---
name: "David Knoller"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-knoller"
fi1m_id: "david-knoller"
imdb_id: "nm0005604"
tmdb_id: 1236641
wikidata_id: "Q5236081"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-25T04:11:17.936246+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."
---

# David Knoller

## Identity

David Knoller

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-knoller
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-knoller
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005604
- **TMDB ID:** 1236641
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5236081
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Knoller, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5236081, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005604/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1236641

Producer and director. Born in Los Angeles, California.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Active:** 1999–present
- **Also known as:** David Stanton Knoller, David Stanton
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 directing, 2 producing
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 88 (1), 2000s 79 (1), 2020s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Knoller, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5236081, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005604/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1236641

## Coming up

- *12 12 12* (2026-11-12), Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/12-12-12.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*Freaks and Geeks*](https://film.one/tv/freaks-and-geeks.md) (88)
- **HBO Max:** [*Big Love*](https://film.one/tv/big-love.md) (79)

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

## Biography

David Knoller is a television producer, director and writer. He grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from California State University, Northridge. He began his career as an actor before producing live television stand-up specials for HBO and CBS, and later worked as a physical production and creative executive at HBO and AMC.

Knoller produced the pilot of *Freaks and Geeks* (1999). He served in various producer and director roles on *Big Love* (2006–2011), and as executive producer on *Lovecraft Country* (2020), *Here and Now* (2018) and *The Changeling* (2023). He also worked on *Carnivàle* and *Power*.

He received a CableACE Award and an NAACP Image Award for the 1996 television film *America's Dream*, and earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for *Big Love*. He is married to producer Wendy Knoller.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (1)

- *Big Love* (2006), Fi1m 79, Director, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/big-love.md)

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

- *Lovecraft Country* (2020), Fi1m 74, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/lovecraft-country.md)
- *Freaks and Geeks* (1999), Fi1m 88, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/freaks-and-geeks.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *12 12 12* (2026), series, Executive Producer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/12-12-12.md)
- *The Changeling* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *Lovecraft Country* (2020), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/lovecraft-country.md)
- *Here and Now* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *Pink Collar* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Big Love* (2006), series, Director, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/big-love.md)
- *Sick in the Head* (2003), Producer
- *Freaks and Geeks* (1999), series, Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/freaks-and-geeks.md)
- *America's Dream* (1996), Producer
- *Martin Lawrence: You So Crazy* (1994), Producer
- *Nights in White Satin* (1987), Second Second Assistant Director
- *House of the Rising Sun* (1987), as Roger

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