John Gertz

Producer

John Gertz is the president and CEO of Zorro Productions, Inc., which he founded in 1977.  He has been responsible for four Zorro motion pictures including Zorro, the Gay Blade (1982), The Mask of Zorro (1998), and The Legend of Zorro (2005), the two last ones starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta -Jones.  Also under his tenure, five different ZORRO TV series have been produced, as well as about twenty ZORRO stage productions.

Zorro Productions has executed over a thousand license agreements in such diverse areas as book and comic publishing, theme parks, commercial endorsements, apparel, food products, computer games and toys. Zorro Productions does business in many countries around the world through a network of some 35 agencies.  In 2005, together with world renowned author, Isabel Allende, Gertz released a novel about the genesis of ZORRO.  It hit the NY Times bestseller list has been published in some 30 languages.  Related to ZORRO, Gertz is currently producing a new live action TV series, a new animated TV series, a major new toy line, and three different theme park attractions.



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John Gertz