Jerry Bruckheimer is a prolific American film and television producer born in 1943 in Detroit. He got his start in the late 1960s producing commercials in New York before transitioning to film production in the 1970s. Some of his most successful early films included Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Top Gun (1986), and the Bad Boys franchise. Bruckheimer also found great success producing the CSI franchise and spinoffs for CBS beginning in 2000. More recently he has overseen blockbuster franchises like Pirates of the Caribbean and National Treasure. Though some of his 2010s films and shows were not as successful, Bruckheimer remains one of Hollywood's most influential producers.

1. Jerry Bruckheimer - Producer
Overview & Summary
Jerry Bruckheimer is a film and TV producer born on September 21st,
1943 In
Detroit, he graduated fromhigh schoolin 1961 beforemoving to Arizona. He
started his career in 1968 to producecommercials and advertising for the firm
BBD&O in New York
He left the commercial industry, and branched out into film production and
served as associate producer for Dick Richards on the films The Culpepper
Cattle Co. (1972) and Rafferty and the Gold DustTwins (1975). Hestarted out
his production company Jerry Bruckheimer & Associates and then served as
producer on the following two films Farewell, My Lovely (1975) and March or
Die (1977) beforethe duo brokeup. He then became an independent
producer, serving his job on his films American Gigolo (1980), Defiance(1980),
Thief (1981), CatPeople (1982) and Young Doctors in Love(1982) throughout
the early 1980s, for oneof their major studios. In 1979, Don Simpson met
Bruckheimer while working on "American Gigolo" for Paramount. In 1982,
Simpson left ParamountPictures to start out its own independent company
with a deal at Paramount, and weeks later, Simpson's production services were
merged with Bruckheimer's. During his lifetime, he produced films in the 80s
and 90s for Paramountlike Flashdance(1983), Thief of Hearts (1984), Beverly
Hills Cop (1984) and its sequel Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Top Gun (1986) and
Days of Thunder (1990), mostof them met with success.
After the minor failure of "Days of Thunder", Simpson and Bruckheimer
severed its ties with Paramount, and signed a deal with The Walt Disney
Studios. In the mid 90s, both Simpson and Bruckheimer produced The
Ref (1994), Bad Boys (1995), Crimson Tide(1995), DangerousMinds (1995)
and The Rock (1996). In 1995,Simpson and Bruckheimer terminated its
relationship, and the next year Simpson died.
Bruckheimer expanded its activity on television with a deal at Touchstone
Television. He produced two shows Dangerous Minds (1996)for ABC
and Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1997) for Rysher Entertainmentand TV affiliates
and two telepics Max Q: Emergency Landing (1998) and Swing Vote(1999),

2. both for ABC.
The next few Bruckheimer productions after Simpson died in the late 90s and
the early 2000s were Con Air (1997), Armageddon (1998), Enemy of the
State (1998), Gonein Sixty Seconds (2000) and CoyoteUgly (2000). In 1998, he
established Technical Black Films to producethe film Remember the
Titans (2000). In 1999, his Bruckheimer production company signed a deal
with Ridley Scott and Tony Scott's Scott Free Productions to producefilms over
a two year period.
In 2000, Bruckheimer hitbig with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000). The
success of the show led to spinoffs CSI: Miami(2002), CSI: NY(2004) and CSI:
Cyber (2015). Hefollowed the franchiseup with the reality show The Amazing
Race (2001), of which it is also an success madeBruckheimer a major producer
for the CBS network. In 2001, hesigned a deal with Warner Bros. Television to
produceTV shows. Hefollowed up his TV career with Without a Trace (2002)
and Cold Case (2003).
In 2001, heproduced two war films Pearl Harbor (2001) and Black Hawk
Down (2001). Theformer received negative critical reaction, and the latter
gained them critical acclaim. He followed up in 2002 with Bad Company (2002).
Throughoutthe 2000s, Bruckheimer was an active entertainment producer,
working on the films Kangaroo Jack (2003), Veronica Guerin (2003), King
Arthur (2004), Glory Road (2006), Deja Vu (2006), Confessions of a
Shopaholic (2009) and G-Force(2009) for Disney Studios, and theTV
shows Profiles fromthe FrontLine (2003), Skin (2003), E-Ring (2005), Just
Legal (2005), Closeto Home (2005), Justice(2006), Eleventh Hour (2008),Dark
Blue (2009) and TheForgotten (2009).
He is the creative forcefor franchisefilms. In 2003, hemade a sequel to his
"Bad Boys", Bad Boys II (2003) and Bad Boys for Life (2020), and he launched
the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, starting with Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), and spawning sequels like Pirates of the
Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), Pirates of theCaribbean: At World's
End (2007), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and Pirates of
the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (2017) and the"National Treasure" franchise,
comprising of two films National Treasure(2004) and NationalTreasure: Book
of Secrets (2007).

3. In 2007, hehad to partner with MTV to create a game studio, and joined the
ZeniMax board of directors. In 2009, helaunched Jerry Bruckheimer Games,
and by 2011 rumored to be worked on three titles, before it was shutdown in
2013.
By the 2010s, hewas in declining force, and his films Princeof Persia: The
Sands of Time (2010), TheSorcerer's Apprentice(2010), TheLoneRanger
(2013), 12 Strong (2018) and GeminiMan (2019) areturned out to be box
office disappointments, and his TV shows MiamiMedical (2010), Jerry
Bruckheimer's Chase(2010), TheWhole Truth (2010), Hostages (2013),
Training Day (2017) and Councilof Dads (2020) turned outto be failures after
one season.
In 2013, hesigned a deal with ParamountPictures to produce follow-up films
to "Top Gun" and "Beverly Hills Cop" and their deal with Disney ended. Three
years later, he terminated its deal with Warner Bros. Television and a year
later signed with CBS Television Studios. His minor box office success rolled in
with Deliver Us fromEvil (2014). His only big TV hits came in from the decade
were Lucifer (2016) and L.A.'s Finest(2019).
Bruckheimer was named as one of the investors of a proposed sports arena in
Las Vegas, and had been rumored to be the leading choice by the National
Hockey League (NHL) to own an expansion hockey team that would play in the
arena. Bruckheimer was also named as one of the investors of a proposed
Seattle-based NHL expansion team whoseapplication was submitted in early
2018. TheNHL Board of Governors voted to approvethe team, named the
Seattle Kraken, on December 4, 2018, which willstart play in the 2021-22
season. Jerry Bruckheimer was partof an investment group that also included
Tim Leiweke (Oak View Group) and David Bonderman (minority owner NBA's
Boston Celtics).