Paul E. Gierucki

Detroit Michigan native Paul E. Gierucki is a motion picture producer, director, writer, film historian and preservationist. His works have appeared on the Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E), AMC, Cinemax, HBO, NBC, and Turner Classic Movies. As president of Laughsmith Entertainment, Gierucki produced and directed the A&E Biography program Stooges: The Men Behind The Mayhem (1994), as well as the critically acclaimed DVD collections The Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle (2004), and Industrial Strength Keaton (2005). In 2010, Gierucki made international headlines with his discovery of a previously unknown film appearance by silent comedy master Charles Chaplin. Gierucki recovered the lone known surviving 16mm film print of A Thief Catcher (1914), in which Chaplin makes a lengthy cameo appearance as one of the famed Keystone Cops. As of 2011, Gierucki has been the director of restorations for CineMuseum, LLC. He curated and directed the reconstruction of 100 classic comedy