---
name: "Don McEnery"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/don-mcenery"
fi1m_id: "don-mcenery"
imdb_id: "nm0568490"
tmdb_id: 57670
wikidata_id: "Q22083699"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T01:03:46.155535+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."
---

# Don McEnery

## Identity

Don McEnery

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/don-mcenery
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** don-mcenery
- **IMDb ID:** nm0568490
- **TMDB ID:** 57670
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22083699
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22083699, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568490/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57670

Writer. Born in Long Island, New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 1989–1998
- **Frequently works with:** [Bob Shaw](https://film.one/person/bob-shaw-57671.md), [Julia Louis-Dreyfus](https://film.one/person/julia-louis-dreyfus.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 90 (1), 1990s 74 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Adventure 2, Animation 2, Family 2, Fantasy 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $616m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22083699, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568490/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57670

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Hercules*](https://film.one/film/hercules.md) (75), [*A Bug's Life*](https://film.one/film/a-bugs-life.md) (73)
- **Netflix:** [*Seinfeld*](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md) (90)

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

## Biography

Don McEnery is an American screenwriter and comedian. He co-wrote the season-three Seinfeld episode 'The Tape' (1991) with Bob Shaw; the story drew on a real incident from McEnery's stand-up career and received a Primetime Emmy nomination.

McEnery began performing stand-up in New York clubs before moving to Los Angeles. In the mid-1990s he joined the writing team for the Disney animated film *Hercules* (1997). He later contributed to the screenplay for Pixar's *A Bug's Life* (1998). Additional credits include *Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild* (2005) and *Boo, Zino & the Snurks* (2004). He has also toured as a stand-up comedian, including several years opening for Howie Mandel.

*Sources: midtownmag.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *A Bug's Life* (1998), Fi1m 73, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/a-bugs-life.md)
- *Hercules* (1997), Fi1m 75, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/hercules.md)
- *Seinfeld* (1989), Fi1m 90, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild* (2005), Screenplay
- *Back to Gaya* (2004), Screenplay
- *Melvin Goes to Dinner* (2003), as Policeman #2
- *Hercules: Zero to Hero* (1999), Characters
- *A Bug's Life* (1998), Screenplay — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/a-bugs-life.md)
- *Hercules* (1998), series, Characters
- *Hercules* (1997), Screenplay — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/hercules.md)
- *Seinfeld* (1989), series, Writer — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)

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