Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg (/ˈkætsənˌbɜːrɡ/; born December 21, 1950) is an American media proprietor and film producer who has been serving as president of Universal Animation Studios. He previously served as chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, overseeing 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 2017, which invests in digital media projects. He 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 Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's active support, 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 Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeffrey Katzenberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2022 · Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel as Self
- 2020 · The Happy Days of Garry Marshall as Self
- 2019 · Untouchable as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Howard as Self
- 2017 · Spielberg as Self
- 2016 · For the Love of Spock as Self
- 2016 · Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? as Self
- 2015 · A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman as Self - CEO of DreamWorks Animation
- 2014 · Chaos on the Bridge as Self
- 2012 · Eddie Murphy: One Night Only as Self
- 2011 · Shrek: Once Upon a Time as Self
- 2011 · Pride of The Lion King as Himself
- 2011 · Brian May's Brief History of 3D as Self
- 2011 · Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood as Self
- 2010 · Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast as Self
- 2009 · Waking Sleeping Beauty as Himself
- 2009 · Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants as Self
- 2006 · Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' as Self
- 2005 · Madagascar as Rico (voice) (uncredited)
- 2004 · Kulturplatz as Self
- 2001 · Creating a Fairy Tale World: The Making of Shrek as Self
- 1999 · The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen as Self
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as
- 1995 · Your Studio and You as Jeffrey Katzenberg
- 1994 · The Making of the Lion King as Self
- 1990 · Dick Tracy: Behind the Badge, Behind the Scenes as Self