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American comedian and filmmaker (born 1967)

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Judd Apatow is a male person from the United States who began his work period in 1985. His professional activity ended on January 1, 2014. He is associated with an official website and has accumulated 2,446,974 social media followers.

Apatow is credited with eleven works, including *I found this funny*, *It's Garry Shandling's Book*, *Young Frankenstein : a Mel Brooks Book*, and *Sicker in the Head*. Another source lists five works for him. On Last.fm, his name is associated with 2,267 listeners and a playcount of 7,149. He is referenced by 688 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
11

Top works

  • I found this funny
  • It's Garry Shandling's Book
  • Young Frankenstein : a Mel Brooks Book
  • Sicker in the Head
  • Young Frankenstein : A Mel Brooks Book Lib/E

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1967-12-06

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,267
Total plays
7,149

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Judd+Apatow">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Judd Apatow

Key facts

Born
( 1967-12-06 ) December 6, 1967 (age 58) , New York City, U.S.
Occupations
Director producer writer
Years active
1985–present
Notable work
The 40-Year-Old Virgin , Knocked Up , Funny People , This Is 40 , Trainwreck , The King of Staten Island , The Bubble
Spouse
Leslie Mann ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. June 9, 1997</span>"}]]}'>1997 ) ​
Children
Maude Iris
Website
juddapatow .com

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Flushing
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Notable work
This Is 40
Image
Judd Apatow 2012 Shankbone.JPG
Work location
United States
Residence
Los Angeles
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Commons category
Judd Apatow
date of birth
1967-12-06
topic's main category
Category:Judd Apatow
influenced by
Steve Martin
has works in the collection
Museum of Modern Art
social media followers
2436394
start of work period
1985-00-00
writing language
English language
end of work period
2014-01-01
Sources (13)

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Encyclopedic overview

Judd Apatow (/ˈæpətaʊ/; born December 6, 1967) is an American director, producer and screenwriter known for his work in comedy films. Apatow is the founder of Apatow Productions, through which he wrote, produced, and directed his films The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), Funny People (2009), This Is 40 (2012), Trainwreck (2015), The King of Staten Island (2020), and The Bubble (2022).

Through his company, Apatow produced and developed the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Undeclared (2001–2002), Funny or Die Presents (2010–2011), Girls (2012–2017), Love (2016–2018), and Crashing (2017–2019). He also produced the films The Cable Guy (1996), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Superbad (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Bridesmaids (2011), Begin Again (2013), and The Big Sick (2017).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Judd Apatow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.