Michael Lehmann

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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.

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2026
R.J. Decker
TV show Director
2024
Dexter: Original Sin
TV show Director
2023
War Sailor
TV show Co-Producer
2023
Will Trent
TV show Director
2022
War Sailor
Movie Co-Producer
2022
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
TV show Director
2021
American Rust
TV show Director
2020
68 Whiskey
TV show Executive Producer
2018
The Terror
TV show Director
2018
Deception
TV show Director
2017
Snowfall
TV show Director
2015
Marvel's Jessica Jones
TV show Director
2015
Scream Queens
TV show Director
2015
Blunt Talk
TV show Director
2015
The Brink
TV show Director
2014
Tyrant
TV show Executive Producer