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Chris Koch

Highest Rated: 30% Snow Day (2000)

Lowest Rated: 25% A Guy Thing (2003)

Birthday: Not Available

Birthplace: Melrose, Massachusetts, USA

Over the course of his 20-year career, Chris Koch has carved a niche for himself directing films and TV shows featuring slightly off-kilter but lovable characters and the often embarrassing situations in which they find themselves. His earliest directing credits came on the '90s Nickelodeon series, "The Adventures of Pete and Pete," which follows the surreal adventures of two red haired brothers (Big Pete and Little Pete) and their equally bizarre friends and neighbors. In 2000, Koch made his feature film debut with the Chevy Chase comedy, "Snow Day," about a group of students who plot to keep their snowed-in school closed. A few years later, he helmed the romantic comedy, "A Guy Thing," which starred skateboarder-turned-actor Jason Lee as a hapless groom who jeopardizes his relationship with his controlling fiancee by accidentally sleeping with her cousin. The two later reunited when Koch directed over a dozen episodes of Lee's award-winning sitcom, "My Name is Earl," about a repentant criminal's attempts to make up for his checkered past. Between 2003 and 2010, Koch also directed numerous episodes of the quirky medical comedy, "Scrubs," and worked on the TV movie, "Lipshitz Saves the World," about a high school outcast who may be the world's last, best hope. Koch has since directed multiple episodes of the multi-generational sitcom, "Modern Family," and the life-after-divorce comedy, "Cougar Town."

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Highest rated movies

30% 27% Snow Day Watchlist
25% 35% A Guy Thing
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
25% 35% A Guy Thing Director $15.4M 2003
30% 27% Snow Day Director $60.0M 2000

TV

Credit
97% 89% Only Murders in the Building Director 2023
No Score Yet 77% Animal Control Director 2023
No Score Yet 91% Young Rock Director 2022
94% 81% This Is Us Director 2018-2019 2021-2022
50% 71% Ordinary Joe Director 2021-2022
No Score Yet 79% American Housewife Director 2016-2021
No Score Yet 83% Young Sheldon Director 2017-2020
No Score Yet 73% A Million Little Things Director 2018-2019
94% 79% Fresh Off the Boat Director 2015-2017 2019
40% 77% Alex, Inc. Director 2018
85% 90% Modern Family Director 2010-2012 2015-2018
No Score Yet 84% Life in Pieces Director 2017
89% 93% Galavant Executive Producer,
Director
2015-2016
31% 82% The Neighbors Director,
Executive Producer
2012-2014
85% 83% Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 Director 2012-2013
86% 84% Workaholics Director 2011-2012
No Score Yet 88% The Middle Director 2010
89% 82% Cougar Town Director 2009-2010
83% 86% Scrubs Director 2003-2008 2010
89% 95% Better Off Ted Director 2009
82% 88% My Name Is Earl Director 2005-2009
68% No Score Yet Worst Week Director 2008
No Score Yet 90% Malcolm in the Middle Director 2000