notes=Producer JERRY LEIDER marks his fourth collaboration with producer Robert Shapiro on "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen." Together they have also produced Disney's "Cadet Kelly," "My Favorite Martian," and "Dr. Jekyll %26 Ms. Hyde."
Most recently, Leider, in partnership with Richard Waltzer, produced "Coast to Coast" for Showtime Pictures.  He is also serving as co-executive producer of the new live action family series "Mythquest" for PBS. He has also served as executive producer on "Payne" and produced USA Network's TV movie "Trucks" based on a short story by Stephen King.
Prior to executive producing two films for CBS TV, adaptations of novelist Laverle Spencer's "Home Songs" and "Family Blessing," Leider was Chairman and CEO of ITC Entertainment Group, the worldwide film and television production and distribution company. He spearheaded a turnaround in that company's feature production program, and during his tenure, nine theatrical features opened, including the Academy AwardŽ nominee "Sophie's Choice," "The Dark Crystal," the critically acclaimed cult thriller "The Stepfather," and "Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael," introducing Winona Ryder in her first starring role.
Additionally, more than thirty television and cable movies were produced and aired on all three networks, HBO, and Showtime while Leider headed ITC, including the highly rated "Malice in Wonderland" starring Elizabeth Taylor, and the critically acclaimed and multi-award winning dramas "David" and "Unnatural Causes." During that time, ITC was also responsible for the high-profile network mini-series "The Billionaire Boys Club," "Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story," and "Sidney Sheldon's Windmills of the Gods."
Through his own independent production company, Leider has produced a number of feature films including "The Jazz Singer," starring Neil Diamond and Sir Lawrence Olivier, and "Trenchcoat" for Walt Disney Pictures. His many network TV movie executive producer credits under his own banner include "Willa" starring Deborah Raffin, Alistair MacLean's "Hostage Tower," and "And I Alone Survived," starring Blair Brown.
Born in Camden, New Jersey, Leider was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in Drama to Bristol University in England. He worked for several years as a producer on Broadway and in London. Among his Broadway successes were Sir John Gielgud's outstanding one-man show "Ages of Man," "The Visit" starring Alfred Lund and Lynn Fontanne, and the Broadway musical "Shinbone Alley." In London, Leider produced the West End debut of Tennessee William's play "Suddenly Last Summer."
Leider joined the CBS Television Network in 1960 as Director of Special Programs and Program Sales and, in 1962, became Partner and Vice President in Charge of Worldwide Television Operations with Ashley Famous Agency, Inc. (now ICM), a post he held for seven years.
Moving to Los Angeles in 1969, Leider became President of Warner Bros. Television, over which he presided for five years. It was during his tenure that Warner Bros. regained its former prominence in network TV production with such long-running series as "The FBI," "Kung Fu," "Harry O," "Wonder Woman," and "Alice." In 1975, Leider started his career in the feature film world when he took the Warner Bros. position of Executive Vice President in Charge of Foreign Production, based in Rome, Italy, where he supervised the financing and production of fifteen theatrical features in England, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, including the Academy AwardŽ-winning French film "Madame Rosa," which starred Simone Signoret.
Leider is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He was a three-term chairman of the Caucus of Producers, Writers, and Directors and past president of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. He has been a frequent visiting professor at the USC and UCLA Film Schools and guest lecturer at the Newhouse School of Film and Television at Syracuse University.
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