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John Gatins

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John Gatins

Born Apr 16, 1968 · 58 years35 titles 35 movies · 0 TV
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Biography

John Gatins (born April 16, 1968) is an American screenwriter, director, and actor. For writing the drama film Flight (2012), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Gatins made his directorial feature debut by filming his screenplay for Dreamer (2005). He also wrote or co-wrote Coach Carter (2005), Real Steel (2011), Kong: Skull Island, and Power Rangers (2017). As an actor, he has collaborated three times with Eddie Murphy on Norbit (2007), Meet Dave (2008), and A Thousand Words (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Gatins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born

Apr 16, 1968

New York City, New York, USA

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Roles across career

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

24

Acting credits

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Directing

12

Writing

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