Jerry Sherlock

Who is Jerry Sherlock?

Jerry Sherlock is an educator and former film and theater producer. Sherlock founded the New York Film Academy School of Film and Acting, in 1992. Sherlock currently resides in New York City and is the President of the New York Film Academy.

Starting his career as a roustabout in a carnival at the age of fourteen, Sherlock became a film and Broadway producer in the early 1980s. As an independent producer for film, stage, and television he developed projects for Disney, Warner Brothers, United Artists, Paramount, E.M.I. and others. His credits are executive producer of the major motion picture, The Hunt for Red October, for Paramount Pictures; the Producer of Lolita, a Broadway production; and Executive Producer of the television production, Amal and the Night Visitors, for CBS.