Josh Klausner | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Spouse | Hyatt Bass |
| Children | 2 sons |
| Relatives | Sid Bass (father-in-law) Anne Hendricks Bass (mother-in-law) |
Josh Klausner is an American screenwriter.
He wrote Date Night (2010) and Shrek Forever After (2010).
Biography
Early life
Josh Klausner graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.[1][2]
Career
He started his career in the movie industry as an assistant for Dumb & Dumber in 1994.[3] He then worked as the second unit director for Kingpin in 1996, There’s Something About Mary in 1998, Me, Myself & Irene in 2000, and Shallow Hal in 2001.[4]
He was the screenwriter of The 4th Floor (1999), Date Night (2010), and Shrek Forever After (2010).[4]
Personal life
He is married to Hyatt Bass, a novelist and Texas oil heiress.[5] They have two sons, Jasper and Hayden. They reside in a 12,000 square-foot house on Greenwich Street in the West Village on the island of Manhattan, in New York City.[5] The house, a former film studio, was redesigned by architect Annabelle Selldorf for them.[5]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Director | Writer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | The 4th Floor | Yes | Yes |
| 2007 | Shrek The Third | No | Additional |
| 2010 | Date Night | No | Yes |
| Shrek Forever After | No | Yes | |
| 2018 | Wanderland | Yes | Yes |
Production assistant
- Dumb & Dumber (1994)
Second unit director
- Kingpin (1996)
- There's Something About Mary (1998)
- Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
- Shallow Hal (2001)
References
- ↑ Milano-Firenze, Mo-Net s.r.l. "Josh Klausner - MYmovies". www.mymovies.it.
- ↑ "Princeton Alumni Weekly". princeton alumni weekly. 23 August 1991. p. 59 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Josh Klausner". IMDb.
- 1 2 Stuart Miller, Josh Klausner: Learned about laughs on the set, Variety, December 3, 2010
- 1 2 3 Julie Satow, Palaces-in-the-Making, The New York Times, October 24, 2013