Clayton Townsend
Clayton Townsend | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 August 1957 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer, Television producer, Production manager |
| Years active | 1979 – present[1] |
Clayton Townsend (born 5 August 1957) is an American film producer, television producer and production manager. Between 1988 and 1999 he collaborated intensively with director Oliver Stone as (co-)producer and associate producer. Notable movies from that period are Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Natural Born Killers (1994) and Any Given Sunday (1999). Other notable producer achievements are Abel Ferrara's The Blackout (1997) and Where's Marlowe? (1998), directed by Daniel Pyne. He also served as an executive producer on the MGM comedy Heartbreakers (2001), directed by David Mirkin, and on Bad Company (2002), from director Joel Schumacher. In addition to feature films, Clayton has produced several television pilots for Paramount Television, including the 2003 telefilm Homeland Security.[1]
In 1990 Clayton Townsend won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for the film Born on the Fourth of July. He shared this award with Oliver Stone. In 2012 Clayton was nominated for the Producers Guild of America Award as Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures for Bridesmaids.[2] Since 1992 he is president of Itinerant Film Corporation, a private production company based in Los Angeles.[3]
Selected filmography
Feature films
- Bird Box (expected December 2018)
- Holmes and Watson (expected December 2018)
- Zoolander 2 (2016)
- Unbroken (2014)
- Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
- This Is 40 (2012)
- People Like Us (2012)
- Bridesmaids (2011)
- Funny People (2009)
- Year One (2009)
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
- Knocked Up (2007)
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006, executive producer)
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
- The Skeleton Key (2005, executive producer)
- Bad Company (2002, executive producer)
- Heartbreakers (2001, executive producer)
- Any Given Sunday (1999)
- Where's Marlowe? (1998)
- U Turn (1997)
- The Blackout (1997)
- Nixon (1995)
- Natural Born Killers (1994)
- Born on the Fourth of July (1989, associate producer)
Television
- Scorpion (2014, 1 episode)
- Sleepy Hollow (2013, pilot episode)
- Homeland Security (2004, pilot episode)
References
- ^ a b "Biography Clayton Townsend". madeinatlantis.com. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ "Clayton Townsend, Awards". imdb.com. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ "Clayton Townsend on LinkedIn". linkedin.com. Retrieved 5 February 2018.