10 Facts About Davis Guggenheim

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Davis Guggenheim's credits include NYPD Blue, ER, 24, Alias, The Shield, Deadwood, and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, The Road We've Traveled, Waiting for "Superman", Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates and He Named Me Malala.

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Since 2006, Davis Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different documentaries that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time .

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3.

Philip Davis Guggenheim was born in St Louis, Missouri, the son of Marion Davis and filmmaker Charles Guggenheim.

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4.

Davis Guggenheim's father was Jewish, whereas his mother was Episcopalian.

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5.

Davis Guggenheim graduated from the Potomac School, Sidwell Friends School and Brown University.

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Davis Guggenheim joined the HBO Western drama Deadwood as a producer and director for the first season in 2004.

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7.

Davis Guggenheim's goal was to shine a bright light on a subject that critics brushed off as nothing more than an exaggeration or a hoax.

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8.

Davis Guggenheim directed and was an executive producer of the 2009 pilot for Melrose Place.

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9.

Documentary film about the band U2 directed by Davis Guggenheim titled From the Sky Down opened the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival in September.

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10.

Davis Guggenheim directed the television pilot Widow Detective for CBS in 2012, but the pilot was not picked up by the network.

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