Biography
George Bowers (born April 20, 1944) is an American film director, editor and producer. Bowers was born in the Bronx, New York. As an editor, he has an extensive list of credits dating from 1968 to his latest film in 2008. As a director, he directed films such as Private Resort with Johnny Depp and My Tutor with Crispin Glover, the latter which is being remade. He started working at ABC directly out of high school as an assistant editor and frequently edits the films of Joseph Ruben Description...
Complete Filmography

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2008
Editor
When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

Walking Tall
2004
Editor
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

The Country Bears
2002
Editor
For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Cou...

From Hell
2001
Editor
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers...

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
1999
Editor
Deuce Bigalow is a less than attractive, down on his luck aquarium cleaner. One day he wrecks the house of a gigolo and needs quick money to repair it...

How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
Editor
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really li...

The Preacher's Wife
1996
Editor
Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived nei...

Money Train
1995
Editor
When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.

Renaissance Man
1994
Editor
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: te...

The Good Son
1993
Editor
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic be...

A League of Their Own
1992
Editor
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded ...

Sleeping with the Enemy
1991
Editor
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

Harlem Nights
1989
Editor
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of...

True Believer
1989
Editor
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has ...

Shoot to Kill
1988
Editor
When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city str...

The Stepfather
1987
Editor
Seemingly mild-mannered Henry Morrison — who has just murdered his entire family — quickly adopts a new identity and leaves town. After building a new...

Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986
Associate Producer
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown s...

Private Resort
1985
Director
Chasing women for the weekend at a luxurious Miami resort, teen buddies Ben and Jack get more than they bargained for after crossing paths with a craf...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984
Editor
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

My Tutor
1983
Director
High school senior Bobby Chrystal fails his French class, which will block him from entering Yale. His rich, authoritarian father hires an attractive ...

The Young Landlords
1983
Director
Four teen-age New York residents try to raise cash to improve a dilapidated building they brought for a dollar.

The Beach Girls
1982
Editor
School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, virgi...

Body and Soul
1981
Director
A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reali...

The Hearse
1980
Director
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.

Van Nuys Blvd.
1979
Editor
A small-town kid hears about the wild nights of cruising the boulevard in Van Nuys, California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved...

The Pom Pom Girls
1976
Editor
A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of t...

Countdown at Kusini
1976
Editor
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

The Sister in Law
1974
Editor
Robert and Edward are brothers involved in a web of adultery and deceit. They share Edward's wife and his mistress and a mission to deliver a package ...

Save the Children
1973
Editor
A concert film highlighted by performances from Marvin Gaye, Jerry Butler, and Roberta Flack.

Come Back, Charleston Blue
1972
Editor
Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston ...

A Fable
1971
Editor
A black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he eventually returns to violently besiege them inside th...