Charlie Picerni

Charlie Picerni was born in Corona Queens New York The fourth of five children to Italian parents After high school he worked different jobs one being construction work on highrise buildings in Manhattan He married at a young age his childhood girlfriend Marie He had a son after one year of marriage and decided he didnt want to work in construction anymore So he headed west to try his luck in the movie business His brother Paul Picerni was an actor on a hit TV show at that time called The Untouchables 1959 Charlie worked as a standin an extra and started doing stunt double work Charlie immediately fell in love with this work and moved his family to California Charlie excelled as a stuntman and then moved up to stuntcoordinating TV shows He got his big break on Starsky and Hutch 1975 he was the stunt coordinator and Paul Michael Glasers stunt double Aaron Spelling and Duke Vincent saw what direction Charlie was heading in Directing He started second unitdirecting Starsky and Hutch 1975 and then moved up to directing episodes of Starsky He continued stuntcoordinating and second unitdirecting such shows as Kojak 1973 and Magnum PI 1980 He then started directing television for producers Aaron Spelling Leonard Goldberg and Stephen J Cannell for such shows as TJ Hooker 1982 Matt Houston 1982 Vega 1978 Hardcastle and McCormick 1983 Hunter 1984 Stingray 1985 Finder of Lost Loves 1984 The ATeam 1983 JJ Starbuck 1987 Spenser For Hire 1985 Blue Thunder 1984 Gavilan 1982 and HBOs Tales from the Crypt 1989 At that time Charlie caught Warner Brothers producer Joel Silvers eye Joel hired Charlie to stuntcoordinate Die Hard 1988 This led to second unitdirecting and stuntcoordinating on the films Die Hard 2 1990 Road House 1989 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 Lethal Weapon 3 1992 Hudson Hawk 1991 National Lampoons Christmas Vacation 1989 The Last Boy Scout 1991 Demolition Man 1993 Ghost 1990 Ricochet 1991 Basic Instinct 1992 A Low Down Dirty Shame 1994 True Romance 1993 2 Days in the Valley 1996 15 Minutes 2001 and many more Charlie also during this time directed multiple episodes on a TV series called Seven Days 1998 for Paramount studios Charlie also worked as an actor in many TV and film projects throughout his career Realizing he wanted to further his career as a director he studied at the Beverly Hills Playhouse in the Master class for two years In 2007 he directed produced and cowrote a feature film entitled Three Days to Vegas 2007 starring Peter Falk Rip Torn and George Segal In 2010 Charlie directed Ayn Rands play Night of January 16th at the Odyssey Theatre to rave reviews While continuing to work in all avenues of the motion picture business he is developing and writing his own project called Spaghetti Park which he will produce and direct Charlie is a proud member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences