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Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Production · Born 1950-12-21 · New York City, New York, USA

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Biography

Jeffrey Katzenberg (/ˈkætsənbɜːrɡ/ KAT-sən-burg; born December 21, 1950) is an American media proprietor and film producer. He served as chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, a position in which he oversaw production and business operations for the company's feature films. Following his departure, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG in 1994, where he served as the company's chief executive officer (CEO) and executive producer of its animated franchises—including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon—until stepping down from the title in 2016. He has since founded the venture capital firm WndrCo in the same year, which invests in digital media projects, and launched Quibi in 2020, a defunct short-form mobile video platform that lost US$1.35 billion in seven months. Katzenberg has also been involved in politics as an election donor. With active support of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, he was named "one of Hollywood's premier political kingmakers and one of the Democratic Party's top national fund-raisers". He served as a campaign co-chair for Joe Biden's 2024 presidential re-election campaign, and subsequently Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campa…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Madagascar (2005) — Rico (voice) (uncredited)
  2. Spielberg (2017) — Self
  3. For the Love of Spock (2016) — Self
  4. Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009) — Self
  5. Untouchable (2019) — Self (archive footage)
  6. E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
  7. Howard (2018) — Self
  8. Chaos on the Bridge (2014) — Self
  9. Being Eddie (2025) — Self
  10. Seduced and Abandoned (2013) — Self
  11. A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman (2015) — Self - CEO of DreamWorks Animation
  12. Your Studio and You (1995) — Jeffrey Katzenberg
  13. The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen (1999) — Self
  14. Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel (2022) — Self
  15. Not Just a Goof (2024) — Self (archive footage)
  16. Eddie Murphy: One Night Only (2012) — Self
  17. Shrek: Once Upon a Time (2011) — Self
  18. The Happy Days of Garry Marshall (2020) — Self
  19. The South Bank Show (1978) — Self
  20. Creating a Fairy Tale World: The Making of Shrek (2001) — Self
  21. Film '72 (1971) — Self
  22. Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? (2016) — Self
  23. Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants (2009) — Self
  24. Brian May's Brief History of 3D (2011) — Self
  25. The Making of the Lion King (1994) — Self
  26. Pride of The Lion King (2011) — Self
  27. Dick Tracy: Behind the Badge, Behind the Scenes (1990) — Self
  28. Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood (2011) — Self
  29. Kulturplatz (2004) — Self
  30. Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast (2010) — Self
  31. Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' (2006) — Self
  32. Commitment to Life (2023) — Self
  33. The Hollywood Rabbi (2026) — Himself