---
name: "Erik Jendresen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/erik-jendresen"
fi1m_id: "erik-jendresen"
imdb_id: "nm0420701"
tmdb_id: 33312
wikidata_id: "Q5388648"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "22 December 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T15:12:50.790067+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."
---

# Erik Jendresen

## Identity

Erik Jendresen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/erik-jendresen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** erik-jendresen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0420701
- **TMDB ID:** 33312
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5388648
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jendresen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5388648, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420701/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33312

Writer. Born 22 December 1959 in Milwaukee.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 22 December 1959, Milwaukee
- **Active:** 2001–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Christopher McQuarrie](https://film.one/person/christopher-mcquarrie.md), [Hayley Atwell](https://film.one/person/hayley-atwell.md), [Simon Pegg](https://film.one/person/simon-pegg.md), [Tom Cruise](https://film.one/person/tom-cruise.md), [Ving Rhames](https://film.one/person/ving-rhames.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 89 (1), 2020s 68 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 77 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Adventure 2, Thriller 2, Drama 1, War & Politics 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,170m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jendresen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5388648, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420701/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33312

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Band of Brothers*](https://film.one/tv/band-of-brothers.md) (89)
- **Paramount+:** [*Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One*](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one.md) (74)
- **Apple TV:** [*Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning*](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning.md) (63)

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

## Biography

Erik Jendresen (born 22 December 1959) is an American screenwriter, author, playwright and producer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Jendresen co-wrote the screenplays for *Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One* (2023) and *Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning* (2025) with Christopher McQuarrie. As co-creator, lead writer and supervising producer of the HBO miniseries *Band of Brothers* (2001), he shared a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries.

His other screenwriting credits include *Killing Lincoln* (2013), *The Big Bang* (2011) and *Ithaca* (2015).

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning* (2025), Fi1m 63, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning.md)
- *Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One* (2023), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one.md)
- *Band of Brothers* (2001), Fi1m 89, Writer, Teleplay, Supervising Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/band-of-brothers.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning* (2025), Writer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning.md)
- *Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One* (2023), Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one.md)
- *Ithaca* (2015), Screenplay, Producer
- *Killing Lincoln* (2013), Executive Producer, Screenplay
- *The Big Bang* (2011), Screenplay
- *Otis* (2008), Writer
- *Sublime* (2007), as Dr. Falk · Author
- *Crazy As Hell* (2002), Screenplay
- *Band of Brothers* (2001), series, Writer, Supervising Producer, Teleplay — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/tv/band-of-brothers.md)
- *Deadlocked* (2000), Teleplay
- *Broadsword*, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Photo of Erik Jendresen (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/8506/gallery-83b75db4bbef.jpg) Photo of Erik Jendresen (2023) — Loomings, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/304590_normal_square.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Erik Jendresen](https://film.one/media/person/8506/gallery-264fe6276145.jpg) Erik Jendresen — John Manard for Galaxy Con, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Erik_Jendresen_2023.jpg/1280px-Erik_Jendresen_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Erik Jendresen](https://film.one/media/person/8506/gallery-1057b9b8591a.jpg) Erik Jendresen — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Jendresen_Pilothouse.jpeg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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