Grant Heslov
Highest Rated: 100% Fail Safe (2000)
Lowest Rated: 23% Congo (1995)
Birthday: May 15, 1963
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Starting his career as guest star on numerous prominent television series, Grant Heslov made a smooth transition to producing and directing alongside his old friend, George Clooney, both of whom delivered some of Hollywood's most challenging and thought-provoking projects. Having met Clooney while doing an episode of "The Facts of Life"(NBC, 1979-1988), Heslov remained close friends with the rising star, as he, himself, continued taking small parts in film and on television like "L.A. Law" (NBC, 1986-1994), "True Lies" (1994) and "Dante's Peak" (1997). After making his directorial bow with the little-seen comedy, "Par 6" (2002), Heslov joined forces with Clooney and director Steven Soderbergh to become president of the television arm of their production company, Section Eight. While there, he oversaw two critically-acclaimed, but ultimately short-lived series, "K Street" (HBO, 2003) and "Unscripted" (HBO, 2004), while serving as one of the producers on the multi-Oscar-nominated drama, "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2004). But when Section Eight closed its doors, Heslov and Clooney partnered on their new production company, Smoke House, which provided him the opportunity to direct his first major feature, "The Men Who Stare at Goats" (2009), and co-writing the Oscar-nominated drama "The Ides of March" (2011), while maintaining both a strong friendship and creative partnership with Clooney.
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Grant Heslov
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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67% |
|
Wolfs | Producer | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How to Build a Truth Engine | Executive Producer | - | 2024 |
57% |
|
The Boys in the Boat | Producer | $52.6M | 2023 |
56% |
|
Ticket to Paradise | Executive Producer | $68.2M | 2022 |
51% |
|
The Tender Bar | Producer | - | 2021 |
49% |
|
The Midnight Sky | Producer | - | 2020 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Art of Political Murder | Producer | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Tracks of Alexandre Desplat | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
27% |
|
Suburbicon |
Screenwriter, Producer |
$5.7M | 2017 |
59% |
|
Money Monster | Producer | $41.0M | 2016 |
36% |
|
Our Brand Is Crisis | Producer | $7.0M | 2015 |
31% |
|
The Monuments Men |
Doctor (Character), Screenwriter, Producer |
$78.0M | 2014 |
67% |
|
August: Osage County | Producer | $37.7M | 2013 |
96% |
|
Argo | Producer | $136.0M | 2012 |
83% |
|
The Ides of March |
Screenwriter, Producer |
$41.0M | 2011 |
64% |
|
The American | Producer | $35.6M | 2010 |
51% |
|
The Men Who Stare at Goats |
Director, Producer |
$32.4M | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
|
Playground | Executive Producer | - | 2009 |
52% |
|
Leatherheads | Producer | $31.2M | 2008 |
93% |
|
Good Night, and Good Luck. |
Don Hewitt (Character), Writer, Producer |
$31.5M | 2005 |
41% |
|
The Scorpion King | Arpid (Character) | $90.3M | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
|
Bug | Gordon (Character) | - | 2002 |
100% |
|
Fail Safe | Jimmy (Character) | - | 2000 |
30% |
|
Dante's Peak | Greg (Character) | $67.2M | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dead by Midnight | Detective Mackowitz (Character) | - | 1997 |
30% |
|
Black Sheep | Robbie Mieghem (Character) | $30.6M | 1996 |
23% |
|
Congo | Richard (Character) | $80.1M | 1995 |
70% |
|
True Lies | Faisil (Character) | $146.3M | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
|
Catch Me if You Can | Nevil (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
|
Dangerous Curves | Wally Wilder (Character) | - | 1988 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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85% | 78% | Trial by Media | Executive Producer | 2020 |
85% | 80% | On Becoming a God in Central Florida | Executive Producer | 2019 |
84% | 82% | Catch-22 |
Doc Daneeka (Character), Executive Producer, Director |
2019 |
38% | 80% | Memphis Beat | Executive Producer | 2010-2011 |
76% | 88% | Sleeper Cell | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 91% | American Dad! |
Man 2/ |
2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Unscripted |
Executive Producer, Director |
2005 |
54% | No Score Yet | K Street | Executive Producer | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yes, Dear | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
74% | 85% | The X-Files | Andre Bormanis (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 80% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
46% | No Score Yet | It's Like, You Know ... | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 33% | Cupid | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
92% | No Score Yet | Buddy Faro | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outer Limits | Todd (Character) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 72% | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Columbo | Lab Technician (Guest Star) | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hogan Family | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baywatch | Buddy T. Semple (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 21 Jump Street | Elliot Masche (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Bernard 'Bernie' Berndlestein (Guest Star) | 1989 |
83% | No Score Yet | thirtysomething | Roger (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mama's Family | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beverly Hills Buntz | Jay (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Facts of Life | Jonathan Spencer (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joanie Loves Chachi | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |