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Date of Birth

24 July 1965, New York City, New York, USA

Height

6' 2" (1.88 m)

Trade Mark

Prevalent use of Steadicam shots

Trivia

Graduated from Brown University in 1988.

Graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1992)

Originally did not want to cast Scott Wolf in Go (1999) because Katie Holmes was already in the movie, and he did not want the movie to star two TV actors. However, he saw him talking in a hallway with Jay Mohr and realized that the chemistry between the two would be good in the movie.

As of 2001, Doug Liman is the Vice Chairman of HYPNOTIC.

Graduated in same high school class with actor/director Charles Herman-Wurmfeld.

Lives in Tribeca area of Manhattan.

Doug Liman's father, Arthur L. Liman, was one of the prosecutors in the Iran-Contra Affair. (in the Bourne Identity Liman portrays a likewise agency within agency...)

Got to read the script for Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) for the first time on the set of The Bourne Identity (2002), but rejected it. Brad Pitt then gave it to him for a second time after Liman had finished The Bourne Identity (2002).

One of 105 people invited to join AMPAS in 2008.

Personal Quotes

"The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make."

"I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that."

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