Gene Quintano is a renowned American screenwriter and film director who embarked on a film career unexpectedly. Prior to his venture into the film industry, he was a successful salesman and later owned an office supply company. A business partnership with film director Tony Anthony led to their collaboration on the western "Comin' at Ya!" (1981),which was released in 3-D and became a surprise box office hit due to its novelty aspect of 3-D, capitalizing on the curiosity of younger film fans who had not experienced the 3-D craze of the 1950s.
Quintano and Anthony subsequently worked together on Cannon Film's action adventure film "Treasure of the Four Crowns" (1983),which was criticized for being overly derivative of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981),including the iconic scene featuring a rolling boulder. Despite this, Cannon entrusted Quintano with scripting several other films, including the adventure film "King Solomon's Mines" (1985) and its sequel "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold" (1986).
Quintano's next notable project was as a screenwriter for the popular comedy film series "Police Academy". He was the sole credited screenwriter for two films in the series: "Police Academy 3: Back in Training" (1986) and "Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol" (1987).
Quintano made his directing debut with the spy comedy "Honeymoon Academy" (1989) and went on to direct the caper film "Why Me?" (1990),the parody film "Loaded Weapon 1" (1993),and the western "Dollar for the Dead" (1998). He continued to work as a screenwriter, notably on the Vietnam war-themed comedy "Operation Dumbo Drop" (1995). His last known script was the comedy film "Funky Monkey" (2004).
