Jerry Sherlock

Jerry Sherlock is an American film and theater producer and educator known for such films as The Hunt for Red October. He was also the founder of the New York Film Academy School of Film and Acting. He resides in New York City. Early life and background Sherlock dropped out of school at the age of fourteen to join the carnival. From then on he was self-educated — he immersed himself in books published by the Modern Library, newspapers and magazines. After his time working with the circus he joined the United States Air Force, where he received an honorable discharge. Upon discharge, he started his career as a buyer for S. Klein On The Square (he would return to Union Square years later to house the New York Film Academy in the Tammany Hall Building), before eventually leaving to establish his own export business in Tokyo and Hong Kong. He returned to New York to start Amtec, a surplus textiles firm, where he became a partner, until the time he opted to change his career path and enter the world of film.