Chris Gerolmo
Chris Gerolmo is a Golden Globe nominated screenwriter, director, and singer-songwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the multi-Academy Award nominated film Mississippi Burning and the less successful Miles from Home starring Richard Gere. He has also written a book about the death of his wife, Joan, from cancer in 2007. He lives in Brentwood, California with his three children and stepson.
Chris Gerolmo
- Name
- Chris Gerolmo
- Birthplace
- United States
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter, singer-songwriter
- Education
- Harvard University
- Honours
- Writers Guild of America Award · Edgar Awards · Sitges Film Festival Best Director award
- Languages
- German
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• Name — Chris Gerolmo • Birthplace — United States • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter, singer-songwriter
Early life and education
Early life and education
He was born to Frank Gero (1929–2014), a former theater actor and stage manager who later became a producer, and Woji Gero who worked alongside her husband in the production business in the mid-1950s. He attended Harvard University in the early 1970s graduating with a BA in Writing & Film-making.
Television work
Television work
In 1995 Gerolmo wrote and directed the made-for-TV movie Citizen X, about the Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. Gerolmo's screenplay for Citizen X — based on the book The Killer Department by Robert Cullen – earned him an Emmy nomination, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award. He also co-created with Steven Bochco the FX Networks military drama series Over There. He also wrote and performed the title song. He was a consulting producer on The Bridge, an American police drama on the FX network, based on a 2011 police drama series co-produced in Denmark and Sweden.
Filmography
Filmography
• Above Suspicion (2019) (writer) • The Bridge (2013) (TV Series) (producer: 12 episodes, writer: 1 episode) • Certain Prey (2011) (TV Movie) (teleplay) • Over There (2005) (TV Series) co-creator, writer: 2 episodes • Citizen X (1995) (TV Movie) (teleplay) • The Witness (1992) (TV Short) • Mississippi Burning (1988) (writer) • Miles from Home (1988) (writer)
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Chris Gerolmo is recorded as having received Writers Guild of America Award, Edgar Awards and Sitges Film Festival Best Director award.
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Chris Gerolmo received Writers Guild of America Award, Edgar Awards and Sitges Film Festival Best Director award.
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- 1.Joan Gerolmo Obituary. Legacy.com. December 28, 2007.
- 2.O'Connor, John J. TELEVISION REVIEW; A Soviet Serial Murderer. The New York Times. February 25, 1995.
- 3.Gloria Goodale. TV series 'Over There' dramatizes Iraq war. Christian Science Monitor. CSMonitor.com.
- 4.Marc Peyser. FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT – Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek.com. July 24, 2005.
- 5.Bianco, Robert. 'Over There' brings the Iraq war home. Usatoday.Com. July 26, 2005.
- 6.Antiwar.com. Over There – Hollywood Joins the War Party by Justin Raimondo. October 28, 2012.
- 7.John Koopman. There's 'Over There' – and there's the real thing. Soldiers who served in Iraq share their views on the show. SFGate. August 30, 2005.
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