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About
Gérard Depardieu
Overview
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, film-maker, businessman and vineyard owner. He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history, having completed approximately 170 movies since 1967. He has twice won the César Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in Green Card. After he garnered huge critical acclaim for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, which landed him a nomination for an Academy Award, Depardieu acted in many big budget Hollywood movies. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite. He was granted citizenship of Russia in January 2013 and the same month became a cultural ambassador of Montenegro. In 2015 he left Russia declaring that he intends to give up the citizenship and to live in Belgium.
Depardieu has been repeatedly accused of sexual assault. The French authorities have charged him with rape and, since 2021, have had him under formal investigation. Depardieu has denied any wrongdoing and has not been convicted in connection with any of the accusations against him. He was stripped of the National Order of Quebec in 2023.
Known for
Acting |
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2023 | L'Âge d'or de la pub | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2023 | Unami | Actor | Gabriel Carvin | N/A N/A |
2023 | Umami | Actor | Gabriel | 58 Average |
2022 | The King’s Favorite | Actor | Nostradamus | 68 Fair |
2022 | The Green Shutters | Actor | Jules Maugin | 58 Average |
2022 | Employee of the Month | Actor | Gérard Depardieu | 59 Average |
2022 | Patrick Dewaere, My Hero | Actor | Self (archive footage) - actor | 59 Average |
2022 | Robust | Actor | George | 58 Average |
2022 | Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70 | Actor | Self - actor | 59 Average |
2022 | Maigret | Actor | Jules Maigret | 58 Average |
2022 | Retirement Home | Actor | Lino Vartan | 58 Average |
2022 | Adieu Paris | Actor | Michael | 57 Average |
2022 | La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
2021 | Lost Illusions | Actor | Dauriat | 66 Fair |
2021 | Sous le soleil de Pialat | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2021 | Do You Do You Saint-Tropez | Actor | Maurice Lefranc | 56 Average |
2021 | Un homme d'honneur | Actor | Bruno Riva | 68 Fair |
2020 | Creators: The Past | Actor | Master of Faith | 57 Average |
2020 | Home Front | Actor | Feu-de-Bois | 58 Average |
2019 | Fahim | Actor | Sylvain Charpentier | 61 Fair |
2019 | Thalasso | Actor | Gérard Depardieu | 58 Average |
2019 | Crystal Frog | Actor | Benjamin | 59 Average |
2019 | André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema | Actor | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2019 | Wide Load | Actor | Taupin | 55 Average |
2018 | To the Ends of the World | Actor | Saintonge | 59 Average |
2018 | The Brand New Adventures of Aladdin | Actor | Christopher Colombus | 54 Average |
2018 | Gérard de par le monde - Japon | Actor | lui-même | 69 Fair |
2018 | Saving My Pig | Actor | Vania | N/A N/A |
2018 | Private Eye | Actor | Camionneur | 59 Average |
2018 | Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2018 | The Other Woman | Actor | Patrick | 56 Average |
2018 | Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero | Actor | Gaston Baptiste (voice) | 64 Fair |
2017 | Carbone | Actor | Aron Goldstein | 62 Fair |
2017 | Michel Sardou – Dernier show | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2017 | Mečiar: The Lust For Power | Actor | 58 Average |
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2017 | Let the Sunshine In | Actor | Clairvoyant | 56 Average |
2017 | À la recherche de... Pierre Richard | Actor | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 58 Average |
2017 | Nobody's Perfect! | Actor | Gérard, dit Bonne Pomme | 58 Average |
2017 | You Only Live Once | Actor | Duges | 58 Average |
2017 | Mata Hari | Actor | Abbé Busoni | 68 Fair |
2016 | French Tour | Actor | Serge | 58 Average |
2016 | Stalin's Couch | Actor | Joseph Staline | 58 Average |
2016 | A Mighty Team | Actor | Jacques Belloch | 58 Average |
