Jeffrey Katzenberg
- Production
- December 21, 1950 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Jeffrey Katzenberg (/ˈkætsənbɜːrɡ/ KAT-sən-burg; born December 21, 1950) is an American media proprietor and film producer. He served as chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, a position in which he oversaw production and business operations for the company's feature films. Following his departure, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG in 1994, where he served as the company's chief executive officer (CEO) and executive producer of its animated franchises—including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon—until stepping down from the title in 2016. He has since founded the venture capital firm WndrCo in the same year, which invests in digital media projects, and launched Quibi in 2020, a defunct short-form mobile video platform that lost US$1.35 billion in seven months. Katzenberg has also been involved in politics as an election donor. With active support of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, he was named "one of Hollywood's premier political kingmakers and one of the Democratic Party's top national fund-raisers". He served as a campaign co-chair for Joe Biden's 2024 presidential re-election campaign, and subsequently Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeffrey Katzenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- The Hollywood Rabbi · Self
- Being Eddie · Self
- Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie · Thanks
- Not Just a Goof · Self
- Commitment to Life · Self
- Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel · Self
- Home Movie: The Princess Bride · Executive producer
- The Happy Days of Garry Marshall · Self
- Dummy · Executive producer
- Trolls World Tour · Thanks
- Untouchable · Self
- Howard · Self
- Spielberg · Self
- Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie · Thanks
- The Boss Baby · Thanks
- Trolls · Thanks
- For the Love of Spock · Self
- Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? · Self
- A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman · Self
- Chaos on the Bridge · Self
- Seduced and Abandoned · Self
- The Croods · Executive producer
- Eddie Murphy: One Night Only · Self
- Shrek: Once Upon a Time · Self
- Pride of The Lion King · Self
- Brian May's Brief History of 3D · Self
- Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood · Self
- Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast · Self
- Neighbors from Hell · Producer
- Shrek Forever After · Executive producer
- Waking Sleeping Beauty · Self
- How to Train Your Dragon · Executive producer
- Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants · Self
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa · Executive producer
- Bee Movie · Executive producer
- Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' · Self
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit · Thanks
- Madagascar · Rico (voice) (uncredited)
- The Contender · Producer
- Shark Tale · Executive producer
- Kulturplatz · Self
- Father of the Pride · Producer, Creator
- Shrek 2 · Executive producer
- Shrek 3-D · Producer
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas · Producer
- DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection · Producer
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron · Producer
- Shrek · Producer
- Creating a Fairy Tale World: The Making of Shrek · Self
- Joseph: King of Dreams · Executive producer
- Chicken Run · Executive producer
- The Road to El Dorado · Executive producer
- The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen · Self
- The Prince of Egypt · Executive producer
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Your Studio and You · Jeffrey Katzenberg
- The Making of the Lion King · Self
- The Lion King · Executive producer
- Dick Tracy: Behind the Badge, Behind the Scenes · Self
- The South Bank Show · Self
- Film '72 · Self
- ROTG: Creating An Epic · Thanks