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Joe Johnston

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Joe Johnston

Born May 13, 1950 · 76 years40 titles 36 movies · 4 TV
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Biography

Joseph Eggleston Johnston II (born May 13, 1950) is an American film director, producer, writer, and visual effects artist. He is best known for directing effects-driven films, including Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Jumanji (1995), Jurassic Park III (2001), The Wolfman (2010), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Johnston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

Joe Johnson · Joseph Johnston · Joseph Eggleston Johnston II

Born

May 13, 1950

Fort Worth, Texas, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

18

Acting credits

16

Directing

2

Writing

9

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

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1977 1 title(s)

1980 1 title(s)

1981 1 title(s)

1983 2 title(s)

1984 1 title(s)

1985 2 title(s)

1987 1 title(s)

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1989 2 title(s)

1991 2 title(s)

1992 1 title(s)

1994 1 title(s)

1995 1 title(s)

1999 3 title(s)

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2001 2 title(s)

2004 2 title(s)

2010 2 title(s)

2011 1 title(s)

2012 1 title(s)

2014 3 title(s)

2016 1 title(s)

2018 1 title(s)

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2022 2 title(s)