Jerry Herbert Tokofsky (born April 14, 1936) is an American agent, film producer, and studio executive.
[1] Tokofsky began his connection with the film business as an agent, and by the 1960s had become a studio executive at Columbia Pictures.
[4] Harrison Ford had an early onscreen role as a bellhop in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), on which Tokofsky worked.
[5] By 1968, Tokofsky had become head of Columbia’s creative affairs department, which had the tasks of evaluating scripts and overseeing actors, directors, and producers.
[8] In 1986, at the suggestion of Irvin Kershner, Tokofsky and Stanley Zupnik paid David Mamet one million dollars for the film rights to his award-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross,[9] but it took them several years to raise the money to make the film, as no major studio would touch it.