- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJerry Arthur Warren
- Nickname
- Jacques Lecoutier
- With all due respect to the man himself, it is hard to think of any horror filmmaker who made movies that were as cheap or as ridiculed as Jerry Warren's. Whether making shoestring quickies like The Incredible Petrified World (1959) or Teenage Zombies (1959), or mangling Mexican imports, Warren could be counted on through the late '50s and early '60s to deliver the lowest common denominator in horror. Warren said that he grew up with the same natural inclination that every other kid growing up in Los Angeles had: He wanted to get into the movie business. He first pursued this ambition by playing small parts in such '40s films as Ghost Catchers (1944), Anchors Aweigh (1945) and Unconquered (1947). A producer made a big impression on Warren when he said, "In this town, producers are the ones that have it all". Warren subsequently took the producers' plunge in 1956 with the horror adventure Man Beast (1956).
- IMDb mini biography by: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>
- SpousesBrianne Murphy(1956 - 1959) (divorced)Gloria(? - August 21, 1988) (his death)
- He initially created his own films, although relying heavily on stock footage. Later, he would just buy foreign films that already existed and re-edit them, dubbing some scenes in English and inserting new footage which he shot with American actors such as John Carradine and Katherine Victor.
- Warren said in a 1988 interview (about adding extra footage on foreign movies) with Tom Weaver, "I'd shoot one day on this stuff and throw it together...I was in the business to make money. I never, ever tried in any way to compete, or to make something worthwhile. I only did enough to get by, so they would buy it, so it would play, and so I'd get a few dollars. It's not very fair to the public, I guess, but that was my attitude...You didn't have to go all out and make a really good picture.".
- Warren produced an all-original film called "The Wild World of Batwoman" in 1966 which stars Katherine Victor and Bruno Ve Sota. He 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.
- After creating and distributing the first four of his own films ( Teenage Zombies, The Incredible Petrified World, Terror of the Bloodhunters, and Man Beast) Warren decided that producing original features from scratch required entirely too much money and effort, so he began buying and distributing foreign-made films through his own distribution company, Associated Distributors Pictures Inc., or ADP. His first such involved purchasing the Swedish science fiction film Space Invasion of Lapland, and editing it into his own version re-titled "Invasion of the Animal People".
- 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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