Jack Sher
Jack Sher was an American newspaper columnist, songwriter, film director, film writer, and producer.Career
Sher wrote for several magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Redbook, Radio Mirror, Readers Digest, and Collier's. He also had been a columnist for the New York Reporter, and from 1937 to 1940 Screen & Radio Weekly, a nationally syndicated Sunday supplement published by the Detroit Free Press.
Sher wrote a number of films for Audie Murphy, including in 1959, The Wild and the Innocent, which he also directed. In the 1979 remake for TV, The Kid from Left Field, Gary Coleman, who starred in the series, accepted the NAACP Image Award for Best Children's Special of Episode in a Series. Sher's 1971–1972 television play, Goodbye, Raggedy Ann was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama – Original Teleplay.Selected Credits
Broadway
- The Perfect Set-Up? – playwright
Film
- My Favorite Spy – writer
- Shane – writer
- Off Limits – writer
- The Kid from Left Field – writer
- World in My Corner – writer
- Walk the Proud Land – writer
- Four Girls in Town – writer, director
- Joe Butterfly – writer
- Kathy O' – writer, director
- The Wild and the Innocent – writer, director
- The 3 Worlds of Gulliver – writer, director
- Love in a Goldfish Bowl – writer, director
- Paris Blues – writer
- Critic's Choice – writer
- Move Over, Darling – writer
- Slither – producer
Television
- Bewitched – 3 episodes
- The Wackiest Ship in the Army – 1 episode
- Goodbye, Raggedy Ann – producer, writer
- Holmes and Yo-Yo – creator
- The Kid from Left Field – writer
Books
- Twelve Sport Immortals, Ernest Victor Heyn , Bartholomew House ;
- Twelve More Sport Immortals, Ernest Victor Heyn , Bartholomew House ;