2016 | Saint Amour | Actor | Jean | 58 Average |
2016 | The End | Actor | L'homme | 58 Average |
2016 | Rhapsody | Actor | Gérard | 59 Average |
2016 | Beyond Metal | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2015 | Le Magicien et les Siamois | Actor | Borach | N/A N/A |
2015 | Agafia | Actor | Savka | N/A N/A |
2015 | Le Rustre et le Juge | Actor | Charpentevich | N/A N/A |
2015 | Bon appetit: Gérard Depardieu's Europe | Actor | Himself | 69 Fair |
2015 | Valley of Love | Actor | Gérard | 59 Average |
2015 | Fifty Shades of Erotica | Actor | 59 Average |
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2015 | Bain de minuit | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2014 | Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes | Actor | He (segment 'Two, Deux') | 59 Average |
2014 | Viktor | Actor | Victor Lambert | 58 Average |
2014 | Welcome to New York | Actor | Devereaux | 57 Average |
2014 | The Term. Beginning of a Big Story | Actor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 58 Average |
2014 | Duras and Cinema | Actor | Self [archive footage] | N/A N/A |
2014 | United Passions | Actor | Jules Rimet | 56 Average |
2014 | La voix des steppes | Actor | Anatole | N/A N/A |
2014 | Retour au Caucase: Gérard Depardieu dans les pas d'Alexandre Dumas | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
2014 | Obsessive Rythms | Actor | Père Villedieu | 58 Average |
2013 | The World Petanque Tour | Actor | Jacky | 57 Average |
2013 | Miserere | Actor | Lionel Kasdan | 59 Average |
2013 | Nothing Can Stop Us Now | Actor | Henry | 58 Average |
2013 | A Farewell to Fools | Actor | Ipu | 58 Average |
2013 | Turf | Actor | Monsieur Paul | 57 Average |
2012 | The Man Who Laughs | Actor | Ursus | 59 Average |
2012 | Life of Pi | Actor | Cook | 73 Good |
2012 | Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia | Actor | Obélix | 53 Average |
2012 | Frank-Etienne Towards Beatitude | Actor | Frank-Étienne Boulard | 59 Average |
2012 | My Sinful Angel | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2012 | The Big Night | Actor | Juvénal | 58 Average |
2011 | Rasputin | Actor | Grigori Raspoutine | 58 Average |
2011 | Fucking Kassovitz | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2011 | Glenn, the Flying Robot | Actor | TV reporter | 58 Average |
2011 | A Butterfly Kiss | Actor | le médecin de Manon | 58 Average |
2011 | Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres | Actor | Self (archive footage) | N/A N/A |
2011 | A Frog in Winter | Actor | Benjamin | 59 Average |
2010 | Small World | Actor | Conrad Lang | 59 Average |
2010 | Trophy Wife | Actor | Maurice Babin | 59 Average |
2010 | Late Love | Actor | Gueorgui | N/A N/A |
2010 | My Afternoons with Margueritte | Actor | Germain | 62 Fair |
2010 | Mammuth | Actor | Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth | 58 Average |
2010 | Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
2010 | The Great Restaurant | Actor | Gérard - un client du restaurant | 58 Average |
2010 | The Other Dumas | Actor | Alexandre Dumas | 59 Average |
2009 | In the Beginning | Actor | Abel | 60 Fair |
2009 | Coco | Actor | Le cardiologue | 50 Average |
2009 | Gérard Depardieu, blessures secrètes | Actor | Gérard Depardieu | N/A N/A |
2009 | Diamond 13 | Actor | Mat | 58 Average |
2009 | Bellamy | Actor | Paul Bellamy | 58 Average |
2009 | L'Abolition | Actor | Henry Torrès | 58 Average |
2008 | The Beaches of Agnès | Actor | Le beatnik (archive footage) | 62 Fair |
2008 | Trouble at Timpetill | Actor | Le général Igor | 59 Average |
2008 | Hello Goodbye | Actor | Alain Gaash | 58 Average |
2008 | Final Arrangements | Actor | Hugo | 58 Average |
2008 | Mesrine: Killer Instinct | Actor | Guido | 68 Fair |
2008 | Babylon A.D. | Actor | Gorsky | 57 Average |
2008 | The Easy Way | Actor | Le chef | 59 Average |
2008 | Disco | Actor | Jean-François | 52 Average |
2008 | Kings Can Do Everything | Actor | 58 Average |
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2008 | Asterix at the Olympic Games | Actor | Obélix | 53 Average |
2007 | L'abbuffata | Actor | Gérard Depardieu | 59 Average |
