Davis Guggenheim

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1963-11-03 (61 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

Director

2025
2015
He Named Me Malala

as Director

2013
The Dream Is Now

as Director

2013
Teach

as Director

2012
Widow Detective

as Director

2012
2011
2010
2010
The Defenders

as Director

2009
Melrose Place

as Director

2008
It Might Get Loud

as Director

2008
The Tower

as Director

2007
Gracie

as Director

2006
2006
3 LBS

as Director

2006
The Unit

as Director

2005
Numb3rs

as Director

2005
Wanted

as Director

2004
Deadwood

as Director

2003
imagine…

as Director

2002
The Shield

as Director

2002
Push, Nevada

as Director

2001
The First Year

as Director

2001
Teach

as Director

2001
24

as Director

2001
Alias

as Director

2000
Gossip

as Director

1999
1997
The Visitor

as Director

1997
C-16: FBI

as Director

1996
Relativity

as Director

1995
Charlie Grace

as Director

1994
Party of Five

as Director

1994
ER

as Director

1993
NYPD Blue

as Director

1992
1991
Sisters

as Director

Producer

2025
2024
Girls State

as Executive Producer

2024
Rita

as Executive Producer

2024
Eternal You

as Executive Producer

2024
Mistress Dispeller

as Executive Producer

2024
We Can Be Heroes

as Executive Producer

2023
Under G-d

as Executive Producer

2023
Working: What We Do All Day

as Executive Producer

2023
Burden of Proof

as Executive Producer

2023
The Enfield Poltergeist

as Executive Producer

2023
Navajo Police: Class 57

as Executive Producer

2022
Accepted

as Executive Producer

2022
Bitterbrush

as Executive Producer

2022
Aftershock

as Executive Producer

2022
Mija

as Executive Producer

2022
Once Upon a Time in Londongrad

as Executive Producer

2021
All These Sons

as Executive Producer

2021
Procession

as Executive Producer

2021
At the Ready

as Executive Producer

2021
Swan Song

as Executive Producer

2021
Mistress Dispeller

as Executive Producer

2021
Homeroom

as Executive Producer

2020
Container

as Executive Producer

2020
A Thousand Cuts

as Executive Producer

2020
Time

as Executive Producer

2020
Boys State

as Executive Producer

2020
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

as Executive Producer

2019
To Be Queen

as Executive Producer

2019
Paulette

as Executive Producer

2019
Darlin

as Executive Producer

2019
Sweetheart Dancers

as Executive Producer

2019
Wolf's Mouth

as Executive Producer

2019
El Vacío

as Executive Producer

2019
Walk Run Cha-Cha

as Executive Producer

2019
Where's My Roy Cohn?

as Executive Producer

2018
The Price of Free

as Producer

2018
Bisbee '17

as Executive Producer

2017
2015
He Named Me Malala

as Producer

2014
Spent: Looking for Change

as Executive Producer

2011
2010
The Defenders

as Executive Producer

2009
Melrose Place

as Producer

2009
Melrose Place

as Executive Producer

2008
Carissa

as Executive Producer

2008
The Tower

as Executive Producer

2008
It Might Get Loud

as Producer

2007
Gracie

as Producer

2006
An Inconvenient Truth

as Executive Producer

2006
3 LBS

as Executive Producer

2004
Deadwood

as Producer

2001
Training Day

as Executive Producer

2001
Teach

as Producer

2001
The First Year

as Producer

1991
1989
sex, lies, and videotape

as Production Coordinator

Writer

2013
2013
Teach

as Writer

2008
It Might Get Loud

as Screenplay

2007
Gracie

as Writer

2006
An Inconvenient Truth

as Screenplay

Camera

2010
Waiting for "Superman"

as Camera Operator

2006
An Inconvenient Truth

as Camera Operator

2006
An Inconvenient Truth

as Director of Photography

2001
Teach

as Director of Photography

2001
The First Year

as Director of Photography

Sound