About

Known credits:
24
Birthday:
1957-03-30
Place of birth:
San Francisco, California, USA
Website:
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Michael Lehmann

Overview

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.

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Known for

Acting
2008 Celebrating Sixteen Candles Actor Himself N/A
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2008 Sincerely Yours Actor Self N/A
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2001 Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads Actor Self - Director 59
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Directing
2022 The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window Directing Director 67
Fair
2012 American Horror Story: Asylum Directing Director N/A
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2011 American Horror Story: Murder House Directing Director N/A
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2007 Flakes Directing Director 58
Average
2007 Because I Said So Directing Director 58
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2002 40 Days and 40 Nights Directing Director 56
Average
1998 My Giant Directing Director 57
Average
1996 The Truth About Cats & Dogs Directing Director 59
Average
1994 Airheads Directing Director 60
Fair
1991 Hudson Hawk Directing Director 57
Average
1990 Meet the Applegates Directing Director 58
Average
1988 Heathers Directing Director 69
Fair
1985 The Beaver Gets a Boner Directing Director 59
Average

Writing
1990 Meet the Applegates Writing Writer 58
Average

Production
2023 War Sailor Production Co-Producer 74
Good
2022 War Sailor Production Co-Producer 59
Average
2020 68 Whiskey Production Executive Producer 72
Good
2013 Night Train to Lisbon Production Associate Producer 61
Fair
2004 Veronica Mars Production Consulting Producer 77
Good
2004 Century City Production Producer 69
Fair
1994 Ed Wood Production Executive Producer 72
Good