2007 | Lebo, l'ombre et la lumière | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2007 | Michou d'Auber | Actor | Georges | 59 Average |
2007 | La Vie en Rose | Actor | Louis Leplée | 70 Good |
2006 | The Singer | Actor | Alain Moreau | 59 Average |
2006 | Journey of the Dissidents | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
2006 | Paris Je T'aime | Actor | Le patron (Quartier Latin) | 64 Fair |
2006 | Last Holiday | Actor | Chef Didier | 66 Fair |
2005 | Olé ! | Actor | François Veber | 58 Average |
2005 | Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2005 | How Much Do You Love Me? | Actor | Charly | 58 Average |
2005 | Boudu | Actor | Boudu | 57 Average |
2005 | Let's Be Friends | Actor | Serge | 58 Average |
2005 | La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre | Actor | Gérard Depardieu | 58 Average |
2004 | Changing Times | Actor | Antoine Lavau | 58 Average |
2004 | Volpone | Actor | Volpone | 58 Average |
2004 | 36th Precinct | Actor | Denis Klein | 64 Fair |
2004 | Battle of the Brave | Actor | Father Thomas Blondeau | 59 Average |
2004 | San Antonio | Actor | l'inspecteur Bérurier | 57 Average |
2004 | La Femme Musketeer | Actor | Cardinal Mazarin | N/A N/A |
2004 | The Lady Musketeer | Actor | Cardinal Mazarin | 66 Fair |
2004 | RRRrrrr!!! | Actor | Le chef des Cheveux Sales | 61 Fair |
2003 | The Car Keys | Actor | Cheesemaker | 57 Average |
2003 | Ruby & Quentin | Actor | Quentin | 63 Fair |
2003 | Nathalie... | Actor | Bernard | 58 Average |
2003 | Bon Voyage | Actor | Jean-Étienne Beaufort | 59 Average |
2003 | Crime Spree | Actor | Daniel Foray | 58 Average |
2003 | The Pact of Silence | Actor | Joachim | 58 Average |
2002 | A Loving Father | Actor | Léo Shepherd | 58 Average |
2002 | Ruy Blas | Actor | Don Salluste | 59 Average |
2002 | Napoleon | Actor | Joseph Fouché | 69 Fair |
2002 | Blanche | Actor | D'Artagnan | 58 Average |
2002 | City of Ghosts | Actor | Emile | 58 Average |
2002 | Between Strangers | Actor | Max | 58 Average |
2002 | How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
2002 | A Day in the Life of French Cinema | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2002 | I Am Dina | Actor | Jacob | 58 Average |
2002 | Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra | Actor | Obélix | 72 Good |
2001 | Streghe verso nord | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2001 | Vidocq | Actor | Vidocq | 58 Average |
2001 | CQ | Actor | Andrezej | 58 Average |
2001 | Unfair Competition | Actor | Professor Angelo | 60 Fair |
2001 | The Closet | Actor | Félix Santini | 61 Fair |
2000 | The Envy of Gods | Actor | Bernard | 58 Average |
2000 | 102 Dalmatians | Actor | Jean Pierre Le Pelt | 55 Average |
2000 | Bérénice | Actor | Titus | N/A N/A |
2000 | Les Misérables | Actor | Jean Valjean | 69 Fair |
2000 | Vatel | Actor | Francois Vatel | 59 Average |
2000 | Actors | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2000 | Tutto l'amore che c'è | Actor | Molotov | 59 Average |
2000 | Mirka | Actor | Strix | N/A N/A |
1999 | Balzac: A Life of Passion | Actor | Honoré de Balzac | 58 Average |
1999 | Balzac | Actor | Honoré de Balzac | 70 Good |
1999 | The Bridge | Actor | Georges | 58 Average |
1999 | Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar | Actor | Obélix | 59 Average |
1998 | Bimboland | Actor | Laurent Gaspard | 57 Average |
1998 | Junket Whore | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1998 | Le Comte de Monte Christo | Actor | Edmond Dantès / Comte de Monte Christo | 59 Average |
1998 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Actor | Edmond Dantès | 71 Good |
1998 | Notes of Love | Actor | Levi | 59 Average |
1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Actor | Porthos | 65 Fair |
1997 | XXL | Actor | Jean Bourdalou | 58 Average |
1997 | Pitch | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
1997 | Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1996 | Hamlet | Actor | Reynaldo | 65 Fair |
1996 | The Best Job in the World | Actor | Laurent Monier | 58 Average |
1996 | The Secret Agent | Actor | Ossipon | 58 Average |
1996 | Bogus | Actor | Bogus | 58 Average |
1996 | Unhook the Stars | Actor | Big Tommy | 59 Average |
1995 | The Son Of... | Actor | Gerard | 59 Average |
