---
name: "Lou Adler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lou-adler"
fi1m_id: "lou-adler"
imdb_id: "nm0004693"
tmdb_id: 69500
wikidata_id: "Q568770"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "13 December 1933"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:31:05.677469+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."
---

# Lou Adler

## Identity

Lou Adler

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lou-adler
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lou-adler
- **IMDb ID:** nm0004693
- **TMDB ID:** 69500
- **Wikidata ID:** Q568770
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Adler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q568770, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004693/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69500

Producer and director. Born 13 December 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 13 December 1933, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Active:** 1975–1978
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 directing, 1 producing, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 64 (2), 2010s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Adler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q568770, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004693/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69500

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Up in Smoke*](https://film.one/film/up-in-smoke.md) (56)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lou Adler is an American record and film producer. Born Lester Louis Adler on 13 December 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, he founded Dunhill Records in 1964 and later Ode Records. He produced albums and developed artists including The Mamas & the Papas and Carole King, whose *Tapestry* (1971) won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1972. He co-produced the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967 and the resulting film *Monterey Pop* (1968).

Adler was executive producer of *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* (1975). He directed and produced *Up in Smoke* (1978), starring Cheech & Chong. Other film credits include producing *Brewster McCloud* (1970) and executive producing *Shock Treatment* (1981) and *American Me* (1992).

Adler received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 for his work in music and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (1)

- *Up in Smoke* (1978), Fi1m 56, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/up-in-smoke.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* (1975), Fi1m 72, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-rocky-horror-picture-show.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *20 Feet from Stardom* (2013), Fi1m 74, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/20-feet-from-stardom.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Corduroy Plants* (2026), Producer
- *Adam Sandler: Love You* (2024), as Booth Technician
- *Carole King: Home Again - Live in Central Park* (2023), Producer
- *The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again* (2016), Executive Producer
- *You've Got A Friend: The Carole King Story* (2014), Actor
- *Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie!* (2013), Producer, Music Supervisor
- *I'm Still Here* (2010), Thanks
- *The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show* (1995), Thanks
- *American Me* (1992), Executive Producer
- *Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains* (1982), Director
- *Shock Treatment* (1981), Executive Producer
- *Up in Smoke* (1978), Producer, Director — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/up-in-smoke.md)
- *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* (1975), Executive Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-rocky-horror-picture-show.md)
- *Basketball Jones* (1974), Producer
- *Brewster McCloud* (1971), Producer
- *Monterey Pop* (1968), Producer

## Gallery

- ![Lou Adler at the ceremony for Carole King receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, December 3, 2012](https://film.one/media/person/673504/gallery-de902e0f69a1.jpg) Lou Adler at the ceremony for Carole King receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, December 3, 2012 — Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/LouAdlerHWOFDec2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Lou Adler](https://film.one/media/person/673504/gallery-4ed8bba0e3b6.jpg) Lou Adler — Nathansummers at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Louadler.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2013: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (won)
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 2006: star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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