---
name: "Brian Dannelly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brian-dannelly"
fi1m_id: "brian-dannelly"
imdb_id: "nm0200380"
tmdb_id: 74259
wikidata_id: "Q4963510"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "18 September 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T18:22:24.958864+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."
---

# Brian Dannelly

## Identity

Brian Dannelly

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brian-dannelly
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brian-dannelly
- **IMDb ID:** nm0200380
- **TMDB ID:** 74259
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4963510
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dannelly, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4963510, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200380/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74259

Director. Born 18 September 1963 in Würzburg, Germania.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 18 September 1963, Würzburg, Germania
- **Active:** 2005–2007
- **Frequently works with:** [Julie Anne Robinson](https://film.one/person/julie-anne-robinson.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as director, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dannelly, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4963510, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200380/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74259

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*Weeds*](https://film.one/tv/weeds.md) (76)

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

## Biography

Brian Dannelly is a German-born American film director and screenwriter. Born on 18 September 1963 in Würzburg, Germany, he moved with his family to Baltimore, Maryland, at the age of eleven. He graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a degree in visual arts in 1997 and completed the directing program at the American Film Institute in 1999.

Dannelly wrote and directed the 2004 feature film *Saved!*. He has directed episodes of television series including *Weeds*, *Pushing Daisies* (2007), *United States of Tara*, *Scream: The TV Series*, *Awkward.*, *Insatiable*, and *School Spirits* (2023). He has also worked as a producer on *Weeds* and *In the Dark*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, tvmaze.com, pushing-daisies.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Pushing Daisies* (2007), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/pushing-daisies.md)
- *Weeds* (2005), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/weeds.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *School Spirits* (2023), series, Director
- *Queer as Folk* (2022), series, Director
- *In the Dark* (2019), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Insatiable* (2018), series, Director
- *All Night* (2018), series, Director
- *Sweet/Vicious* (2016), series, Director
- *Haters Back Off* (2016), series, Director
- *Scream: The TV Series* (2015), series, Director
- *Finding Carter* (2014), series, Director
- *Faking It* (2014), series, Director
- *Struck by Lightning* (2013), Director
- *Awkward.* (2011), series, Director
- *United States of Tara* (2009), series, Director
- *Pushing Daisies* (2007), series, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/pushing-daisies.md)
- *Help Me Help You* (2006), series, Director
- *Weeds* (2005), series, Director, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/weeds.md)
- *Saved!* (2004), Director, Writer
- *He Bop* (2000), Director, Writer

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