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| Born | John Liman Hamberg May 26, 1970 Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, film producer |
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John Liman Hamburg (born May 26, 1970) is an American screenwriter, film director and producer.
Hamburg was born to a Jewish family [1] in Manhattan, the son of New York City radio personality Joan Hamburg and Morton I. Hamburg. [2] He graduated from Brown University in 1992 with a degree in history. He then attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. [3]
Hamburg is married to actress Christina Kirk. [2]
After screening his 1996 short film Tick at the Sundance Film Festival, Hamburg wrote and directed the 1998 film Safe Men . Hamburg then found greater success co-writing Meet the Parents and Zoolander , and returned to the director's chair with Along Came Polly , which he also wrote. He also co-wrote the sequel Meet the Fockers . In 2009, Hamburg wrote and directed the hit comedy I Love You, Man . He wrote the second sequel to Meet the Parents , entitled Little Fockers . [2]
In 2016, Hamburg co-wrote the sequel Zoolander 2 , which grossed $56 million at the box office compared to a $50 million budget, [4] and directed and co-wrote the comedy Why Him? for 20th Century Fox. [5] In 2022, he wrote and directed the Netflix film Me Time starring Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg. [6] [7]
| Year | Title | Contribution | Notes | ||||
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| Director | Producer | Writer | Actor | Role | |||
| 1996 | Tick | Yes | No | Yes | No | Short film | |
| 1998 | Safe Men | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Philip | Feature film |
| 2000 | Meet The Parents | No | No | Yes | No | Feature film; Co-writer with Jim Herzfeld | |
| 2001 | Zoolander | No | No | Yes | No | Feature film; Co-writer with Drake Sather and Ben Stiller | |
| 2003 | Duplex | No | No | No | Yes | Mr. Friedman | Feature film |
| 2004 | Meet the Fockers | No | No | Yes | No | Feature film; Co-writer with Jim Herzfeld | |
| 2004 | Along Came Polly | Yes | No | Yes | No | Feature film | |
| 2009 | I Love You, Man | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Feature film; Co-writer with Larry Levin | |
| 2010 | Little Fockers | No | Yes | Yes | No | Feature film; Co-writer with Larry Stuckey; Nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay | |
| 2015 | Drunk Wedding | No | Yes | No | No | Feature film; Executive Producer | |
| 2016 | Why Him? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Feature film; Co-writer with Ian Helfer; Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Night School | No | No | Yes | No | Feature film; Co-writer with Kevin Hart, Harry Ratchford, Joey Wells, Matthew Kellard, and Nicholas Stoller | |
| 2022 | Me Time | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Feature film | |
| Year | Title | Contribution | Notes | |
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| Director | Producer | |||
| 2001–2003 | Undeclared | Yes | No | Director of 3 episodes |
| 2005 | Stella | Yes | No | Director of 2 episodes |
| 2008 | Welcome to the Captain | Yes | Yes | Director of 3 episodes Executive Producer of 5 episodes |
| 2011 | New Girl | Yes | No | Director of Episode: "Cece Crashes" |
| 2015 | The Grinder | Yes | No | Director of Episode: "Little Mitchard No More" |
| 2015 | Good Session | Yes | Yes | Television Movie; Executive Producer |
| 2019–2021 | The Unicorn | Yes | Yes | Director of 4 episodes; Executive Producer |
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