1995 | Guardian Angels | Actor | Carco / M. Ciccolini / La « bonne conscience » | 59 Average |
1995 | The Horseman on the Roof | Actor | Police commissioner of Manosque | 60 Fair |
1995 | Elisa | Actor | Jacques 'Lébovitch', Marie's father | 59 Average |
1995 | One Hundred and One Nights | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1994 | Colonel Chabert | Actor | Chabert | 59 Average |
1994 | The Machine | Actor | Dr. Marc Lacroix | 58 Average |
1994 | A Pure Formality | Actor | Onoff | 65 Fair |
1994 | My Father the Hero | Actor | Andre | 57 Average |
1993 | Germinal | Actor | Toussaint Maheu | 62 Fair |
1993 | Oh, Woe Is Me | Actor | Simon Donnadieu | 59 Average |
1993 | François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
1992 | 1492: Conquest of Paradise | Actor | Christopher Columbus | 61 Fair |
1991 | All the Mornings of the World | Actor | Marin Marais | 61 Fair |
1991 | My Father the Hero | Actor | André Arnel | 58 Average |
1991 | Thank You, Life | Actor | Marc Antoine Worms | 59 Average |
1990 | Green Card | Actor | Georges Faure | 59 Average |
1990 | Uranus | Actor | Léopold | 60 Fair |
1990 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Actor | Cyrano de Bergerac | 67 Fair |
1989 | Too Beautiful for You | Actor | Bernard Barthélémy | 59 Average |
1989 | I Want to Go Home | Actor | Christian Gauthier | 58 Average |
1989 | Deux | Actor | Marc Lambert | 58 Average |
1988 | Camille Claudel | Actor | Auguste Rodin | 60 Fair |
1988 | Strange Place for an Encounter | Actor | Charles | 58 Average |
1987 | Under the Sun of Satan | Actor | Donissan | 59 Average |
1986 | The Fugitives | Actor | Jean Lucas | 62 Fair |
1986 | The Way Out | Actor | Father of Clara | 59 Average |
1986 | Jean de Florette | Actor | Jean Cadoret, hunchback, son of Florette | 68 Fair |
1986 | Ménage | Actor | Bob | 61 Fair |
1985 | Police | Actor | Louis Vincent Mangin | 59 Average |
1985 | Vivement Truffaut | Actor | Self / Bernard (archive footage) | 58 Average |
1985 | One Woman or Two | Actor | Julien Chayssac | 58 Average |
1984 | 17ème jour de tournage du film "Police" | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
1984 | Rive droite, rive gauche | Actor | Paul Senanques | 58 Average |
1984 | Le Tartuffe | Actor | Tartuffe | 59 Average |
1984 | Fort Saganne | Actor | Charles Saganne | 59 Average |
1983 | The ComDads | Actor | Jean Lucas | 62 Fair |
1983 | The Moon in the Gutter | Actor | Gérard Delmas - un docker hanté par le suicide de sa soeur | 58 Average |
1983 | Danton | Actor | Georges Danton | 61 Fair |
1982 | The Big Brother | Actor | Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo | 59 Average |
1982 | The Return of Martin Guerre | Actor | Arnaud du Tilh | 61 Fair |
1981 | Droit de Réponse | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1981 | La Chèvre | Actor | Campana, private detective | 65 Fair |
1981 | The Woman Next Door | Actor | Bernard Coudray | 63 Fair |
1981 | Choice of Arms | Actor | Mickey | 59 Average |
1980 | I Love All of You | Actor | Patrick | 58 Average |
1980 | Inspector Blunder | Actor | Roger Morzini, public enemy number 1 | 59 Average |
1980 | The Last Metro | Actor | Bernard Granger | 65 Fair |
1980 | Loulou | Actor | Loulou | 59 Average |
1980 | My American Uncle | Actor | René Ragueneau | 61 Fair |
1980 | Hurricane Rosie | Actor | Raoul Lamarre | 58 Average |
1979 | Buffet Froid | Actor | Alphonse Tram | 63 Fair |
1979 | The Dogs | Actor | Morel | 58 Average |
1979 | Traffic Jam | Actor | Franco | 60 Fair |
1978 | Sugar | Actor | Raoul-Renaud Homecourt | 59 Average |
1978 | Bye Bye Monkey | Actor | Gérard Lafayette | 59 Average |
1978 | Violanta | Actor | Fortunat | 59 Average |
1978 | Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | Actor | Raoul | 60 Fair |
1977 | At Night All Cats Are Crazy | Actor | Philippe Larcher | 58 Average |
1977 | The Left-Handed Woman | Actor | The Man with the T-Shirt | 59 Average |
1977 | Tell Her That I Love Her | Actor | David Martinaud | 59 Average |
1977 | Baxter, Vera Baxter | Actor | Michel Cayre | 59 Average |
1977 | The Lorry | Actor | lui | 59 Average |
1977 | Rene the Cane | Actor | René Bornier | 58 Average |
