--- name: "David Rogers" canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-rogers" fi1m_id: "david-rogers" imdb_id: "nm0736821" tmdb_id: 1532800 wikidata_id: "Q5239168" roles: ["Director"] born: "1 January 1901" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 77 average_as: "director" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-30T20:33:53.911185+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 Rogers ## Identity David Rogers - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-rogers - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** david-rogers - **IMDb ID:** nm0736821 - **TMDB ID:** 1532800 - **Wikidata ID:** Q5239168 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rogers_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5239168, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736821/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1532800 Director. Born 1 January 1901. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 1 January 1901 - **Active:** 2005–present - **Also known as:** Dave Rogers, David Evan Rogers - **Frequently works with:** [Greg Daniels](https://film.one/person/greg-daniels.md), [Alex Hardcastle](https://film.one/person/alex-hardcastle.md), [Charles McDougall](https://film.one/person/charles-mcdougall.md), [Claire Scanlon](https://film.one/person/claire-scanlon.md), [Jeffrey Blitz](https://film.one/person/jeffrey-blitz.md), [Ken Kwapis](https://film.one/person/ken-kwapis.md), [Ken Whittingham](https://film.one/person/ken-whittingham.md), [Matt Sohn](https://film.one/person/matt-sohn.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as director, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 80 (2), 2010s 72 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 71 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Genres:** Comedy 3 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rogers_(film_editor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5239168, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736821/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1532800 ## Streaming the US now - **Peacock:** [*Parks and Recreation*](https://film.one/tv/parks-and-recreation.md) (83), [*The Office*](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) (77) - **Disney+:** [*The Mindy Project*](https://film.one/tv/the-mindy-project.md) (72) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on David Rogers > David Rogers knows when a comedy should stop watching the person speaking. We value the reaction-led timing he brings to *The Office*, though his work there tells us more about his editing than his directing. The boss has spoken; the disapproval on another face gets time to register. In *The Office* (2005), editors David Rogers and Dean Holland make those reactions as important as the remark that prompted them. We winced at Steve Carell's neediness because the silent judgement of the other faces made the boss's behaviour harder to shrug off. This is a substantial contribution to a workplace comedy we like, despite its borrowed beginnings and occasional overplaying. The effect depends on more than the edit. Cinematographers Randall Einhorn and Matt Sohn make the camera seem to notice behaviour rather than arrange it, and that apparent informality gives the awkwardness room to develop. With no canned laughter, we are left to decide how far our sympathy for the boss extends. Rogers began directing the series in its fifth season, with *Employee Transfer*, after working on it as an editor. He already knew how its comedy could be built from the people listening. The later credits keep him working across directing, editing and producing, rather than abandoning one job for another. On *The Mindy Project* (2012), he directed and produced; on *Upload* (2020), he combined directing, editing and executive producing. *Upload* also continued his collaboration with Greg Daniels. His practical approach to directing includes planning coverage that will cut together and using whip-pans or multiple cameras within documentary-style constraints. That preparation matters when a joke depends on having another face to cut to. *The Paper* (2025) returns him to a series connected to *The Office*, again as director, editor and producer. We would not give Rogers sole credit for the comic timing of programmes made with so many collaborators. Holland's contribution matters, and the occasional overplaying in *The Office* is a reminder that careful cutting cannot fix everything in front of the camera. We recommend *The Office* with that reservation, and suggest watching the people who have not been given the line. ## Biography David Rogers is an American film editor, television director and producer. He began his career as an assistant editor on sitcoms including Seinfeld and NewsRadio in the 1990s, later editing episodes of Entourage and The Comeback. Rogers edited 95 broadcast episodes of The Office (2005) and won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series, for the episodes 'The Job' (2007) and 'Finale' (2013). He also received American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards for the same work. He began directing the series in season five with 'Employee Transfer' and directed nine further episodes. He advanced to associate producer and then co-producer on the show. He has since directed episodes of Parks and Recreation (2009), The Mindy Project (2012; 11 episodes), Space Force (2020), Upload (2020) and The Paper (2025). Rogers has served as co-executive producer or consulting producer on The Office, The Mindy Project, Upload and The Paper. He also edited extended 'Superfan' episodes of The Office for Peacock. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, shootonline.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *The Mindy Project* (2012), Fi1m 72, Director, Editor, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mindy-project.md) - *Parks and Recreation* (2009), Fi1m 83, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/parks-and-recreation.md) - *The Office* (2005), Fi1m 77, Editor, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) ## Complete filmography (21) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Paper* (2025), series, Director, Co-Executive Producer - *Renegades* (2022), Executive Producer - *The Walk-In* (2022), series, as Floor Runner - *Space Force* (2020), series, Director, Consulting Producer - *Getting to Know You* (2020), Executive Producer - *Upload* (2020), series, Editor, Director - *Trading Paint* (2019), Executive Producer - *Late Night* (2019), Editor - *There's... Johnny!* (2017), series, Director - *The Legend of Longwood* (2014), Producer - *Hyde Park on Hudson* (2012), Executive Producer - *The Mindy Project* (2012), series, Director, Executive Producer, Editor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mindy-project.md) - *Friends with Benefits* (2011), series, Director - *Perrier's Bounty* (2010), Executive Producer - *Parks and Recreation* (2009), series, Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/parks-and-recreation.md) - *Closing the Ring* (2007), Executive Producer - *The Office* (2005), series, as Guy Wearing Ray-Bans · Editor, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) - *Out of Bounds* (2003), Executive Producer - *The Emperor's Wife* (2003), Executive Producer - *Mr In-Between* (2001), Executive Producer - *Seinfeld* (1989), series, as Man in Church — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. 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