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Michael Lehmann

Michael Lehmann

Director · Born 1957-03-30 · San Francisco, California, USA

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Biography

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 Sout…

Directed

  1. American Horror Story (2011) — Director
  2. Dexter (2006) — Director
  3. Marvel's Jessica Jones (2015) — Director
  4. True Blood (2008) — Director
  5. Heathers (1989) — Director
  6. Scream Queens (2015) — Director
  7. Californication (2007) — Director
  8. 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) — Director
  9. Hudson Hawk (1991) — Director
  10. The Terror (2018) — Director
  11. Airheads (1994) — Director
  12. Snowfall (2017) — Director
  13. Veronica Mars (2004) — Director
  14. Because I Said So (2007) — Director
  15. The West Wing (1999) — Director
  16. The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (2022) — Director
  17. Dexter: Original Sin (2024) — Director
  18. Boston Legal (2004) — Director
  19. The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) — Director
  20. Bored to Death (2009) — Director
  21. Nurse Jackie (2009) — Director
  22. Deception (2018) — Director
  23. Will Trent (2023) — Director
  24. The Brink (2015) — Director
  25. Big Love (2006) — Director
  26. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) — Director
  27. The Big C (2010) — Director
  28. Wonderfalls (2004) — Director
  29. Outsourced (2010) — Director
  30. My Giant (1998) — Director
  31. The Larry Sanders Show (1992) — Director
  32. The Comeback (2005) — Director
  33. American Rust (2021) — Director
  34. Flakes (2007) — Director
  35. Blunt Talk (2015) — Director
  36. Meet the Applegates (1990) — Director
  37. Betas (2013) — Director
  38. R.J. Decker (2026) — Director
  39. Fallen Angels (1993) — Director
  40. The Beautiful Life: TBL (2009) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads (2001) — Self - Director
  2. Celebrating Sixteen Candles (2008) — Himself
  3. Sincerely Yours (2008) — Self