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David Gordon Green
Highest Rated: 91% Stronger (2017)
Lowest Rated: 5% Nature Calls (2012)
Birthday: Apr 9, 1975
Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
David Gordon Green's early directorial style had an emotionally haunting Southern Gothic edge to it. His films "George Washington" (2000), "All the Real Girls" (2003), and "Snow Angel" (2007) feature images of hospital clowns, gunshots at high school band practices, and a young boy whose skull never hardened. Green transitioned into comedic directing in 2008, but the craftsmanship and rural emphasis of his dramatic work remains in his more humorous work. Green was born on April 9, 1975 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he majored in film directing, graduating in 1998. It was there that Green met Paul Schneider, an actor and director best known for playing city planner Mark Brendanawicz on the first season of cult favorite sitcom "Parks and Recreation" (NBC 2009-15). Schneider starred in "George Washington," a film about a group of children struggling in a small North Carolina town that Green wrote, produced, and directed. The film met with critical acclaim, and Green received several festival recognitions as a rising young filmmaker. So began Green's career of creating emotional films featuring lost characters in rural American towns. Green became known for casting comedic actors, such as Sam Rockwell and Amy Sedaris, in dramatic roles. His transition to comedic directing began with the commercially successful "Pineapple Express" (2008). The film starred James Franco and Seth Rogen as stoners on the run, and it received fairly positive reviews. It also met with far more commercial success than Green's previous films. Green went on to direct twelve episodes of the baseball comedy "Eastbound & Down" (HBO 2009-2013), which starred "Pineapple Express" co-star Danny McBride, another friend from Green's college days. McBride starred in Green's next feature, a stoner comedy called "Your Highness" (2011), while "The Sitter" (2011) was a vehicle for Rogen and Franco's friend Jonah Hill. Green moved back into the quieter, more dramatic style of his earlier films with "Prince Avalanche" (2013), a road trip comedy-drama starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, and "Joe" (2014), a drama starring Nicolas Cage. He followed this with the character study "Manglehorn" (2014), starring Al Pacino, and the political satire "Our Brand Is Crisis" (2015). The fraternity hazing drama "Goat" (2016) and Boston Marathon drama "Stronger" (2017) continued Green's path toward small, intimate films, but he returned to a higher profile with "Halloween" (2018), a sequel to the 1980 original that ignored all of the several intervening films to pick up the story of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), 40 years after the events of the first film.
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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22% |
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The Exorcist: Believer |
Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$65.5M | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Metal Monsters: The Righteous Redeemer | Executive Producer | - | 2023 |
82% |
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Bones and All | Unknown (Character) | $7.8M | 2022 |
40% |
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Halloween Ends |
Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$64.0M | 2022 |
87% |
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent | Director (Character) | $20.2M | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The King of North Sudan | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
39% |
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Halloween Kills |
Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$92.0M | 2021 |
44% |
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Fatman | Executive Producer | $263.7K | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | City of Joel | Executive Producer | - | 2019 |
53% |
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An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn | Executive Producer | $5.2K | 2018 |
79% |
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Halloween |
Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$159.5M | 2018 |
28% |
|
The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter | Executive Producer | - | 2018 |
49% |
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Flower | Executive Producer | $327.4K | 2017 |
91% |
|
Stronger | Director | $4.2M | 2017 |
71% |
|
Dayveon | Executive Producer | $2.2K | 2017 |
79% |
|
Goat | Screenwriter | $23.0K | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Booger Red | Executive Producer | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet |
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Hot Sugar's Cold World | Executive Producer | - | 2015 |
36% |
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Our Brand Is Crisis | Director | $7.0M | 2015 |
50% |
|
Manglehorn |
Director, Producer |
$132.1K | 2014 |
74% |
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Camp X-Ray | Executive Producer | $9.8K | 2014 |
82% |
|
Land Ho! | Executive Producer | $727.4K | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trouble & the Shadowy Deathblow | Executive Producer | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
|
Person to Person | Executive Producer | - | 2014 |
86% |
|
Joe |
Director, Producer |
$371.9K | 2013 |
82% |
|
Prince Avalanche |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$205.0K | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
|
See Girl Run | Executive Producer | - | 2012 |
5% |
|
Nature Calls | Executive Producer | - | 2012 |
21% |
|
The Sitter | Director | $30.5M | 2011 |
47% |
|
The Catechism Cataclysm | Producer | $1.9K | 2011 |
27% |
|
Your Highness | Director | $21.6M | 2011 |
68% |
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Pineapple Express | Director | $87.3M | 2008 |
67% |
|
Snow Angels |
Director, Screenwriter |
$402.8K | 2007 |
88% |
|
Shotgun Stories | Producer | $45.7K | 2007 |
81% |
|
Great World of Sound | Producer | $21.6K | 2006 |
54% |
|
Undertow |
Director, Writer |
$124.2K | 2004 |
71% |
|
All the Real Girls |
Director, Writer |
$548.7K | 2003 |
84% |
|
George Washington |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$241.8K | 2000 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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96% | 94% | Telemarketers | Executive Producer | 2023 |
88% | 89% | The Righteous Gemstones |
Executive Producer, Director |
2019 2022-2023 |
97% | 85% | Mythic Quest |
Executive Producer, Director |
2020-2023 |
92% | 92% | Dickinson | Executive Producer | 2019 2021 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Tarantula | Executive Producer | 2017 |
83% | 71% | There's ... Johnny! | Executive Producer | 2017 |
83% | 87% | Vice Principals |
Executive Producer, Director |
2016-2017 |
93% | 92% | Red Oaks |
Executive Producer, Director |
2014-2017 |
29% | 85% | Chozen | Executive Producer | 2014 |
91% | 89% | Eastbound & Down | Director | 2009 2012 |
70% | No Score Yet | Good Vibes |
Executive Producer, Creator |
2011 |