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Known For: Directing
Born: May 31, 1939
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Died: August 1, 2021

Jerry Ziesmer

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

Almost Famous

2000 · First Assistant Director, Associate Producer

Jerry Maguire

1996 · Trainer, First Assistant Director

Singles

1992 · Councilman Jordan Fisher

Solar Crisis

1992 · First Assistant Director

Secrets

1992 · First Assistant Director

Out for Justice

1991 · First Assistant Director

Marked for Death

1990 · First Assistant Director

Love at Large

1990 · First Assistant Director

Say Anything...

1989 · U.S. Attorney, First Assistant Director

Midnight Run

1988 · First Assistant Director

Some Kind of Wonderful

1987 · First Assistant Director

Short Circuit

1986 · First Assistant Director

American Flyers

1985 · Assistant Director

The River

1984 · First Assistant Director

Scarface

1983 · First Assistant Director

Blue Thunder

1983 · Pilot, First Assistant Director

Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical

1982 · Self

History of the World: Part I

1981 · Assistant Director

1941

1979 · First Assistant Director

Rocky II

1979 · Salesman (uncredited), First Assistant Director

Apocalypse Now

1979 · Jerry, Civilian, Assistant Director

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

1978 · Eddie of Network, Assistant Director

Black Sunday

1977 · Unit Production Manager, Assistant Director

Mitchell

1975 · Assistant Director

Where Have All the People Gone

1974 · Assistant Director

Lost Horizon

1973 · Second Assistant Director

J.W. Coop

1972 · Second Assistant Director

Something Big

1971 · Second Assistant Director

The Great White Hope

1970 · Assistant Director

Going My Way

1962

Sam Benedict

1962

Jerry Ziesmer · Virelixia