Brian Grazer
Highest Rated: 100% We Feed People (2022)
Lowest Rated: 9% Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Birthday: Jul 12, 1951
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
For most of his long and illustrious career, Brian Grazer worked behind the scenes as director Ron Howard's dynamic producing partner, forming one of the most powerful and successful filmmaking duos working in Hollywood. Ever since teaming up with Howard on "Night Shift" (1982) and "Splash" (1984), Grazer developed a reputation as a highly influential creative with a strong sense for commercial stories and a sharp eye for emerging talent. In fact, Grazer has often been credited with having launched or boosted the careers of Michael Keaton, Tom Hanks, Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan and John Candy. Though he started in television production during the late 1970s, Grazer found his niche in features, churning out hit after hit while elevating his status through his partnership with Howard on Academy Award-worthy material like "Apollo 13" (1995), "A Beautiful Mind" (2002) and "Frost/Nixon" (2008). He eventually translated his feature success to the small screen with shows like "Arrested Development" (Fox, 2003-06), "24" (Fox, 2001-2010) and "Friday Night Lights" (NBC/DirecTV, 2006-11), but it was the many successful big screen projects that made Grazer one of the top producers for several decades.
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Filmography
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thirteen Lives | Producer | - | 2022 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | We Feed People | Producer | - | 2022 |
| 94% | 84% | Lucy and Desi | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
| 90% | 89% | Downfall: The Case Against Boeing |
Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 2022 |
| 90% | No Score Yet | Paper & Glue | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
| 96% | 92% | Julia | Executive Producer | $399.7K | 2021 |
| 87% | 96% | Tick, Tick... Boom! | Producer | - | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Curious George: Cape Ahoy | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
| 88% | 87% | Who Are You, Charlie Brown? | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
| 80% | No Score Yet | The Day Sports Stood Still | Producer | - | 2021 |
| 25% | 83% | Hillbilly Elegy | Producer | - | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Curious George: Go West, Go Wild | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
| 93% | 83% | Rebuilding Paradise | Producer | - | 2020 |
| 94% | 86% | Dads | Producer | - | 2019 |
| 84% | 86% | Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band | Executive Producer | $448.6K | 2019 |
| 87% | 97% | Pavarotti | Producer | $4.6M | 2019 |
| 49% | 56% | The Spy Who Dumped Me | Producer | $33.5M | 2018 |
| 85% | 78% | American Made | Producer | $51.3M | 2017 |
| 15% | 44% | The Dark Tower | Producer | $50.7M | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | Cop and a Half: New Recruit | Executive Producer | - | 2017 |
| 57% | 61% | Lowriders | Producer | $6.2M | 2016 |
| 23% | 36% | Inferno | Producer | $34.3M | 2016 |
| 96% | 89% | The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -- The Touring Years | Producer | $2.9M | 2016 |
| 33% | 69% | Pelé | Producer | $42.9K | 2016 |
| 93% | 78% | Prophet's Prey | Executive Producer | $13.5K | 2015 |
| 42% | 53% | In the Heart of the Sea | Producer | $23.1M | 2015 |
| 87% | 82% | The Good Lie | Producer | $2.7M | 2014 |
| 80% | 68% | Get On Up | Producer | $30.5M | 2014 |
| 55% | 33% | Made in America | Producer | - | 2013 |
| 89% | 88% | Rush | Producer | $26.9M | 2013 |
| 75% | 72% | Katy Perry: Part of Me | Producer | $25.3M | 2012 |
| 43% | 44% | J. Edgar | Producer | $37.3M | 2011 |
| 68% | 48% | Tower Heist | Producer | $78.0M | 2011 |
| 38% | 48% | Restless | Producer | $163.1K | 2011 |
| 44% | 43% | Cowboys & Aliens | Producer | $100.2M | 2011 |
| 24% | 29% | The Dilemma | Producer | $48.4M | 2011 |
| 43% | 58% | Robin Hood | Producer | $105.2M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey | Producer | - | 2009 |
| 37% | 57% | Angels & Demons | Producer | $133.4M | 2009 |
| 93% | 88% | Frost/Nixon | Producer | $18.6M | 2008 |
| 62% | 82% | Changeling | Producer | $35.7M | 2008 |
| 59% | 71% | Bra Boys | Executive Producer | $45.6K | 2007 |
| 80% | 89% | American Gangster | Producer | $130.1M | 2007 |
| 86% | 85% | Inside Man | Producer | $88.5M | 2006 |
| 25% | 57% | The Da Vinci Code | Producer | $217.5M | 2006 |
| 70% | 69% | Curious George | Producer | $58.3M | 2006 |
| 29% | 49% | Fun With Dick and Jane | Producer | $110.3M | 2005 |
| 37% | 48% | Flightplan | Producer | $89.7M | 2005 |
| 80% | 91% | Cinderella Man | Producer | $61.6M | 2005 |
| 82% | 67% | Inside Deep Throat | Producer | $653.6K | 2005 |
| 29% | 45% | The Alamo | Producer | $22.4M | 2004 |
| 82% | 85% | Friday Night Lights |
Producer, Executive Producer |
$61.2M | 2004 |
| 9% | 55% | Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat | Producer | $100.4M | 2003 |
| 76% | 48% | Intolerable Cruelty | Producer | $35.1M | 2003 |
| 75% | 54% | 8 Mile | Producer | $116.7M | 2002 |
| 62% | 58% | Blue Crush | Producer | $40.1M | 2002 |
| 78% | 64% | Undercover Brother | Producer | $38.2M | 2002 |
| 74% | 93% | A Beautiful Mind | Producer | $170.7M | 2001 |
| 49% | 56% | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Producer | $260.4M | 2000 |
| 26% | 33% | Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | Producer | $123.3M | 2000 |
