---
name: "Christopher Cleveland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/christopher-cleveland"
fi1m_id: "christopher-cleveland"
imdb_id: "nm1480450"
tmdb_id: 60497
wikidata_id: "Q24808803"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T10:47:42.913368+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."
---

# Christopher Cleveland

## Identity

Christopher Cleveland

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/christopher-cleveland
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** christopher-cleveland
- **IMDb ID:** nm1480450
- **TMDB ID:** 60497
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24808803
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24808803, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1480450/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60497

Writer. Born in Los Angeles.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Also known as:** Chris Cleveland
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24808803, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1480450/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60497

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*McFarland, USA*](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Christopher Cleveland is a screenwriter and producer, also credited as Chris Cleveland. He was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Watts. He studied film at the Art Center College of Design.

His first script sale became Oliver Stone's *Nixon* (1995). Cleveland wrote the screenplays for *Glory Road* (2006), *McFarland, USA* (2015, with Bettina Gilois and Grant Thompson) and the television film *Bessie* (2015). He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for the latter.

Cleveland has collaborated with directors including Oliver Stone, Taylor Hackford and Niki Caro, and actors such as Denzel Washington and Kevin Costner.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *McFarland, USA* (2015), Fi1m 72, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *Bessie* (2015), Screenplay
- *McFarland, USA* (2015), Screenplay — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md)
- *Glory Road* (2006), Writer

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/christopher-cleveland