Jun Gallardo

Biographie

Jun Gallardo (also known by the nickname Jim Goldman or John Gale) was a Filipino B-movie director. He was the son of director Cesar Gallardo. His career started with martial arts films in the 70's before he moved to Z-actioners in the 80's. His films were often produced by Silver Star Film Company, a prolific producer known for making extremely low-budget action films, characterized by very low production values. Throughout his career Gallardo worked with numerous Z-grade stars such as Richard Harrison, Reb Brown, Gordon Mitchell, Christopher Mitchum, Jim Gaines, Mike Monty, Mike Cohen or Ronnie Patterson. He also worked once with Linda Blair on the movie SFX Retaliator (1987).