Michael Lehmann
| Michael Lehmann | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Michael Stephen Lehmann March 30, 1957 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film director, television director |
| Years active | 1985–present |
Michael Stephen Lehmann (born March 30, 1957) is an American film and television director.[1][2]
Early life and career
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 the USC School of Cinematic Arts 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.[3] 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 directed his first television commercial via the Leo Burnett Company in June 1996 for McDonald's. 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 and the Amazon.com series, Betas.
Lehmann claimed he would never make a sequel to Heathers. He claimed Winona Ryder wanted to do Heathers set in Washington, D.C., but he saw no potential for the project.[4]
References
- ↑ The New York Times
- ↑ "Columbia College Today". Retrieved May 14, 2015.
- ↑ The New York Times
- ↑ Kyle Buchanan. "Michael Lehmann Administers Cup of Liquid Drainer to Heathers Sequel". Movieline. Retrieved May 14, 2015.