12 Facts About Jerry Fairbanks

Gerald Bertram Fairbanks was a producer and director in the Hollywood motion picture and television industry.

Jerry Fairbanks survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and began his career in film as a cameraman on silent movies such as John Barrymore's The Sea Beast.

In 1945, Jerry Fairbanks won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One Reel for Who's Who in Animal Land, and was nominated again in that category in 1948 for Moon Rockets.

Jerry Fairbanks's initial series was a 26-episode crime drama, Public Prosecutor, originally produced for NBC Television, but briefly shown on DuMont and in syndication instead.

Jerry Fairbanks broke new ground in television by inventing for NBC in 1947 the Multi-Cam multiple-camera setup of production, assisted by producer-director Frank Telford, which is still used by sitcoms today.

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Jerry Fairbanks gave James Dean his very first opportunities on film, first in two Pepsi-Cola TV commercials and then as John the Apostle in the Father Peyton's Family Theater TV episode entitled "Hill Number One, " broadcast on Easter Sunday, April 1,1950.

Jerry Fairbanks chose television and continued making Popular Science films for the new medium of TV.

In 1953, Jerry Fairbanks declared bankruptcy, and virtually ended TV production in favor of commercial and industrial films.

Jerry Fairbanks served a 5-year term from the late 1960s to the early 1970s as president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce — curiously, the first president in the 50-year history of the Chamber from the entertainment industry.

Jerry Fairbanks was a fine golfer for some years, among other things winning in 1954 the handicap championship at the Lakeside Golf Club.

Jerry Fairbanks was an avid aviator, having learned to fly in 1926 and then flying his own plane all over the USA on production assignments.

Jerry Fairbanks has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6384 Hollywood Blvd, at the corner of Hollywood and Cahuenga.