---
name: "Harald Zwart"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harald-zwart"
fi1m_id: "harald-zwart"
imdb_id: "nm0958969"
tmdb_id: 21981
wikidata_id: "Q962552"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 July 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T13:11:48.411045+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."
---

# Harald Zwart

## Identity

Harald Zwart

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harald-zwart
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harald-zwart
- **IMDb ID:** nm0958969
- **TMDB ID:** 21981
- **Wikidata ID:** Q962552
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Zwart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q962552, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0958969/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21981

Director. Born 1 July 1965 in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 July 1965, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
- **Active:** 2010–2013
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Zwart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q962552, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0958969/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21981

## Coming up

- *ViQueens* (2026-12-26), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones*](https://film.one/film/the-mortal-instruments-city-of-bones.md) (38)

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

## Biography

Harald Zwart is a Dutch-Norwegian film director, writer and producer. Born in Leiden, Netherlands, in 1965, he was raised in Fredrikstad, Norway, and trained at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam.

He began his career with short films, music videos and commercials before directing features including *Hamilton* (1998), *One Night at McCool's* (2001), *Agent Cody Banks* (2003), *The Pink Panther 2* (2009), *The Karate Kid* (2010) and *The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* (2013). Later credits include *The 12th Man* (2017). He co-founded the production company Zwart Arbeid with his wife, producer Veslemøy Ruud Zwart.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, snl.no.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* (2013), Fi1m 38, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mortal-instruments-city-of-bones.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *ViQueens* (2026), Director, Writer
- *Christmas As Usual* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Troll* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Long Flat Balls III* (2022), Director
- *Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes* (2021), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Cadaver* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Amundsen* (2019), Executive Producer
- *The Oil Fund* (2018), series, Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
- *The 12th Man* (2017), Director, Producer
- *The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* (2013), Director — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mortal-instruments-city-of-bones.md)
- *a-ha: The Videos 1984–2010* (2011), Director
- *The Karate Kid* (2010), Director
- *Empty Barrels* (2010), Executive Producer
- *The Pink Panther 2* (2009), Director
- *Dead Snow* (2009), Executive Producer
- *Long Flat Balls II* (2008), Director
- *Long Flat Balls* (2006), Co-Director
- *Rikets Røst* (2005), series, Actor
- *Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London* (2004), Story
- *Agent Cody Banks* (2003), Director
- *Noe med film* (2003), Actor
- *One Night at McCool's* (2001), Director
- *Hamilton* (1998), Director
- *The Cabin* (1996), Director
- *The Last Lieutenant* (1993), Assistant Director
- *Act Naturally* (1993), Director
- *Parents* (1992), Writer, Editor, Director
- *Buicken - store gutter gråter ikke* (1991), as Ung arbeider
- *The Northern Crown*, Director
- *Betrayed*, Director
- *Into the Lion’s Mouth*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Harald Zwart speaking at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego,](https://film.one/media/person/5701960/gallery-74d48a1ee5ed.jpg) Harald Zwart speaking at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Harald_Zwart%2C_2013_San_Diego_Comic-Con_International.jpg/1280px-Harald_Zwart%2C_2013_San_Diego_Comic-Con_International.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Harald Zwart speaking at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego,](https://film.one/media/person/5701960/gallery-08c314e46e7a.jpg) Harald Zwart speaking at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Harald_Zwart%2C_2013_San_Diego_Comic-Con_International_%28crop%29.jpg/1280px-Harald_Zwart%2C_2013_San_Diego_Comic-Con_International_%28crop%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Harald Zwart](https://film.one/media/person/5701960/gallery-833067f40c7e.jpg) Harald Zwart — Ian Smith from London, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Harald_Zwart.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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