Biography

Gerald Ayres was born on February 3, 1936 in San Diego, California, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Rich and Famous (1981), The Last Detail (1973) and Foxes (1980). He died on April 7, 2018 in Watertown, New York, USA.

Ayres, when he was working at Columbia Pictures in the late 196os, was responsible for arranging the contract that would bring French auteur director Jacques Demy, recently popular in the US for his musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, to Los Angeles, and in the bargain Demy's wife Agnes Varda who would also work briefly in Hollywood.

I was a Hollywood studio executive. The title which went with the job at Columbia Pictures was vice-president of creative affairs, which someone once pointed out was a pretty fair description of a pimp.

[on Karen Black]: Her truly monster intellect can show itself in one breath with an existential critique of the Jagger film "Performance", and in the next breath she is mewing like an unweaned kitten and blinking her eyes and you wonder if anyone other than a circus master could keep all these acts programmed.