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Jeffrey Katzenberg (/ˈkætsənbɜːrɡ/ KAT-sən-burg; born December 21, 1950) is an American media proprietor and film producer. He served as chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, a position in which he oversaw production and business operations for the company's feature films. Following his departure, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG in 1994, where he served as the company's chief executive officer (CEO) and executive producer of its animated franchises—including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon—until stepping down from the title in 2016. He has since founded the venture capital firm WndrCo in the same year, which invests in digital media projects, and laun…
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Jeffrey Katzenberg (/ˈkætsənbɜːrɡ/ KAT-sən-burg; born December 21, 1950) is an American media proprietor and film producer. He served as chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, a position in which he oversaw production and business operations for the company's feature films. Following his departure, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG in 1994, where he served as the company's chief executive officer (CEO) and executive producer of its animated franchises—including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon—until stepping down from the title in 2016. He has since founded the venture capital firm WndrCo in the same year, which invests in digital media projects, and launched Quibi in 2020, a defunct short-form mobile video platform that lost US$1.35 billion in seven months. Katzenberg has also been involved in politics as an election donor. With active support of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, he was named "one of Hollywood's premier political kingmakers and one of the Democratic Party's top national fund-raisers". He served as a campaign co-chair for Joe Biden's 2024 presidential re-election campaign, and subsequently Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeffrey Katzenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jeffrey Katzenberg's Filmography
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No Poster
The Hollywood Rabbi
as Himself
Being Eddie
as Self
Not Just a Goof
as Self (archive footage)
Commitment to Life
as Self
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
as Self
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
as Self
Untouchable
as Self (archive footage)
Howard
as Self
Spielberg
as Self
For the Love of Spock
as Self
Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk?
as Self
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Self - CEO of DreamWorks Animation
Chaos on the Bridge
as Self
Seduced and Abandoned
as Self
Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
as Self
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
as Self
Pride of The Lion King
as Self
Brian May's Brief History of 3D
as Self
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
as Self
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
as Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
as Self
No Poster
Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
as Self
Madagascar
as Rico (voice) (uncredited)
Creating a Fairy Tale World: The Making of Shrek
as Self
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
as Self
Your Studio and You
as Jeffrey Katzenberg
The Making of the Lion King
as Self
Dick Tracy: Behind the Badge, Behind the Scenes
as Self