| 82% | 83% | Beyond the Mat | Producer | $2.0M | 1999 |
| 81% | 61% | Bowfinger | Producer | $66.4M | 1999 |
| 50% | 77% | Life | Producer | $64.0M | 1999 |
| 64% | 30% | EDtv | Producer | $22.4M | 1999 |
| 38% | 28% | Psycho | Producer | $21.5M | 1998 |
| 21% | 40% | Mercury Rising | Producer | $32.9M | 1998 |
| 83% | 75% | Liar Liar | Producer | $181.4M | 1997 |
| 31% | 51% | Inventing the Abbotts | Producer | $5.9M | 1997 |
| 31% | 47% | Sgt. Bilko | Producer | $30.1M | 1996 |
| 64% | 44% | The Nutty Professor | Producer | $128.8M | 1996 |
| 75% | 62% | Ransom | Producer | $136.5M | 1996 |
| 15% | 39% | The Chamber | Producer | $14.4M | 1996 |
| 96% | 87% | Apollo 13 | Producer | $173.8M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Boomerang | Producer | - | 1995 |
| 32% | 47% | Greedy | Producer | $12.4M | 1994 |
| 20% | 59% | The Cowboy Way | Producer | $19.6M | 1994 |
| 88% | 66% | The Paper | Producer | $36.6M | 1994 |
| 37% | 45% | For Love or Money | Producer | $10.4M | 1993 |
| 27% | 46% | My Girl 2 | Producer | $16.7M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat | Producer | - | 1993 |
| 38% | 47% | Housesitter | Producer | $58.1M | 1992 |
| 50% | 62% | Far and Away | Producer | $58.2M | 1992 |
| 44% | 59% | Boomerang | Producer | $66.7M | 1992 |
| 76% | 75% | Backdraft | Executive Producer | $75.7M | 1991 |
| 50% | 77% | My Girl | Producer | $60.2M | 1991 |
| 57% | 79% | The Doors | Executive Producer | $32.7M | 1991 |
| 74% | 77% | Cry Baby | Executive Producer | $7.5M | 1990 |
| 51% | 52% | Kindergarten Cop | Producer | $88.6M | 1990 |
| 91% | 76% | Parenthood | Producer | $99.6M | 1989 |
| 10% | 39% | Armed and Dangerous | Producer | $15.4M | 1986 |
| 75% | 83% | Real Genius | Producer | $130.8K | 1985 |
| 32% | 56% | Spies Like Us | Producer | $56.5M | 1985 |
| 91% | 58% | Splash | Producer | - | 1984 |
| 92% | 63% | Night Shift | Producer | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Zuma Beach | Producer | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery | Producer | - | 1978 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Light & Magic | Executive Producer | 2022 |
| 86% | 75% | Under the Banner of Heaven | Executive Producer | 2022 |
| 84% | 51% | Crime Scene | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| 84% | 93% | Swagger | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| 57% | 53% | Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| 74% | 94% | Wu-Tang: An American Saga | Executive Producer | 2019 2021 |
| 83% | No Score Yet | Gossip | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| 100% | 98% | The Ms. Pat Show | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| 76% | 91% | Why Women Kill | Executive Producer | 2019 2021 |
| 70% | 57% | Genius | Executive Producer | 2017-2018 2021 |
| 80% | 50% | Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine | Executive Producer | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Astronauts | Executive Producer | 2020-2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On Pointe | Executive Producer | 2020 |
| 64% | 48% | Filthy Rich | Executive Producer | 2020 |
| 84% | 48% | Empire | Executive Producer | 2015-2020 |
| 88% | 39% | 68 Whiskey | Executive Producer | 2020 |
| 74% | 85% | Arrested Development |
Himself (Guest Star), Executive Producer |
2003-2006 2013 2018-2019 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Mars | Executive Producer | 2018 |
| 75% | 89% | Chance | Executive Producer | 2016-2017 |
| 94% | 77% | This Is Us | Himself (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 84% | 95% | Shots Fired | Executive Producer | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Breakthrough | Executive Producer | 2017 |
| 60% | 54% | 24: Legacy | Executive Producer | 2017 |
| 46% | 61% | The Bastard Executioner | Executive Producer | 2015 |
| 88% | 95% | Parenthood | Executive Producer | 2010-2015 |
| 41% | 89% | Gang Related | Executive Producer | 2014 |
| 87% | 86% | 24 | Executive Producer | 2001-2007 2009-2010 2014 |
| 28% | 69% | Those Who Kill | Executive Producer | 2014 |
| 17% | 33% | How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) | Executive Producer | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Face Off | Judge | 2012 |
| 38% | No Score Yet | The Great Escape | Executive Producer | 2012 |
| 21% | 24% | The Playboy Club | Executive Producer | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Friends With Benefits | Executive Producer | 2011 |
| 97% | 93% | Friday Night Lights | Executive Producer | 2006-2011 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | Lie to Me | Executive Producer | 2009-2011 |
| 85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Himself (Guest Voice) | 1998 2008 |
| 65% | 83% | Entourage | Brian Grazer (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Treasure Hunters | Executive Producer | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Inside | Executive Producer | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big House | Executive Producer | 2004 |
| 83% | No Score Yet | Miss Match | Executive Producer | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | Felicity | Executive Producer | 1998-2002 |
| 30% | No Score Yet | The Beast | Executive Producer | 2001 |
| 90% | 100% | Sports Night | Executive Producer | 1998-2000 |
| 93% | No Score Yet | Wonderland | Executive Producer | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | From the Earth to the Moon | Producer | 1998 |
| 23% | No Score Yet | Hiller and Diller | Executive Producer | 1997-1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Parenthood | Executive Producer | 1990-1991 |