---
name: "Dave Filoni"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dave-filoni"
fi1m_id: "dave-filoni"
imdb_id: "nm1396048"
tmdb_id: 71538
wikidata_id: "Q2559261"
roles: ["Director","Writer","Producer"]
born: "7 June 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 60
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T22:26:21.497691+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."
---

# Dave Filoni

## Identity

Dave Filoni

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dave-filoni
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dave-filoni
- **IMDb ID:** nm1396048
- **TMDB ID:** 71538
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2559261
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Filoni, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2559261, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1396048/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71538

Director and writer. Born 7 June 1974 in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 7 June 1974, Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Also known as:** Chopper, David Filoni, C1-10P a.k.a. 'Chopper', 데이브 필로니, דייב פילוני, Дейв Филони, Dave C. Filoni, Dave Chopper Filoni
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 directing
- **Frequently works with:** [Jon Favreau](https://film.one/person/jon-favreau.md), [Noah Kloor](https://film.one/person/noah-kloor.md), [Pedro Pascal](https://film.one/person/pedro-pascal.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 60, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 44 (1), 2010s 76 (1), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Filoni, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2559261, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1396048/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71538

## Coming up

- *Star Wars: Starfighter* (2027-05-26), Executive Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Mandalorian*](https://film.one/tv/the-mandalorian.md) (76), [*The Mandalorian and Grogu*](https://film.one/film/the-mandalorian-and-grogu.md) (58), [*Star Wars: The Clone Wars*](https://film.one/film/star-wars-the-clone-wars.md) (44)

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

## Fi1m on Dave Filoni

> Dave Filoni has spent twenty years inside Star Wars and can stage a battle so that we always know who is above whom. He has not yet written one, for the cinema or for television, with much at stake.

The best thing Filoni has put on a screen is a cliff. In *Star Wars: The Clone Wars* (2008), Anakin, Ahsoka and Captain Rex's clones drive their six-legged walkers up a rock face on Teth while droids fire down from the top, and Filoni points the camera at the sky, so the thing to fear is the drop rather than the blaster. Jason Tucker cuts it so we never lose track of who is higher, and Dee Bradley Baker gives Rex the voice of a sergeant who has done this before. For ten minutes we sat forward. The other eighty-eight are a television pilot that got into the wrong building, and we said so.

He came from animation, directing episodes of *Avatar: The Last Airbender* (2005) at Nickelodeon before George Lucas hired him the same year to develop *The Clone Wars* as a series and, first, as a feature. He went on to create *Star Wars Rebels* (2014) to carry those people into the next era; we have not reviewed either series, but Ahsoka Tano, the character he is most attached to, came out of this stretch and has followed him ever since. In 2019 he crossed into live action, writing and directing on Jon Favreau's *The Mandalorian*, and in 2023 he wrote *Ahsoka* on his own. He became chief creative officer of Lucasfilm in 2023 and its president in 2026.

His strength is the long game: characters who grow over many hours, and a knowledge of Lucas's galaxy so complete that people describe him as its encyclopaedia. On television that pays. *The Mandalorian* earned its place in an evening with brisk hunts and a sense of humour, though we found the masked lead underwritten and Filoni's own hand hard to pick out from Favreau's. In cinemas the habit shows differently. *The Mandalorian and Grogu* (2026), which he wrote with Favreau and Noah Kloor, is a chain of monsters met and fought, each cut to a clean finish by Rachel Goodlett Katz and Dylan Firshein and each much like the last. It is competent and it is repetitive; somewhere in its second hour we caught ourselves waiting for a recap card. That is the complaint that follows him: the projects can play like a box of toys tipped onto a carpet, every figure named, nothing risked.

The 2008 film was built to launch a series and behaved like a first episode, introducing everyone and asking nothing of them. Eighteen years later the Grogu film, made after the series, did much the same from the other end. Filoni can stage an action scene; he has yet to write, or be handed, a script that gives him one worth the staging. Now that he runs the studio, we would like to know whether he still gets to point a camera at a cliff, and whether he will let someone else decide what is waiting at the top.

## Biography

Dave Filoni is an American writer, director and producer. He graduated from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 1996 with a degree in animation and worked as a director on the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender before joining Lucasfilm.

George Lucas hired him in 2005 to supervise direction on the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which he co-created, directed and wrote. Filoni later created Star Wars Rebels and served as executive producer and writer on The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka. He is writer and producer on the 2026 film The Mandalorian and Grogu.

