Jerry Warren was an American film director, producer, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer, and actor.
13 Facts About Jerry Warren
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Jerry Warren appeared in small parts in a few 1940s films such as Ghost Catchers, Anchors Aweigh, and Unconquered.
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Jerry Warren initially created his own films, although relying heavily on stock footage.
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Jerry Warren even wrote some screenplays for his films under the pen name "Jacques Lecoutier", which he sometimes misspelled in the credits.
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Jerry Warren is known for producing and directing a number of cult films such as Teenage Zombies, The Incredible Petrified World, Terror of the Bloodhunters, and the aforementioned Man Beast.
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Jerry Warren released his version in the United States on May 3,1962 as a double feature with his film Terror of the Bloodhunters starring Robert Clarke.
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Jerry Warren released three other re-edited foreign films in 1963, Bullet for Billy the Kid, The Violent and the Damned, and No Time to Kill.
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From 1963 to 1965, Jerry Warren re-edited several other foreign horror films, re-titling them all and adding newly filmed sequences to them.
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Jerry Warren was hired to film some extra footage in 1965 to pad out the running time of another American producer's film titled Blood of the Man-Devil which starred Lon Chaney Jr.
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Jerry Warren produced an all-original film called The Wild World of Batwoman in 1966 which stars Katherine Victor and Bruno Ve Sota.
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Jerry Warren did not produce another film after that until he released his final motion picture, Frankenstein Island in 1981, starring his biggest name cast of Katherine Victor, John Carradine, Cameron Mitchell, Steve Brodie and Robert Clarke.
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Jerry Warren often cut out all of a foreign film's dialogue and would shoot new scenes in which the American actors would try to explain the plot, sometimes using extensive voice-over narration, or adding scenes in which his actors would simply sit in front of the camera and just talk to each other.
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Jerry Warren played "Pam" in Teenage Zombies and the Yeti creature in Man Beast.