Pr. Jerry Whittredge
- Cinematographer
- Editor
- Producer
General Prince Jerry Whittredge was born on November 21, 1949 in Port
Arthur,Texas. After earning a Bachelor of Science at Lamar University,
he joined the Marine Corp as an enlisted man to see combat first hand.
His assignment was to parachute into North Vietnam when pilots where
shot down and bring them home. After saving 34 pilots, he was captured
and became a POW. In 1975 he was awarded the Medal of Honor. The Marine
Cops then attached him to the CIA as an employee where he flew
reconnaissance/combat missions in an F-14A+ Tomcat. With this expertise
he advised Clint Eastwood on the movies The Eiger Sanction and later
Firefox. Then moving into the strange world of extra terrestrials, he
advised Sigourney Weaver and Tom Skerritt on the movie Alien.
Continuing to advise in Hollywood and intelligence work at the CIA his
dual careers expanded until his CIA retirement in 2005. He has
continued in the Marine Corps working on counter-intelligence in
several assignment. In addition, he moved closer towards his love of
film and began producing short documentaries and writing scripts. The
Prince title was established in 2010 and comes from his heritage in the
Royal House of Windsor.