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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1963-11-03 (61 years old)

Place of Birth

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Davis Guggenheim

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.

Known For

Acting

2023

Subject as Self

1992

Directing

2025

2015

He Named Me Malala as Director

2013

The Dream Is Now as Director
Teach as Director

2011

2010

The Defenders as Director

2009

Melrose Place as Director

2007

Gracie as Director

2006

3 LBS as Director
The Unit as Director

2005

Numb3rs as Director
Wanted as Director

2004

Deadwood as Director

2003

imagine… as Director

2002

The Shield as Director
Push, Nevada as Director

2001

The First Year as Director
Teach as Director
24 as Director
Alias as Director

2000

Gossip as Director

1999

1997

The Visitor as Director
C-16: FBI as Director

1996

Relativity as Director

1995

Charlie Grace as Director

1994

Party of Five as Director
ER as Director

1993

NYPD Blue as Director

1992

1991

Sisters as Director

Writing

2013

Teach as Writer

2008

It Might Get Loud as Screenplay

2007

Gracie as Writer

2006

An Inconvenient Truth as Screenplay

Production

2025

Mistress Dispeller as Executive Producer
Uvalde Mom as Executive Producer

2024

Girls State as Executive Producer
Eternal You as Executive Producer
Rita as Executive Producer
We Can Be Heroes as Executive Producer

2023

Under G-d as Executive Producer
Working: What We Do All Day as Executive Producer
Burden of Proof as Executive Producer
The Enfield Poltergeist as Executive Producer
Navajo Police: Class 57 as Executive Producer

2022

Accepted as Executive Producer
Bitterbrush as Executive Producer
Aftershock as Executive Producer
Mija as Executive Producer
Once Upon a Time in Londongrad as Executive Producer

2021

All These Sons as Executive Producer
Procession as Executive Producer
At the Ready as Executive Producer
Mistress Dispeller as Executive Producer
Swan Song as Executive Producer
Homeroom as Executive Producer

2020

A Thousand Cuts as Executive Producer
Container as Executive Producer
Time as Executive Producer
Boys State as Executive Producer
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets as Executive Producer

2019

Paulette as Executive Producer
Sweetheart Dancers as Executive Producer
Darlin as Executive Producer
To Be Queen as Executive Producer
Wolf's Mouth as Executive Producer
El Vacío as Executive Producer
Walk Run Cha-Cha as Executive Producer
Where's My Roy Cohn? as Executive Producer

2018

The Price of Free as Producer
Bisbee '17 as Executive Producer

2017

2014

Spent: Looking for Change as Executive Producer

2011

2010

The Defenders as Executive Producer

2009

Melrose Place as Producer
Melrose Place as Executive Producer

2008

The Tower as Executive Producer
Carissa as Executive Producer
It Might Get Loud as Producer

2007

Gracie as Producer

2006

An Inconvenient Truth as Executive Producer
3 LBS as Executive Producer

2004

Deadwood as Producer

2001

Training Day as Executive Producer
Teach as Producer
The First Year as Producer

1991

1989

sex, lies, and videotape as Production Coordinator

Camera

2010

Waiting for "Superman" as Camera Operator

2006

An Inconvenient Truth as Camera Operator
An Inconvenient Truth as Director of Photography

2001

Teach as Director of Photography
The First Year as Director of Photography

Sound

Creator