Gerald W. Abrams
| Gerald W. Abrams | |
|---|---|
| Born |
26 September 1939 United States of America |
| Alma mater | Penn State University |
| Occupation | Television producer |
| Spouse(s) | Carol Ann Abrams (1942-2012) (m. 1964-2012: her death) |
| Children |
J.J. Abrams (1966-) Tracy Rosen (1968-) |
Gerald W. Abrams (born September 26, 1939) is an American television producer and the father of J. J. Abrams, best known for the large number of TV movies he has produced since the mid-1970s.
Gerald W. Abrams has executive produced over 70 films, most recently Love, Again, Christmas Shepherd, and Houdini, cable television’s top-rated miniseries of 2014. .Houdini, a two-part, four-hour miniseries for History was written by Academy Award-nominated Nicholas Meyer and directed by Uli Edel. It premiered on September 1, 2014, starring Adrien Brody as Harry Houdini and co-starring Kristen Connolly (House of Cards) and Evan Jones. The film tells the story of the legendary illusionist and escape artist who rose from poverty to worldwide fame and fortune.
Abrams has been nominated for two Emmys; the most recent was for Nuremberg, a dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Nuremberg was a four-hour mini-series for Turner Network Television starring Alec Baldwin and Christopher Plummer and directed by Yves Simoneau. Premiered in July 2000, the film was one of the highest-rated cable mini-series in history; it won four Emmy Nominations, Brian Cox won for the Best Performance by a Supporting Actor, and it received three Golden Globe nominations and a Producer’s Guild Golden Laurel nomination. The film won a Gemini Award, which is Canada’s equivalent of an Emmy.
Abram’s second Emmy nomination was for Family of Spies.Family of Spies is a fact-based story of John A. Walker, Jr., a Navy chief warrant officer with access to top-secret cryptographic communications. As a result of mounting debts, he sold secrets to the Soviets in 1967, a practice that he continued thereafter. He further sought to involve his four children into the espionage until his wife caught on to his activities. The film was Shot in Vienna, Austria, and it starred Powers Boothe and Lesley Ann Warren. Warren was nominated for an Emmy as well.
In 2005, Abrams and Bud Greenspan produced Four Minutes for ESPN, written by legendary Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford, and it starred Christopher Plummer, which chronicled Roger Bannister’s feat of being the first to run the mile in under four minutes. Four Minutes was nominated for an Emmy and an ESPY award.
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