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Dean Lorey

Dean Lorey

Highest Rated: 64% Animal Crackers (2017)

Lowest Rated: 16% Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

Birthday: Nov 17, 1967

Birthplace: Conyers, Georgia, USA

Successful Hollywood screenwriter and director Dean Lorey is best known for his work on the cult sitcom "Arrested Development" and the Damon Wayans TV series "My Wife and Kids." A lifelong lover of movies, Lorey left his native Georgia for NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he learned the art of screenwriting. After paying his dues writing commercial spots and book cover copy, Lorey headed to Los Angeles, where he helped script the 1993 dark romantic comedy "My Boyfriend's Back." He worked on two more popcorn features--the campy 1993 horror film "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday" and the 1995 boot-camp comedy, "Major Payne"--before turning his attention to television sitcoms. Lorey took on several fruitful projects in the 2000s: writing, producing, and directing the hit ABC sitcom "My Wife and Kids"; executive producing the Emmy Award-winning comedy "Arrested Development; and writing the first in a series of forthcoming children's books, "Nightmare Academy."

Filmography

Movies

Credit
64% 77% Animal Crackers Screenwriter - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Animal Crackers Screenwriter - 2017
29% 68% Major Payne Screenwriter $29.4M 1995
16% 23% Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday Screenwriter $15.6M 1993

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Creature Commandos Executive Producer 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Poppa's House Executive Producer,
Writer
2024
92% 89% Kite Man: Hell Yeah! Executive Producer,
Creator,
Writer
2024
97% 86% Harley Quinn Executive Producer,
Writer
2019-2020 2022-2023
78% 87% Big Shot Executive Producer 2022
No Score Yet 90% Those Who Can't Executive Producer 2016 2019
92% 69% iZombie Writer 2018
61% 72% Powerless Executive Producer 2017
54% 67% The Crazy Ones Executive Producer,
Writer
2013-2014
75% 85% Arrested Development Writer 2006 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bronx Warrant Executive Producer 2013
30% 33% Running Wilde Screenwriter 2010
0% No Score Yet The Underground Director 2006
No Score Yet 73% My Wife and Kids Director,
Executive Producer,
Writer
2001-2005