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name: "Gilbert Adler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gilbert-adler"
fi1m_id: "gilbert-adler"
imdb_id: "nm0012155"
tmdb_id: 10953
wikidata_id: "Q3294231"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "14 February 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T19:34:24.055633+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Gilbert Adler

## Identity

Gilbert Adler

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gilbert-adler
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gilbert-adler
- **IMDb ID:** nm0012155
- **TMDB ID:** 10953
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3294231
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Adler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3294231, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012155/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10953

Producer. Born 14 February 1946 in New York City.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 14 February 1946, New York City
- **Also known as:** Gil Adler
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Adler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3294231, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012155/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10953

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Superman Returns*](https://film.one/film/superman-returns.md) (60)

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## Biography

Gilbert Adler, also credited as Gil Adler, is an American film producer, writer and director. Born in New York City on 14 February 1946, he began his career producing features including Brian De Palma's *Home Movies* (1979).

Adler is known for his work on horror films and television, including producing, writing and directing episodes of the anthology series *Tales from the Crypt* (1989–1996) and its spin-offs *Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight* (1995) and *Bordello of Blood* (1996). He directed episodes of *Charmed* (1998) and *Fantasy Island* (1998). In 1999 he co-founded Dark Castle Entertainment with Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver.

His later producing credits include *House on Haunted Hill* (1999), *Thir13en Ghosts* (2001), *Ghost Ship* (2002), *Starsky & Hutch* (2004), *Constantine* (2005), *Superman Returns* (2006) and *Valkyrie* (2008).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, encyclopedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Superman Returns* (2006), Fi1m 60, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/superman-returns.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Buckley's Chance* (2021), Producer
- *Intelligence* (2014), series, Producer
- *Dylan Dog: Dead of Night* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Valkyrie* (2008), Producer
- *Superman Returns* (2006), Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/superman-returns.md)
- *Constantine* (2005), Executive Producer
- *Starsky & Hutch* (2004), Executive Producer
- *Ghost Ship* (2002), Producer
- *Thir13en Ghosts* (2001), Producer
- *House on Haunted Hill* (1999), Producer
- *Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection* (1999), Producer, Writer
- *Charmed* (1998), series, Director
- *Fantasy Island* (1998), series, Director
- *Double Tap* (1997), Producer
- *Perversions of Science* (1997), series, Director, Producer
- *Bordello of Blood* (1996), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *W.E.I.R.D. World* (1995), Co-Executive Producer, Teleplay
- *Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight* (1995), Producer
- *The Nightmare Begins Again* (1993), Producer
- *Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice* (1992), Writer
- *Hollywood Dog* (1990), Producer
- *Tales from the Crypt* (1989), series, Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *Freddy's Nightmares* (1988), series, Writer, Director, Producer
- *Basic Training* (1985), as Security Guard
- *Certain Fury* (1985), Producer
- *Home Movies* (1980), Producer

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