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Adam Simon

{{short description|American film director}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Adam Simon

| image = Adam Simon.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| caption = Adam Simon at the 2015 WonderCon promoting Salem

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|2|6}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| occupation = Director • screenwriter • producer

| years_active = 1989–present

}}

Adam Simon (born February 6, 1962) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. His directing credits include Brain Dead (1990), Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger (1992), and Carnosaur (1993). Simon, along with producer Brannon Braga, co-created the television series Salem. As a screenwriter, Simon is known for Bones (2001), The Haunting in Connecticut (2009), and Books of Blood (2020).

Career

He plays a humorous version of himself, pitching a project and getting barred from the studio lot, in the famous opening-shot of Robert Altman's The Player (1992). He previously appeared, thinly veiled, as a fictional character in Christopher Guest's film The Big Picture (1989) and would reappear in Kim Newman's novel Johnny Alucard (2013), where he again pitches a project and becomes the only person in Hollywood standing up to a particularly sinister studio executive.[http://johnnyalucard.com/fiction/online-fiction/the-player-anno-dracula-1990/ Excerpt from "Johnny Alucard"]

Kim Newman has noted that Adam Simon has "become one of the most oft-cited figures in contemporary Hollywood satire, and those in the know have begun to play the game of Simon-spotting. [...] Remarkable look- and act-alikes for Adam Simon have appeared in a couple of sinister Hollywood satires: Adam Rafkin (Jarrad Paul) on the cancelled-too-soon TV series Action, who ruins his emotional and physical health on successive drafts of Beverly Hills Gun Club for sleazy überproducer Peter Dragon (Jay Mohr); and Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, who finds his entire life - and film project - jeopardised when he considers going against the wishes of backers who represent either organised crime or Hell."[https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/12/03/kim_newman_22_article.shtml "Who Let Adam Simon on the Lot?" by Kim Newman]

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"

! rowspan="2" scope="col"| Title

! rowspan="2" scope="col"| Year

! colspan="3" scope="col"| Credited as

! rowspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable"| Notes

Director

!Producer

!Writer

scope=row|Lock Up

|1989

|{{no}}

|{{yes|Co-}}

|{{no}}

|

scope=row|Brain Dead

|1990

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|

scope=row|Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger

|1992

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|

scope=row|Carnosaur

|1993

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|

scope=row|The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

|1996

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|Documentary film

scope=row|The American Nightmare

|2000

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|Documentary film

scope=row|John Landis on: An American Werewolf in London

|2001

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|Featurette

scope=row|Bones

|2001

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|

scope=row|The Spectre of Hope

|2002

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|Documentary film

scope=row|The Haunting in Connecticut

|2009

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|

scope=row|Captive State

|2019

|{{no}}

|{{yes|Executive}}

|{{no}}

|

scope=row|Books of Blood

|2020

|{{no}}

|{{yes|Executive}}

|{{yes}}

|

=Television=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"

! rowspan="2" scope="col"| Title

! rowspan="2" scope="col"| Year

! colspan="4" scope="col"| Credited as

! rowspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable"| Notes

Creator

!Director

!Writer

!Executive
producer

scope=row|Directors on Directors

|1997

|{{no}}

|{{yes}} (1)

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|Docuseries, Episode "Simon - Corman"

scope=row|BlackBoxTV

|2012

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}} (1)

|{{no}}

|Anthology series

scope=row|Salem{{Cite web |url=http://www.fangoria.com/new/qa-executive-producer-adam-simon-on-salem-and-a-lovecraftian-second-season/ |title=Q&A: Executive Producer Adam Simon on "SALEM" and a Lovecraftian Second Season |access-date=2015-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402141919/http://www.fangoria.com/new/qa-executive-producer-adam-simon-on-salem-and-a-lovecraftian-second-season/ |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead }}

|2014–17

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}} (21)

|{{yes}}

|

scope=row|Next

|2020

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}} (3)

|{{yes|Co-executive}}

|Co-executive producer {{small|(9 episodes)}}

=Actor=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"

!scope="col"| Title

!scope="col"| Year

!scope="col"| Role

!scope="col" class="unsortable"| Notes

scope=row|The Unborn

|1991

|Priest

|

scope=row|Bob Roberts

|1992

|Cutting edge head writer

|

scope=row|The Player

|1992

|Adam Simon

|

scope=row|Directors on Directors

|1997

|Himself

|Docuseries, Episode "Simon - Corman"

scope=row|Digging Up Bones

|2002

|Himself

|Featurette documentary

scope=row|Urban Gothic: Bones and Its Influences

|2002

|Himself

|Featurette documentary

scope=row|The Brains Behind the Nightmare

|2020

|Himself

|Featurette documentary

scope=row|Tales from the Cranium

|2020

|Himself

|Featurette documentary

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|id=0800048}}

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Category:1962 births

Category:Film directors from Illinois

Category:Living people

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