Josh Klausner

Josh Klausner is an American screenwriter who wrote Date Night (2010) and Shrek Forever After (2010).

Biography

Early life

Josh Klausner graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. After college, he won a Sundance Student Academy Award for a short film he had made.

Career

He started his career in the movie industry as an assistant for Dumb & Dumber in 1994. He then worked as the second unit director for Kingpin in 1996, There’s Something About Mary in 1998, Me, Myself & Irene in 2000, and Shallow Hal in 2001.

He was the screenwriter of The 4th Floor (1999), Date Night (2010), and Shrek Forever After (2010). In 2018, he was replaced by Jon Croker in the screenwriting of the animated film adaptation of High in the Clouds.

Personal life

He is married to Hyatt Bass, a novelist and Texas oil heiress. They have two sons. They reside in a 12,000 square-foot house on Greenwich Street in the West Village, Manhattan, New York City. The house, a former film studio, was redesigned by architect Annabelle Selldorf for them. The house, described as "a fortress", was sold for $42.5 million in 2014, "one of most expensive single-family houses to ever sell in Manhattan".

Filmography

Production assistant

• Dumb & Dumber (1994)

Second unit director

• Kingpin (1996)
• There's Something About Mary (1998)
• Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
• Shallow Hal (2001)

References

External links

• Josh Klausner at IMDb

1. Shrek Forever After
2. Date Night
3. Untitled Shrek film
4. Darren Lemke
5. Shrek (franchise)
6. Klausner
7. Hyatt Bass
8. Harold and the Purple Crayon (film)
9. Anne Hendricks Bass
10. Sid Bass
11. The 4th Floor (1999 film)
12. Harold and the Purple Crayon
13. List of DreamWorks Animation productions
14. Shrek
15. Shane Acker
16. Brian Tyler
17. High in the Clouds
18. List of American films of 2010
19. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
20. The Thacher School