Joss Whedon

Person · Open Library

Born

23 June 1964

Works

292

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Film & TV

Writing · New York City, New York, USA

Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon (/ˈwiːdən/ WEE-dən; born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer. He is best known as the creator of several television series: the supernatural drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), the short-lived space Western Firefly (2002), the Internet musical miniseries Dr. Horrible's…

Known for

• Marvel Studios Assembled — Self (archive footage)2021
• A Place Among the Dead — JW2020
• Here's How It Was: The Making of 'Firefly' — Self2017
• Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond — Self2015
• Another Period — Duane Reade2015
• Con Man — Snow Guy2015
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Man on Escalator in Museum (uncredited)2014
• Marvel: 75 Years, from Pulp to Pop! — Self2014
• Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show — Self2014
• Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe — Self2014

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1964

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

21,689

Total plays

455,619

Joss Whedon is a writer, director, executive producer, & creator of several television series, most famously Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dollhouse. In film he wrote and directed 2005's Serenity, based on his television series Firefly, he co-wrote and produced 2012's The Cabin in the Woods, and wrote and directed 2012's Marvel's The Avengers, the third highest-grossing film of all time. Additionally he has written 2 musicals. One an episode of Buffy, "Once more with feeling" and

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: spectra and redshifts

   · 2001 · cited 1,922x

2. The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: power-spectrum analysis of the final data set and cosmological implications

   · 2005 · cited 1,698x

3. Full-scale partial nitritation/anammox experiences – An application survey

   · 2014 · cited 1,693x

4. OVERVIEW OF THE SDSS-IV MaNGA SURVEY: MAPPING NEARBY GALAXIES AT APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY

   · 2014 · cited 1,515x

5. The Galaxy in Context: Structural, Kinematic, and Integrated Properties

   · 2016 · cited 1,450x

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Quotes

• “The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy, the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. That element of surprise … genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series.”
• “I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around. … Aliens are something everyone else is doing.”
• “Very occasionally, if you really pay attention, life doesn’t suck.”
• “You can either watch TV or you can make TV.”
• “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.”
• “The network called up and said 'We piggybacked you on the deal for another show,' I'm like 'Okay, so what you're saying to my writers is that they weren't picked up when they thought they were and now that they are it was because of something that has nothing to do with them. Okay. Great. Stop calling'.”

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Wikidata facts

Image

Joss Whedon by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg

Number of children

2

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