Gerry Black

Acting

Gerry Black

Born 1927-09-21 · New York City, New York, USA

Acting credits

National Lampoon's Vacation poster
7.1

Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.

National Lampoon's Vacation

1983

Volcano poster
6.0

An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.

Volcano

1997

Re-Animator poster
7.1

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

Re-Animator

1985

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story poster
6.6

Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

2007

The Majestic poster
6.8

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

The Majestic

2001

First Sunday poster
5.6

Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.

First Sunday

2008

Aunt Mary poster
7.3

The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a sandlot baseball team and ended up coaching more than 50,000 boys and girls over nearly 40 years.

Aunt Mary

1979

Across 110th Street poster
6.7

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

Across 110th Street

1972

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker poster
4.6

A toy maker's creations display some very human -- and deadly -- tendencies.

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker

1991

Hero at Large poster
5.9

An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.

Hero at Large

1980

Howling VI: The Freaks poster
4.4

A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.

Howling VI: The Freaks

1991

Master Ninja poster
4.4

Aging skilled master ninja, John Peter McAllister, and his young apprentice search for John's long lost daughter, all the while his old enemies try to stop him. The first two episodes of "The Master" edited into a feature length film used as a promo for the television series.

Master Ninja

1984

A Very Brady Christmas poster
6.2

Almost 20 years after the start of the original "Brady Bunch" the kids are grown up and have kids of their own. Everyone is having a wonderful time back at the family house for Christmas, until Mike learns of a structural problem in one of the buildings he designed. As he is inspecting the problem, the building collapses, trapping him inside. As the whole family waits by the pile of rubble, they fear the worst. Will Dad be all right?

A Very Brady Christmas

1988

Thornwell poster
7.3

The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents while stationed in Orleans, France, in 1961, led Congress to award him $625,000 in damages nearly 20 years later.

Thornwell

1981

No artwork available
4.4

A young man, born deaf, invents a computer so he can hear and speak with others.

Tin Man

1983