Person Details

Birthday: 1957-03-30 01:22:03

Aliases: Michael Stephen Lehmann , Michael Lehman

Gender: Male

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 16

TV Involvements: 33


Most Famous Work

Biography

Michael Stephen Lehmann (born March 30, 1957; San Francisco, California) is an American film and television director. Lehmann attended Columbia University. His first job in the film industry was answering phones at Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope film company. Later he supervised cameras on films that included 1983's The Outsiders. Lehmann attended film school at USC and graduated in 1985. While at USC he made a student film, Beaver Gets a Boner, the title of which he believes helped get the attention of film executives who would later hire him. Lehmann is probably most noted for directing the black comedy Heathers. He also directed 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Hudson Hawk, Meet the Applegates, Airheads and Because I Said So. Lehmann also directs for television, and has worked on the short lived HBO comedy series The Comeback and NBC's The West Wing. Lehmann has guest directed on The Larry Sanders Show, Watching Ellie and Century City. Recently, Lehmann has directed episodes of HBO dramas, Big Love and True Blood, as well as Showtime's Californication. Lehmann's upcoming films include Your Word Against Mine. At a Q & A session during 2007's South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, Lehmann claimed he would never make a sequel to Heathers. He claimed Winona Ryder wanted to do Heathers set in Washington, D.C., but he saw no potential for the project. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Lehmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

American Horror Story
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American Horror Story

(2011) Director
Dexter
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8

Dexter

(2006) Director
Snowfall
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9

Snowfall

(2017) Director
Scream Queens
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8

Scream Queens

(2015) Director
Californication
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8

Californication

(2007) Director
The West Wing
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8

The West Wing

(1999) Director
Boston Legal
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8

Boston Legal

(2004) Director
True Blood
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8

True Blood

(2008) Director

Acting

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2023 Co-Producer
2022 Co-Producer
2020 Executive Producer
2013 Associate Producer
2004 Consulting Producer
Producer
1994 Executive Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2022 Director
2018 Director
Director
2017 Director
2015 Director
Director
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Director
2011 Director
2010 Director
Director
2009 Director
Director
Director
2008 Director
Director
2007 Director
Director
Director
2006 Director
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2004 Director
Director
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Director
2002 Director
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2001 Director
1999 Director
1998 Director
1996 Director
1994 Director
1993 Director
Director
1992 Director
1991 Director
1990 Director
1989 Director
1985 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1990 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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