1976 | Barocco | Actor | Samson / Samson's Killer | 59 Average |
1976 | 1900 | Actor | Olmo Dalcò | 69 Fair |
1976 | The Last Woman | Actor | Gérard | 59 Average |
1976 | I Love You, I Don't | Actor | Horseman | 58 Average |
1976 | The Cinema According to Bertolucci | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1976 | Maîtresse | Actor | Oliver | 58 Average |
1975 | Seven Deaths by Prescription | Actor | Dr Jean-Pierre Berg | 59 Average |
1975 | Abicinema | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
1974 | Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others | Actor | Jean Lavallée, ami de Vincent | 61 Fair |
1974 | Stavisky... | Actor | Le jeune inventeur | 59 Average |
1974 | Woman of the Ganges | Actor | Guy on the beach / "The Fool" | 59 Average |
1974 | Going Places | Actor | Jean-Claude | 63 Fair |
1974 | The Down-in-the-Hole Gang | Actor | le facteur | 59 Average |
1974 | The Wonderful Crook | Actor | Pierre | 58 Average |
1973 | L'inconnu | Actor | Gérard | N/A N/A |
1973 | Rude journée pour la reine | Actor | Fabien | 58 Average |
1973 | Two Men in Town | Actor | Young mobster | 61 Fair |
1973 | Nathalie Granger | Actor | Le démarcheur | 59 Average |
1973 | Un monsieur bien rangé | Actor | Jean Joseph Jenk | N/A N/A |
1973 | The Dominici Affair | Actor | Zézé Perrin | 60 Fair |
1973 | The Year 01 | Actor | A traveler who does not take the train | 59 Average |
1973 | At the Meeting with Joyous Death | Actor | Beretti | 58 Average |
1972 | The Pariah | Actor | Young crook | 61 Fair |
1972 | Killer | Actor | Fredo, the sheep | 58 Average |
1972 | The Annuity | Actor | Victor, le complice de Jo | 60 Fair |
1972 | La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur | Actor | 33 year old father | 58 Average |
1971 | A Little Sun in Cold Water | Actor | Pierre | 58 Average |
1971 | Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques | Actor | Henri | 58 Average |
1971 | Nausicaa | Actor | Le voleur de livres | 58 Average |
1970 | The Adventures of Zadig | Actor | Zadig | N/A N/A |
1970 | Rendez-vous à Badenberg | Actor | Eddy Balmont | N/A N/A |
1970 | La Pomme de son œil | Actor | Hamid | 58 Average |
1970 | Le Cyborg ou Le Voyage vertical | Actor | Gabriel | 59 Average |
1970 | Tango | Actor | Edek | N/A N/A |
1967 | Le Beatnik et le minet | Actor | Le beatnik | N/A N/A |
1966 | Christmas Carole | Actor | 59 Average |
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Sport bez granits | Actor | Sergei Romanov | N/A N/A |
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Twins | Actor | Bishop Tarcisi | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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2014 | La voix des steppes | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Paris Je T'aime | Directing | Director | 64 Fair |
1999 | The Bridge | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1984 | Le Tartuffe | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
Writing |
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1984 | Le Tartuffe | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
Production |
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2016 | A Mighty Team | Production | Co-Producer | 58 Average |
2016 | Saint Amour | Production | Co-Producer | 58 Average |
2010 | My Afternoons with Margueritte | Production | Executive Producer | 62 Fair |
2010 | Mammuth | Production | Co-Producer | 58 Average |
2002 | A Loving Father | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
2002 | Napoleon | Production | Producer | 69 Fair |
2000 | Les Misérables | Production | Producer | 69 Fair |
1999 | The Bridge | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1997 | She's So Lovely | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
1991 | The Stranger | Production | Producer | 60 Fair |
1991 | The Stranger | Production | Executive Producer | 60 Fair |
1990 | The Branches of the Tree | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
1989 | Deux | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
1983 | The ComDads | Production | Producer | 62 Fair |
Crew |
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2008 | The Easy Way | Crew | Thanks | 59 Average |