Gale Anne Hurd

Gale Anne Hurd born October 25 1955 is an American film and television producer the founder of Valhalla Entertainment formerly Pacific Western Productions and a former recording secretary for the Producers Guild of America She joined New World Pictures as executive assistant to Roger Corman the company president She worked her way up through various administrative positions and eventually became involved in production She formed her own production company Pacific Western Productions in 1982 and went on to produce a number of boxoffice hits including the James Cameron films The Terminator 1984 the screenplay for which she cowrote with Cameron her sole screenwriting credit Aliens 1986 and The Abyss 1989 In 2010 the drama series she produced The Walking Dead began airing on AMC Description above from the Wikipedia article Gale Anne Hurd licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia