Jerry Harvey

Jerry Harvey was born in the late 1940s and came from Bakersfield, California where he and his two sisters were raised in a strict Catholic home by a father who worked as an attorney and judge and a mother who was a hospital administrator. Harvey describes his childhood as not only unhappy but as a cross between "American Graffitti" and "Two Lane Blacktop". His sister Ann definitely committed suicide; she left her family a series of communications stating her reasons for taking her own life. His background left Harvey paranoid and in need of constant counseling. He fell in love with movies as a child and moved to Los Angeles in the late 1960s to attend UCLA. While on campus one day in 1971, he met Douglas Venturelli and became fast friends. Together, they wrote a western script that was produced in Europe and released with the title: "China 9, Liberty 37".