John Hamburg

John Hamburg ( born May 26, 1970 in New York as John Liman Hamburg ) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

Life

John Hamburg was born in New York City. He is the son of New York's Radio spokeswoman Joan Hamburg and the cousin of the director and producer Doug Liman. Hamburg attended Brown University in 1992 and received his degree in history. He then went to the private film school, Tisch School of the Arts, which is one of the fifteen schools of NYU.

He is married to actress Christina Kirk since 24 September 2005.

Career

In 1996, Hamburg presented his short film Tick finished and presented it to the Sundance Film Festival. He then wrote the screenplay for the comedy The Safe specialists, conducting Director, actors Steve Zahn and Sam Rockwell were faced the camera. Hamburg itself is to see a scene as Philip. In the comedy My bride, her father and I, with Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro in the lead roles, he worked on the script with. This Ben Stiller noticed him and hired him for a collaboration on the screenplay of the film Zoolander. In the same year, he directed three episodes of the television series American Campus Director. In Danny DeVito The apartment fright, with Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore in the lead roles, he was seen in a sequence as Mr. Friedman. Then a guest appearance followed in the television series Reel Comedy.

His breakthrough as a director, he had in 2004, when a new collaboration with Ben Stiller, the film ... Along Came Polly, where he also wrote the screenplay. In the same year he is working on the script for the sequel, with my wife, her parents and me. A year later, he worked for two episodes of the TV series Stella Short.

In 2005, he worked as a director for two episodes of the U.S. TV channel Comedy Central, for the Stella series. He then worked until 2008 again as a director, screenwriter and producer for three episodes of the series Welcome to the Captain for the TV station CBS Paramount Network Television. In the appeared in 2009 film Love You, Man! led John Hamburg directed, wrote the screenplay and was also involved as a producer.

Its been last activity was the participation in the script of the third part of Meet the Fockers, My wife, our children and me. The film was released on 23 December 2010 in German cinemas with Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand in the lead roles.

Filmography

• 2008: Welcome to the Captain (TV series, one episode)
• 2009: Love You, Man! (I Love You, Man)
• 2010: My wife, our children and I ( Little Fockers )