---
name: "Benny Boom"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/benny-boom"
fi1m_id: "benny-boom"
imdb_id: "nm1534600"
tmdb_id: 134129
wikidata_id: "Q3702688"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "22 July 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T22:55:18.906925+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Benny Boom

## Identity

Benny Boom

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/benny-boom
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** benny-boom
- **IMDb ID:** nm1534600
- **TMDB ID:** 134129
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3702688
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Boom, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3702688, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1534600/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134129

Director. Born 22 July 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 22 July 1971, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Active:** 2014–2018
- **Also known as:** Benny Douglas
- **Frequently works with:** [Christine Swanson](https://film.one/person/christine-swanson.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Boom, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3702688, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1534600/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134129

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*All American*](https://film.one/tv/all-american.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Benny Boom, also credited as Benny Douglas, is an American director of music videos, television and film. Born on 22 July 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he studied film at Temple University before beginning his career as a production assistant and assistant to directors including Hype Williams and Director X.

He is known for directing the films *Next Day Air* (2009), *S.W.A.T.: Firefight* (2011) and *All Eyez on Me* (2017), as well as episodes of television series including *Chicago P.D.* (2014), *NCIS: Los Angeles*, *Empire* (2015), *All American* (2018), *Black Lightning* (2018) and *The Equalizer* (2021). He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, wikiwand.com, tvmaze.com, bennyboom.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *All American* (2018), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/all-american.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies* (2023), series, Director
- *All American: Homecoming* (2022), series, Director
- *CSI: Vegas* (2021), series, Director
- *The Equalizer* (2021), series, Director
- *Tazmanian Devil* (2020), Executive Producer
- *City on a Hill* (2019), series, Director
- *All American* (2018), series, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/all-american.md)
- *Magnum P.I.* (2018), series, Director
- *Black Lightning* (2018), series, Director
- *Tales* (2017), series, Director
- *All Eyez on Me* (2017), Director
- *48 Hours to Live* (2016), Director
- *Chicago Med* (2015), series, Director
- *Empire* (2015), series, Director
- *Chicago P.D.* (2014), series, Director
- *S.W.A.T.: Firefight* (2011), Director, Co-Producer
- *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), series, Director
- *Next Day Air* (2009), Director
- *90210* (2008), series, Director
- *Greenlight*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Benny Boom](https://film.one/media/person/1374637/gallery-06e041973420.jpg) Benny Boom — Player18792, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Benny_Boom.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![This photo was taken of Benny Boom by my grandmother in my house. Benny Boom was visiting.](https://film.one/media/person/1374637/gallery-19b091d2f83c.jpg) This photo was taken of Benny Boom by my grandmother in my house. Benny Boom was visiting. — Player18792, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Benny_Boom_spending_the_night_at_my_house.jpg/1280px-Benny_Boom_spending_the_night_at_my_house.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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