kangaroo Jack, and the Beverly Hills Cop, Bad Boys, Pirates of the Caribbean, and the National Treasure franchises.
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In July 2003, Jerry Bruckheimer was honored by Variety as the first producer in Hollywood history to produce the top two highest-grossing films of a single weekend, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Bad Boys II.
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Jerry Bruckheimer's best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, CSI: Cyber, Without a Trace, Cold Case, and the American version of The Amazing Race.
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Jerry Bruckheimer is the co-founder and co-majority owner of the Seattle Kraken, the 2021 expansion team of the National Hockey League.
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Jerry Bruckheimer was born on September 21,1943, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of German Jewish immigrants.
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Jerry Bruckheimer graduated from Mumford High School in 1961 in Detroit, at age 17, before moving to Arizona for college.
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Jerry Bruckheimer was an active member of the Stamp Collecting Club.
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Jerry Bruckheimer graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Arizona.
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Jerry Bruckheimer was a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
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Early in his career, Jerry Bruckheimer produced television commercials, including one for Pepsi.
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Jerry Bruckheimer then worked with Paul Schrader on two films, American Gigolo and Cat People, which began to give him notice in Hollywood.
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Jerry Bruckheimer first met Simpson at a screening of 1973's The Harder They Come at Warner Brothers.
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Jerry Bruckheimer had a number of other hits during that time period, including the Beverly Hills Cop films, Top Gun, and Days of Thunder.
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The Rock was the last film in which Jerry Bruckheimer collaborated with Simpson.
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Jerry Bruckheimer has acquired the rights to produce a film based on the popular role playing game by Palladium Books, Rifts.
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Since 1996, Jerry Bruckheimer has branched out into television, creating a number of police dramas of which CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has been the most successful.
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Jerry Bruckheimer produced the reality game show The Amazing Race.
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From 2004 to 2009, Jerry Bruckheimer had six hit television shows on the air: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Cold Case, Without a Trace and The Amazing Race.
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In December 2007, Jerry Bruckheimer announced plans to partner with MTV to create a new game studio.
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In 2009, Bruckheimer unveiled Jerry Bruckheimer Games, headed by former Microsoft Studios Publishing Executive Producer Jim Veevaert, as President of Production, and Jay Cohen, previously Ubisoft's Vice President of US Publishing, as President of Development.
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In 2011, it was rumored that Jerry Bruckheimer Games was working on three titles, but nothing came to fruition.
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Jerry Bruckheimer signed a new first-look deal with Paramount that same year and mentioned a new Beverly Hills Cop and a Top Gun 2 as potential production ventures with his new partner.
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In June 2016, Jerry Bruckheimer Television became an independent outfit, ending a 15-year run exclusive pact with Warner Bros Television.
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Jerry Bruckheimer was named as one of the investors of a proposed sports arena in Las Vegas, and he had been rumored to be the leading choice by the National Hockey League to own an expansion hockey team that would play in the arena.
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Jerry Bruckheimer was named as one of the investors of a proposed Seattle-based NHL expansion team, whose application was submitted in early 2018.
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Jerry Bruckheimer was part of an investment group that included Tim Leiweke and David Bonderman.
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The model, which was developed by Jerry Bruckheimer, launched a new trend of military movies in the 1990s and onward.
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In July 2003, Jerry Bruckheimer was honored by Variety as the first producer in Hollywood history to produce the top two highest-grossing films of a single weekend, the buddy-cop Bad Boys II and the Disney theme-park spin-off, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
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Jerry Bruckheimer has aided in the repair and restoration of the historic clipper ship, Cutty Sark.
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Jerry Bruckheimer has donated more than $50,000 to Republican campaigns and committees.
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Jerry Bruckheimer donated funds to John McCain's 2008 presidential election campaign.
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Jerry Bruckheimer gave $5,000 to a joint fundraising committee on John McCain's behalf.
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Jerry Bruckheimer donated $25,000 to the 2012 Mitt Romney Victory Fund.