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Adam Simon was born on February 6, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Haunting in Connecticut (2009), Salem (2014) and Bones (2001).

Appearances in fiction

Adam Simon plays a humorous version of himself, pitching a project and getting barred from the studio lot in the famous opening-shot of Robert Altman's The Player (1992). He previously appeared, thinly veiled, as a fictional character in Christopher Guest's film The Big Picture (1989) and would reappear in Kim Newman's novel Johnny Alucard (2013), where he again pitches a project and becomes the only person in Hollywood standing up to a particularly sinister studio executive.

Kim Newman has noted that Adam Simon has "become one of the most oft-cited figures in contemporary Hollywood satire, and those in the know have begun to play the game of Simon-spotting. [...] Remarkable look- and act-alikes for Adam Simon have appeared in a couple of sinister Hollywood satires: Adam Rafkin (Jarrad Paul) on the cancelled-too-soon TV series Action, who ruins his emotional and physical health on successive drafts of Beverly Hills Gun Club for sleazy überproducer Peter Dragon (Jay Mohr); and Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, who finds his entire life - and film project - jeopardised when he considers going against the wishes of backers who represent either organised crime or Hell." 

Filmography

Writer

  • The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
  • Bones (2001)
  • The American Nightmare (2000)
  • The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (1996)
  • Carnosaur (1993) (screenplay)
  • Brain Dead

Director

  • The American Nightmare (2000)
  • The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (1996)
  • Carnosaur (1993)
  • Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger (1992)
  • Brain Dead (1990)

Producer

  • Salem (2013-ongoing) (executive producer)
  • The Spectre of Hope (2000)
  • Lock Up (1989) (co-producer)

Episodes Written

Season 1

Season 2

Gallery

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