Actor

David Koepp

Writing

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Acting credits

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TMDB popularity

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Movies: 46Series: 1Crew credits: 40

TMDB ID: 508

IMDb ID: nm0462895

Known for: Writing

Born: June 9, 1963

Age: 62

Place of birth: Pewaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1989 - 2026

Years active: 38

Average TMDB rating: 6.51

Wikidata: Q270178

Also known as

Leonard Maas kiçik • デイヴィッド・コープ • Leonard Maas Jr. • Девід Кеп

Other jobs

Screenplay (19)Writer (8)Director (7)Producer (3)Creator (1)Original Film Writer (1)Screenstory (1)

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Biography

David Koepp (/kɛp/; born June 9, 1963) is an American screenwriter and director. He is the ninth most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts, with a total gross of over $2.3 billion. Koepp has achieved both critical and commercial success in a wide variety of genres: thriller, science fiction, comedy, action, drama, crime, superhero, horror, adventure, and fantasy. Some of the best-known films he has written include the sci-fi adventure films Jurassic Park (1993), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008); the crime film Carlito's Way (1993); the action spy films Mission: Impossible (1996) and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014); the superhero film Spider-Man (2002); the sci-fi disaster film War of the Worlds (2005); and the mystery thriller Angels & Demons (2009). Koepp has directed seven feature films over the course of his career: The Trigger Effect (1996), Stir of Echoes (1999), Secret Window (2004), Ghost Town (2008), Premium Rush (2012), Mortdecai (2015), and You Should Have Left (2020).