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name: "Douglas Einar Olsen"
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roles: ["Storyboard artist","Director"]
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average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:01:16.974899+00:00"
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# Douglas Einar Olsen

Storyboard artist and director. Born in Smithtown, New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Storyboard artist, Director
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 78 (1), 2020s 61 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2685746

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Rick and Morty*](https://film.one/tv/rick-and-morty.md) (78)

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

## Biography

Douglas Einar Olsen is an American director and storyboard artist in animation and film. Raised in Smithtown, New York, he studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 2004, and continued his studies in Rome, Tuscany and Berlin. He is based in Los Angeles.

His directing credits include episodes of *Rick and Morty* from 2021 to 2026, *Fairfax* (2020–2022), *Golan the Insatiable* (2013–2015) and the 2015 music video 'Professional Rapper' by Lil Dicky featuring Snoop Dogg. He has served as storyboard artist or supervisor on the *Sonic the Hedgehog* films (2020, 2022, 2024), *Knuckles* (2024) and *Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons - The Movie* (2020). He received a Primetime Emmy nomination.

*Sources: dougolsen.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *Rick and Morty* (2013), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/rick-and-morty.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Sonic the Hedgehog 3* (2024), Fi1m 61, Storyboard Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/sonic-the-hedgehog-3.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Sonic the Hedgehog 3* (2024), Storyboard Artist — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/sonic-the-hedgehog-3.md)
- *Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons - The Movie* (2020), Storyboard Artist
- *$aving Dat Money* (2015), Animation
- *Major Lazer* (2015), series, Director
- *Rick and Morty* (2013), series, Director, Additional Storyboarding — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/rick-and-morty.md)

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