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Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

128

Gender

Male

Birthday

1963-11-03 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Also Known As

Philip Davis Guggenheim

Davis Guggenheim

Biography

Philip Davis Guggenheim (born November 3, 1963) is an Academy Award-winning American documentary and live action film director and producer. His credits as a producer and director include Training Day, The Shield, Alias, 24, NYPD Blue, ER, Deadwood, and Party of Five and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for 'Superman'. Since 2006, Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different films that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for 'Superman'). Guggenheim's cinematographic projects received severals awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film for An Inconvenient Truth, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Documentary Feature for He Named Me Malala and two nominations at the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.

Known For

Acting

Production

Accepted

2022

Accepted

as

Teach

2001

Teach

as

Gracie

2007

Gracie

as

Carissa

2008

Carissa

as

The Tower

2008

The Tower

as

Darlin

2019

Darlin

as

Paulette

2019

Paulette

as

Container

2020

Container

as

Rita

2024

Rita

as

Swan Song

2021

Swan Song

as

El Vacío

2019

El Vacío

as

Under G-d

2023

Under G-d

as

Mija

2022

Mija

as

Time

2020

Time

as

Homeroom

2021

Homeroom

as

Crew

Directing