Jerry Ziesmer
Director
Born: May 31, 1939 (82 years old)
Died: August 1, 2021
Place of birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Biography
Jerry Ziesmer (May 31, 1939 – August 1, 2021) was an American assistant director, production manager and occasional actor. He is best known for his role as Jerry in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now in which he delivers the infamous line "terminate with extreme prejudice".
Filmography (28)
- Apocalypse Now (1979, ★ 8.3)
- Rocky II (1979, ★ 7.3)
- Midnight Run (1988, ★ 7.2)
- Almost Famous (2000, ★ 7.5)
- Scarface (1983, ★ 8.2)
- Say Anything... (1989, ★ 7)
- Blue Thunder (1983, ★ 6.2)
- Jerry Maguire (1996, ★ 7)
- Singles (1992, ★ 6.4)
- Some Kind of Wonderful (1987, ★ 6.8)
- The Great White Hope (1970, ★ 6.2)
- Out for Justice (1991, ★ 6.1)
- Marked for Death (1990, ★ 6.1)
- Short Circuit (1986, ★ 6.6)
- The River (1984, ★ 6.3)
- History of the World: Part I (1981, ★ 6.8)
- Where Have All the People Gone (1974, ★ 5.9)
- Black Sunday (1977, ★ 6.7)
- The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978, ★ 4.7)
- J.W. Coop (1972, ★ 5.1)
- Love at Large (1990, ★ 4.9)
- 1941 (1979, ★ 5.8)
- Lost Horizon (1973, ★ 5.4)
- American Flyers (1985, ★ 6.1)
- Solar Crisis (1992, ★ 4.2)
- Secrets (1992, ★ 4.2)
- Something Big (1971, ★ 5.1)
- Mitchell (1975, ★ 3.2)