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Michael Lehmann

Director, Producer, WriterBorn March 30, 1957 (68 years)
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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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Terror
  • Night Train to Lisbon

Known For

  • True Blood
  • Heathers
  • Ed Wood
  • Dexter
  • 40 Days and 40 Nights
  • Hudson Hawk
  • The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
  • Dexter: Original Sin
  • Because I Said So
  • Bored to Death
  • American Horror Story
  • The Truth About Cats & Dogs
  • Airheads
  • The Brink
  • Tyrant
  • The Terror
  • Deception (2018)
  • Californication
  • My Giant
  • Marvel's Jessica Jones
  • Chance
  • Snowfall

Filmography

2024
2023
Will Trent (TV Series)
2022
2021
American Rust (TV Series)
2021
Heels (TV Series)
2020
68 Whiskey (TV Series)
2018
2018
Deception (2018) (TV Series)
2017
White Famous (TV Series)
2017
Snowfall (TV Series)
2016
Chance (TV Series)
2015
2015
Scream Queens (TV Series)
2015
Blunt Talk (TV Series)
2015
The Brink (TV Series)
2014
Tyrant (TV Series)
2013
Betas (TV Series)
2012
Go On (TV Series)
2012
House of Lies (TV Series)
2011
2010
Outsourced (TV Series)
2010
The Big C (TV Series)
2009
Bored to Death (TV Series)
2009
2009
Nurse Jackie (TV Series)
2008
Worst Week (TV Series)
2008
True Blood (TV Series)
2008
Miss Guided (TV Series)
2008
2007
2007
Californication (TV Series)
2007
2006
Dexter (TV Series)
2006
Big Love (TV Series)
2005
The Comeback (TV Series)
2004
Boston Legal (TV Series)
2004
Veronica Mars (TV Series)
2004
Century City (TV Series)
2004
Wonderfalls (TV Series)
2002
2002
Watching Ellie (TV Series)
2001
Pasadena (TV Series)
2000
1999
The West Wing (TV Series)
1998
1996
1994
1993
Fallen Angels (TV Series)
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1985

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