Dan Fogelman Explained

Dan Fogelman
Birth Date:19 February 1976
Birth Place:River Vale, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma Mater:University of Pennsylvania
Occupation:screenwriter, producer
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Children:1[1]

Dan Fogelman (born February 19, 1976) is an American screenwriter and producer, whose screenplays include Cars, Tangled, and Crazy, Stupid, Love. He also created the 2012 television sitcom The Neighbors, the 2015 fairy tale-themed musical comedy series Galavant, the 2016 drama series This Is Us, and the 2016 baseball drama series Pitch.

Biography

Fogelman grew up in what he has called an "endearingly dysfunctional" Jewish family[2] in River Vale, New Jersey.[3] He attended Pascack Valley High School in nearby Hillsdale.[4] He attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1997.[5] He and his mother, Joyce,[6] took a road trip from New Jersey to Las Vegas that became the basis for his 2012 film comedy The Guilt Trip, starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen as a mother and son on a cross-country road trip.[2] His father, named Marty, became the namesake of the father in the 2012 television sitcom The Neighbors created by Fogelman, who has a sister who inspired the family daughter in this series.[2] He is married to Caitlin Thompson, who stars as Madison on his family drama This Is Us and they share a son together born in 2020.[1]

Filmography

Films

TitleYearDirectorWriterProducerNotes
Shit Happens2003Short film
Cars2006
Fred Claus2007
Bolt2008Voice role: Billy
Tangled2010
Cars 22011
Crazy, Stupid, Love2011
The Guilt Trip2012
Last Vegas2013
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl2015
Danny Collins2015Directorial debut
Life Itself2018
Honeymoon with HarryTBA
Also uncredited wrote earlier draft for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).[7]

Television films

TitleYearWriterExecutive
Producer
Notes
The 12th Man2006
Lipshitz Saves the World2007Unsold pilot
Untitled NBA Project2015
The King of 7B2015

Television series

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Who is Caitlin Thompson from This Is Us? . . 2020-10-28 . The Focus . 2020-11-10 .
  2. News: Pfefferman. Naomi. 'The Neighbors': Aliens next door. The Jewish Journal. September 10, 2012. December 14, 2012. October 22, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161022194632/http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/the_neighbors_aliens_next_door. dead.
  3. Youngmisuk, Ohm. "Derrick Ward goes from movie gofer to Giant attraction", Daily News (New York), September 30, 2007. Accessed August 19, 2013. "Dan Fogelman has a movie debuting this Christmas called Fred Claus starring Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti and Kevin Spacey.... Now the kid who used to run to get coffee and sandwiches is the starting running back for the New York Giants. 'It blows my mind,' says Fogelman, a lifelong Giants fan who grew up in River Vale, N.J."
  4. Gladstone, Douglas J. "This Is Us Is Back (Now Stop Sobbing); NJ native Dan Fogelman never imagined his hit series This Is Us would make viewers cry so much.", New Jersey Monthly, October 6, 2017. Accessed November 2, 2017. "'When I started showing the pilot to people it started happening,' says Fogelman, who grew up in River Vale and attended Pascack Valley High School in Hillsdale."
  5. News: Krueger . Alyson . This Is Us Is His . 12 October 2020 . The Pennsylvania Gazette . Aug 28, 2017.
  6. News: Naomi. Pfefferman. First crush to midlife dating. The Jewish Journal. July 26, 2011. December 14, 2012.
  7. Web site: February 10, 2023 . Indiana Jones 5 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230320025855/https://directories.wga.org/project/1211115/indiana-jones-5/ . March 20, 2023 . May 27, 2023 . Writers Guild of America West.