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Davis Guggenheim

Producer, Director, Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn November 3, 1963 (62 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Sisters
  • At the Ready
  • All These Sons
  • Accepted
  • We Can Be Heroes

Known For

  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • Deadwood
  • Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
  • Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
  • Gossip
  • Waiting for Superman
  • Sex, Lies, and Videotape
  • It Might Get Loud
  • Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
  • 24
  • He Named Me Malala
  • Swan Song
  • The Shield
  • Melrose Place (2009)
  • NYPD Blue
  • Gracie
  • Alias
  • The Defenders (2010)
  • The Unit
  • Time
  • ER

Featured Videos

  • Davis Guggenheim Featurette (Uk)
    Davis Guggenheim Featurette (Uk)He Named Me MalalaBehind the Scenes

Davis Guggenheim Filmography

2025
The Tale of Silyan · as Executive Producer
2025
2025
2024
Mistress Dispeller · as Executive Producer
2024
Rita · as Executive Producer
2024
Eternal You · as Executive Producer
2024
Girls State · as Executive Producer
2024
We Can Be Heroes · as Executive Producer
2023
The Enfield Poltergeist (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2023
Navajo Police: Class 57 (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2023
Burden of Proof (2023) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2023
Working: What We Do All Day (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2023
2022
Mija · as Executive Producer
2022
Aftershock · as Executive Producer
2022
Once Upon A Time In Londongrad (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2022
Summer of Soul · as Executive Producer
2021
Accepted · as Executive Producer
2021
Swan Song · as Executive Producer
2021
Procession · as Executive Producer
2021
At the Ready · as Executive Producer
2021
Bitterbrush · as Executive Producer
2021
Homeroom · as Executive Producer
2021
Black Woodstock · as Executive Producer
2021
All These Sons · as Executive Producer
2020
Time · as Executive Producer
2020
Boys State · as Executive Producer
2020
A Thousand Cuts · as Executive Producer
2020
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets · as Executive Producer
2019
Where's My Roy Cohn? · as Executive Producer
2019
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2019
Darlin · as Executive Producer
2019
Walk Run Cha-Cha · as Executive Producer
2019
Sweetheart Dancers · as Executive Producer
2018
2018
Bisbee '17 · as Executive Producer
2017
2015
2015
2011
2010
The Defenders (2010) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2009
2008
2007
2006
3 Lbs. (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2006
An Inconvenient Truth · as Executive Producer
2004
Deadwood (TV Series)
2001
Training Day · as Executive Producer
2001
1992
1991
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead · as Associate Producer
1983
Frontline (TV Series) · as Executive Producer

2025
2023
2019
2015
2013
2011
2010
2010
2009
2009
The World in Front (TV Series)
2008
2007
2006
3 Lbs. (TV Series)
2006
2006
The Unit (TV Series)
2005
Wanted (TV Series)
2005
Numb3rs (TV Series)
2004
Deadwood (TV Series)
2003
imagine... (TV Series)
2002
Push, Nevada (TV Series)
2002
The Shield (TV Series)
2001
24 (TV Series)
2001
Alias (TV Series)
2001
2000
1997
C-16: FBI (TV Series)
1997
The Visitor (TV Series)
1996
Relativity (TV Series)
1995
Charlie Grace (TV Series)
1994
ER (TV Series)
1994
Party of Five (TV Series)
1993
NYPD Blue (TV Series)
1991
Sisters (TV Series)

2013
2010
2008
It Might Get Loud · as Screenplay
2007
2006
An Inconvenient Truth · as Screenplay

2023
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie · as Self - Interviewer
2022
Subject · as Self
2015
IMDb on the Scene - Interviews (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
2010
The Talk (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
2007
The 79th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner
2007
Up Close with Carrie Keagan (TV Series) · as Self
2006
Made in Hollywood: Teen Edition (TV Series) · as Self
2006
Doc Talk (TV Series) · as Self
2005
The Colbert Report (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
2004
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (TV Series) · as Self
2004
Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self
2002
Last Call with Carson Daly (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1996
MS NOW Reports (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1991
Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1975
Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1973
Fantástico (TV Series) · as Self
1971
Film (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee

2020
2006
An Inconvenient Truth · as Director Of Photography
2001
The First Year · as Director Of Photography
1992
1989
Sex, Lies, and Videotape · as Production Coordinator

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