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Davis Guggenheim

Davis Guggenheim

Directing1963St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Biography

Philip Davis Guggenheim (born November 3, 1963) is an Academy Award-winning American documentary and live action film director and producer. His credits as a producer and director include Training Day, The Shield, Alias, 24, NYPD Blue, ER, Deadwood, and Party of Five and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for 'Superman'. Since 2006, Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different films that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for 'Superman'). Guggenheim's cinematographic projects received severals awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film for An Inconvenient Truth, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Documentary Feature for He Named Me Malala and two nominations at the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.

Acting History

Future
Love Apptually
Executive Producer
The Statement
Executive Producer
2026
Soul Patrol
Executive Producer
2025
Uvalde Mom
Executive Producer
Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
The Tale of Silyan
Executive Producer
2024
Girls State
Executive Producer
Eternal You
Executive Producer
Rita
Executive Producer
We Can Be Heroes
Executive Producer
2023
Subject
as Self
Under G-d
Executive Producer
Burden of Proof
TVExecutive Producer
Working: What We Do All Day
TVExecutive Producer
The Enfield Poltergeist
TVExecutive Producer
Navajo Police: Class 57
TVExecutive Producer
2022
Accepted
Executive Producer
Aftershock
Executive Producer
Mija
Executive Producer
Bitterbrush
Executive Producer
Once Upon a Time in Londongrad
TVExecutive Producer
2021
Swan Song
Executive Producer
At the Ready
Executive Producer
Homeroom
Executive Producer
All These Sons
Executive Producer
Procession
Executive Producer
Mistress Dispeller
Executive Producer
2019
Walk Run Cha-Cha
Executive Producer
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Executive Producer
Darlin
Executive Producer
To Be Queen
Executive Producer
Sweetheart Dancers
Executive Producer
Wolf's Mouth
Executive Producer
El Vacío
Executive Producer
Paulette
Executive Producer
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
TVExecutive Producer3 eps
2018
Bisbee '17
Executive Producer
2014
Spent: Looking for Change
Executive Producer
2013
Teach
Writer
Teach
Director
2010
Waiting for "Superman"
Camera Operator
The Defenders
TVDirector1 eps
The Defenders
TVExecutive Producer18 eps
2009
Melrose Place
TVDirector
Melrose Place
TVProducer
Melrose Place
TVExecutive Producer
2008
The Tower
Director
The Tower
Executive Producer
Carissa
Executive Producer
2007
Gracie
Director
Gracie
Writer
Gracie
Producer
2006
An Inconvenient Truth
Camera Operator
An Inconvenient Truth
Executive Producer
An Inconvenient Truth
Director of Photography
The Unit
TVDirector1 eps
3 lbs
TVDirector
3 lbs
TVExecutive Producer
2005
Wanted
TVDirector
Numb3rs
TVDirector
2004
Deadwood
TVDirector
Deadwood
TVProducer
2003
imagine…
TVDirector1 eps
2002
Push, Nevada
TVDirector
The Shield
TVDirector
2001
Training Day
Executive Producer
The First Year
Director of Photography
Teach
Director
Teach
Director of Photography
Teach
Producer
Alias
TVDirector
24
TVDirector
2000
Gossip
Director
1997
C-16: FBI
TVDirector
The Visitor
TVDirector
1996
Relativity
TVDirector
1995
Charlie Grace
TVDirector
Sisters
TVDirector2 eps
NYPD Blue
TVDirector3 eps
1994
Party of Five
TVDirector
ER
TVDirector
1989
sex, lies, and videotape
Production Coordinator

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Personal Info

Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/3/1963(62 years old)
Place of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA