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Clayton Townsend

Highest Rated: 90% Knocked Up (2007)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Blackout (1997)

Birthday: Feb 9, 1961

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Clayton Towsend is a producer best known for his work with director Oliver Stone and comedy producer/writer/director Judd Apatow. Townsend is known in the industry for being very hands-on, often blurring the boundaries between producer, writer, and director in his collaborations. Townsend has worked with Stone in nearly all his films, such as "Born on the Fourth of July," "JFK," and "The Doors." "Born on the Fourth of July," starring Tom Cruise, the third in a Vietnam War-centered trilogy was about one man's troubled and tragic journey to and after Vietnam, based on the autobiography by Ron Kovic. Townsend was instrumental in recreating Vietnam while filming in the Philippines--relations between the United States and Vietnam at the time prevented them from filming there. "JFK" was a political epic about the theories surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, notable also for its innovative multi-layered flashback film editing and technique. "The Doors," though a band biopic, focused especially on the life of Jim Morrison, played by Val Kilmer. It was a hit but was surrounded by controversy due to the creative license Stone and Townsend took with much of the story. Later in Townsend's career, he dealt more in comedies, teaming up with Judd Apatow a number of times--most notably in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up." Both films were critically acclaimed for their balance of seriousness and comedy, often improvised by the actors.

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Highest-Rated Movies

90% 83% Knocked Up
Watchlist
89% 76% Bridesmaids Watchlist 85% 84% The 40 Year-Old Virgin Watchlist 77% 74% Nixon Watchlist 76% 94% The Equalizer 3 Watchlist 74% 57% Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Watchlist 71% 84% Fast & Furious 6 Watchlist 69% 48% Funny People Watchlist 64% 58% Bird Box Watchlist 59% 82% F9 The Fast Saga Watchlist

Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Last Days 28% 2025 Producer The Equalizer 3 76% 94% 2023 Producer F9 The Fast Saga 59% 82% 2021 Producer Holmes & Watson 10% 25% 2018 Producer Bird Box 64% 58% 2018 Producer Zoolander No. 2 22% 20% 2016 Producer Unbroken 52% 70% 2014 Producer Fast & Furious 6 71% 84% 2013 Producer This Is 40 52% 50% 2012 Producer People Like Us 52% 62% 2012 Producer Bridesmaids 89% 76% 2011 Producer Funny People 69% 48% 2009 Producer Year One 14% 24% 2009 Producer Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 74% 57% 2007 Producer Knocked Up 90% 83% 2007 Producer The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 38% 69% 2006 Executive Producer The 40 Year-Old Virgin 85% 84% 2005 Producer The Skeleton Key 37% 58% 2005 Executive Producer Homeland Security 18% 2004 Producer Bad Company 10% 35% 2002 Executive Producer Heartbreakers 55% 51% 2001 Executive Producer, Production Manager Any Given Sunday 52% 73% 1999 Producer Where's Marlowe? 18% 56% 1998 Producer The Blackout 0% 53% 1997 Producer U-Turn 59% 63% 1997 Producer
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