Filoni was promoted to chief creative officer of Lucasfilm in 2023 and became president of the studio in 2026.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, screenrant.com, starwars.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Mandalorian and Grogu* (2026), Fi1m 58, as Trapper Wolf / Embo — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mandalorian-and-grogu.md)

### Directed (2) — the average rests on these

- *The Mandalorian* (2019), Fi1m 76, as Trapper Wolf — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mandalorian.md)
- *Star Wars: The Clone Wars* (2008), Fi1m 44, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-the-clone-wars.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *Star Wars: Starfighter* (2027), Executive Producer
- *The Mandalorian and Grogu* (2026), as Trapper Wolf / Embo · Producer, Writer, Second Unit Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mandalorian-and-grogu.md)
- *Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord* (2026), series, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Other, Story, Creator
- *Star Wars: Skeleton Crew* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *Star Wars: Tales of the Empire* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Other, Story, Creator
- *Ahsoka* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
- *Zen - Grogu and Dust Bunnies* (2022), Thanks
- *Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi* (2022), series, Executive Producer, Other, Writer, Creator
- *Obi-Wan Kenobi* (2022), series, Thanks
- *The Book of Boba Fett* (2021), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director
- *Star Wars: The Bad Batch* (2021), series, as C1-10P a.k.a. 'Chopper' (voice) · Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian* (2020), series, Executive Producer
- *The Mandalorian* (2019), series, as Trapper Wolf · Executive Producer, Writer, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mandalorian.md)
- *LEGO Star Wars: All-Stars* (2018), series, as C1-10P a.k.a. 'Chopper' (voice)
- *Star Wars Resistance* (2018), series, as Bo Keevil / Kowakians (voice), Stormtrooper (voice), Kowakians (voice), Bo Keevil / Stormtrooper (voice), Bo Keevil (voice) · Executive Producer, Story, Creator
- *Star Wars Rebels: Heroes of Mandalore* (2017), as Imperial Mandalorian Commander / Lead Wren Warrior / C1-10P a.k.a. "Chopper" (Uncredited) · Director, Creator, Executive Producer
- *Star Wars: Forces of Destiny* (2017), series, as C1-10P a.k.a. 'Chopper' (voice) · Executive Producer, Creator
- *Rogue One: A Star Wars Story* (2016), as Additional Voices (voice) — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story.md)
- *Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal* (2015), as Chopper (voice) (uncredited) · Executive Producer
- *Star Wars Rebels* (2014), series, as C1-10P 'Chopper' (voice) (uncredited) · Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Supervising Animation Director, Creator
- *Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion* (2014), as C1-10P aka Chopper (voice) (uncredited) · Executive Producer
- *Art Attack* (2014), as Stormtrooper #1 (voice)
- *The Machine in the Ghost* (2014), as C1-10P a.k.a. 'Chopper' (Voice) · Director
- *Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Darth Maul Returns* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Nightsisters Trilogy* (2010), Producer
- *Star Wars: The Clone Wars* (2008), series, as Embo / Black Sun Leader #2 (voice), Embo (voice), Embo / Jakoli (voice), Spots Podal - Gotal Alien (voice), Enforcer / Tour Guide Droid (voice), CH-33P a.k.a. 'Cheep' (voice) · Executive Producer, Additional Dialogue, Writer, Director
- *Star Wars: The Clone Wars* (2008), Director — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-the-clone-wars.md)
- *Avatar: The Last Airbender* (2005), series, Director
- *Dave the Barbarian* (2004), series, Storyboard Artist

## Gallery

- ![Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (2:41) (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/6736/gallery-d05dba78d068.jpg) Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (2:41) (2024) — The Imperial Communique, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Ahsoka_Q%26A_panel_%282%2741%29_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (5:49) (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/6736/gallery-b14814f6625b.jpg) Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (5:49) (2024) — The Imperial Communique, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Ahsoka_Q%26A_panel_%282%2741%29_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (7:02) (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/6736/gallery-511b3b45d5c8.jpg) Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (7:02) (2024) — The Imperial Communique, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Ahsoka_Q%26A_panel_%282%2741%29_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/6736/gallery-74a1f69188fb.jpg) Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (2024) — The Imperial Communique, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Ahsoka_Q%26A_panel_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Dave Filoni](https://film.one/media/person/6736/gallery-7349b3c1e8af.jpg) Dave Filoni — Image via TMDB
- ![Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/6736/gallery-2601e269d92a.jpg) Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (2024) — The Imperial Communique, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Ahsoka_Q%26A_panel_06.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/6736/gallery-f23159cd379c.jpg) Attended an Ahsoka TV Series screening with a great panel! Got it all. (2024) — The Imperial Communique, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Ahsoka_Q%26A_panel_07.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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