Biography
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1951) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future film series, as well as the Academy Award-winning live-action/animation epic Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's Forrest Gump, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.
His films are characterized by an interest in state-of-the-art special effects, including the early use of match moving in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and the pioneering performance capture techniques seen in The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007) and A Christmas Carol (2009). Though Zemeckis has often been pigeonholed as a director interested only in effects, his work has been defended by several critics, including David Thomson, who wrote that "No other contemporary director has used special effects to more dramatic and narrative purpose."
Movie Credits
Robert Zemeckis has appeared in 20 movies.
Some of the most popular movies include:
TV Credits
Robert Zemeckis has appeared in 5 TV Series.
These include
The Director's Chair,
Reunited Apart,
Parker Lewis Can't Lose,
MADtv and
The Oscars.
Production Credits
Robert Zemeckis has 99 production credits.
Production
Credited for Producer in 24 shows -
Here,
The King,
Tales from the Crypt,
Death Becomes Her,
Contact,
House on Haunted Hill,
What Lies Beneath,
Thir13en Ghosts,
Ritual,
Ghost Ship,
Gothika,
House of Wax,
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio,
The Reaping,
Beowulf,
A Christmas Carol,
Mars Needs Moms,
Flight,
The Walk,
Allied,
Manifest,
Welcome to Marwen,
Roald Dahl's The Witches and
Pinocchio.
Credited for Executive Producer in 18 shows -
School for Scumbags,
Two-Fisted Tales,
Trespass,
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight,
W.E.I.R.D. World,
The Frighteners,
Bordello of Blood,
Perversions of Science,
Matchstick Men,
Last Holiday,
Monster House,
Behind the Burly Q,
Real Steel,
Elemental: Hydrogen vs. Hindenburg,
Manifest,
Project Blue Book,
WHAT / IF and
Finch.
Directing
Credited for Director in 31 shows -
Here,
A Field of Honor,
I Wanna Hold Your Hand,
Used Cars,
Romancing the Stone,
Back to the Future,
Amazing Stories,
Amazing Stories,
Who Framed Roger Rabbit,
Tales from the Crypt,
Back to the Future Part II,
Back to the Future Part III,
Two-Fisted Tales,
Death Becomes Her,
Deadly Target,
Forrest Gump,
Contact,
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection,
What Lies Beneath,
Cast Away,
The Polar Express,
Le court des grands,
Beowulf,
A Christmas Carol,
Flight,
The Walk,
Doc Brown Saves the World,
Allied,
Welcome to Marwen,
Roald Dahl's The Witches and
Pinocchio.
Writing
Crew
