Joseph Merhi
Born: 1953-10-23 in Syria
Known For: Production
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph Toufik Merhi (born October 23, 1953) in Syria, is an indie film director and producer. In 1984, along with fellow director Richard Pepin, Merhi founded the production company City Lights, which changed name a few years after to PM Entertainment. The company was sold in 2000 and closed soon after. Before entering the movie industry, Merhi was the owner of several pizzerias located in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. So far, he has directed a total of 32 movies, and produced more than 100. He has produced many movies. He is well known for his action scenes involving car chases and big explosions. His last directed movie was Executive Target (1997). After that, he decided to leave the director chair and slowly moved on as a producer/executive producer of straight-to-DVD movies, until he returned to direct Oranges (2008) ten years after his last effort. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Merhi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2008
- Impulse ... (Executive Producer)
2007
- Game of Life ... (Writer)
- The Anna Nicole Smith Story ... (Executive Producer)
2005
- Back By Midnight ... (Producer)
2004
- The Whole Ten Yards ... (Co-Producer)
- Spartan ... (Co-Producer)
2003
- Alex & Emma ... (Co-Producer)
1999
- L.A. Heat ... (Executive Producer)
- Inferno ... (Executive Producer)
- Running Red ... (Executive Producer)
- Y2K ... (Producer)
- No Tomorrow ... (Producer)
- Escape from Alaska ... (Producer)
1998
- The Sender ... (Producer)
- Recoil ... (Producer)
- Extramarital ... (Producer)
- Land of the Free ... (Executive Producer)
1997
- Dark Breed ... (Producer)
- Executive Target ... (Producer)
- Busted ... (Producer)
- The Big Fall ... (Producer)
- The Underground ... (Producer)
- Little Bigfoot ... (Producer)
- Hollywood Safari ... (Executive Producer)
- Dumb Luck in Vegas ... (Producer)
1996
- Skyscraper ... (Producer)
- The Sweeper ... (Director)
- Tiger Heart ... (Producer)
- The Silencers ... (Producer)
- Riot ... (Director)
- Pure Danger ... (Producer)
1995
- Last Man Standing ... (Writer)
- To the Limit ... (Producer)
- Hologram Man ... (Producer)
- Ring of Fire III: Lion Strike ... (Producer)
- Steel Frontier ... (Producer)
- CyberTracker 2 ... (Producer)
- Rage ... (Director)
- The Power Within ... (Producer)
- Cell Block Sisters: Banished Behind Bars ... (Executive Producer)
1994
- Storybook ... (Executive Producer)
- Deadly Target ... (Producer)
- Guardian Angel ... (Producer)
- T-Force ... (Producer)
- Zero Tolerance ... (Producer)
- CyberTracker ... (Producer)
- Ice ... (Producer)
- Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter ... (Producer)
- Direct Hit ... (Director)
1993
- To Be the Best ... (Director)
- Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel ... (Producer)
- Firepower ... (Producer)
- C.I.A. II: Target Alexa ... (Producer)
- Alien Intruder ... (Producer)
- Private Wars ... (Producer)
- Magic Kid ... (Director)
- No Escape, No Return ... (Producer)
- Fist of Honor ... (Producer)
1992
- Maximum Force ... (Director)
- Deadly Bet ... (Writer)
- Out for Blood ... (Producer)
- Final Impact ... (Director)
- C.I.A. Code Name: Alexa ... (Director)
- Intent to Kill ... (Story)
- Street Crimes ... (Producer)
- The Last Riders ... (Producer)
1991
- Ring of Fire ... (Producer)
- Quiet Fire ... (Producer)
- A Time to Die ... (Producer)
- The Art of Dying as Marlo
- Blood Money ... (Producer)
- The Killing Zone ... (Producer)
1990
- Repo Jake ... (Producer)
- Living To Die ... (Producer)
- Night of the Wilding ... (Producer)
- Coldfire ... (Producer)
- Contra Conspiracy ... (Producer)
- American Born ... (Producer)
- Emperor of the Bronx ... (Director)
- Sinners ... (Producer)
- Chance ... (Producer)
1989
- L.A. Heat ... (Director)
- Deadly Breed ... (Producer)
- Angels of the City ... (Writer)
- Shotgun ... (Producer)
- Midnight Warrior ... (Director)
- East L.A. Warriors ... (Producer)
- L.A. Vice ... (Director)
1988
- Heat Street ... (Producer)
- Epitaph ... (Producer)
- Hollow Gate ... (Producer)
- Death by Dialogue ... (Producer)
- L.A. Crackdown II ... (Director)
- Fresh Kill ... (Writer)
- The Killing Game ... (Director)
- The Glass Jungle ... (Producer)
- The Newlydeads ... (Director)
- Payback ... (Producer)
1987
- L.A. Crackdown as Speed
- Dance or Die ... (Producer)
1986
- Mayhem ... (Producer)
- Hollywood In Trouble ... (Writer)