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Jon Favreau
Jonathan Kolia Favreau is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades including an Emmy Award and two Saturn Awards.
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Born 19 October 1966 · Q295964
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2026· 5 entries
GeekTyrant: Jon Favreau’s OSWALD Series Reveals First Look, New Details, and February 2027 Disney+ Release
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Variety: Jon Favreau on His First Documentary, National Geographic’s ‘Lion’: Not Knowing Whether the Lead Character Would Survive Was ‘Harrowing’
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Public attention spiked: 14,877 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 4,824, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: added 'Wimbledon' to list of films in the lead
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TheWrap: Jon Favreau Admits ‘I Was Wrong’ to Fight Iron Man’s Death in ‘Avengers: Endgame’ | Video
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2023· 1 entry
Favreau received the 2,746th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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2022· 1 entry
The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
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2019· 4 entries
Alongside the streaming service and was co-produced by Favreau's production company Golem Creations
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The Guardian: Scorsese and Coppola have 'earned the right' to criticise Marvel, says Jon Favreau
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Awarded Disney Legends (2019).
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Favreau also appeared in the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Jon Favreau reveals details of Star Wars TV series
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Lucasfilm announced that Favreau would executive produce and write a live-action Star Wars television series, titled The Mandalorian, for Disney+
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2017· 1 entry
Favreau directed the pilot episode of CBS' Young Sheldon
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Jungle Book reviewed: with spoilers, and Jon Favreau – the Dailies film podcast
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The Guardian: Jon Favreau: 'Whenever I hear Garry Shandling's voice in The Jungle Book, it's sobering'
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2014· 2 entries
Stated that he still had interest in the project, and that he could direct it after finishing filming The Jungle Book (2016)
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Favreau wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in Chef
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2013· 1 entry
Favreau directed an episode (Season 9, Episode 16) of NBC's The Office
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2012· 1 entry
Favreau directed the pilot for the NBC show, Revolution, and served as one of the show's executive producers, alongside J
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2011· 1 entry
Starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, and is considered to be a financial disappointment, taking $174
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2008· 2 entries
The film was a huge critical and commercial success, solidifying Favreau's reputation as a director
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Played Denver, a bully-type bigger brother to Vaughn in Four Christmases
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2006· 1 entry
It was announced that Favreau was signed to direct the long-awaited Iron Man movie
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2005· 2 entries
Favreau directed the film adaptation of the children's book Zathura
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Favreau appeared as a guest judge and executive representative of Sony Corporation in week five of the NBC business-focused primetime reality TV show, The Apprentice
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2003· 1 entry
Favreau had a small part in Something's Gotta Give (a film starring Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson); Favreau played Leo, Harry Sanborn's (Nicholson) personal assistant, who visited Harry in the hospital
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2001· 2 entries
And Favreau got some screen time as lawyer Foggy Nelson in the 2003 movie Daredevil (2003) (considerably more in the director's cut version)
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Made his film directorial debut with another self-penned screenplay, Made
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1999· 1 entry
Starred in the television film Rocky Marciano, based on the life of world heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano
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1997· 2 entries
Favreau was working on a Miramax project The Marshal of Revelation, an offbeat Western featuring "a Hasidic Jewish gunslinger
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Appeared on the television sitcom Friends, portraying Pete Becker – Monica Geller's millionaire boyfriend who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) – for several episodes
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1996· 1 entry
As an actor-screenwriter with the film Swingers, which was also Vaughn's breakthrough role as the character Trent Walker, a foil to Favreau's heartbroken Mike Peters
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1984· 1 entry
And attended Queens College from 1984 to 1987, before dropping out
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1966· 2 entries
The only child of Madeleine, an elementary school teacher who died of leukemia in 1979, and Charles Favreau, a special education teacher
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Born 1966-10-19.
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