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name: "J.D. Dillard"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "26 December 1987"
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average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T13:21:00.047162+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."
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# J.D. Dillard

Director. Born 26 December 1987 in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 26 December 1987, Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Also known as:** Justin Dillard
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Dillard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115536180, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2300570/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1485406

## Coming up

- *Neuromancer* (2027-01-21), Executive Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Outsider*](https://film.one/tv/the-outsider.md) (68)

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## Biography

J.D. Dillard (also credited as Justin Dillard) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Born on 26 December 1987 in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, he began directing short films and music videos before making his feature debut with the science-fiction crime drama *Sleight* (2016).

He has since directed the survival horror film *Sweetheart* (2019) and the historical war drama *Devotion* (2022). Dillard has also directed episodes of the anthology and miniseries *Two Sentence Horror Stories* (2019), *The Outsider* (2020), *The Twilight Zone* (2020) and *Utopia* (2020). His father’s career as a Naval flight officer informed his work on *Devotion*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Outsider* (2020), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-outsider.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *Neuromancer* (2027), series, Executive Producer, Director, Creator
- *Devotion* (2022), Executive Producer, Director
- *Utopia* (2020), series, Director
- *The Outsider* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-outsider.md)
- *Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker* (2019), as FN-1226
- *Two Sentence Horror Stories* (2019), series, Director
- *The Twilight Zone* (2019), series, Director
- *Stray* (2019), Writer, Producer, Story
- *Sweetheart* (2019), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Sleight* (2017), Director, Writer
- *Star Wars: The Force Awakens* (2015), Visual Effects
- *The Exchange* (2013), Writer
- *Gigantic* (2010), series, Executive Producer's Assistant
- *Mariah* (2009), Editor, Director, Writer
- *Overheard in NYC* (2008), Director
- *Judy Goose* (2006), Cook / Grandfather, Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Editor
- *Quick Change* (2005), Big Jerk, Director, Executive Producer, Editor
- *Untitled Young Lee Shaw Prequel Series*, series, Director
- *The Strange*, Director, Producer

## Gallery

- ![J.D. Dillard](https://film.one/media/person/707458/gallery-d488ad83ca0f.jpg) J.D. Dillard — Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/J.D._Dillard_2022_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-J.D._Dillard_2022_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![J.D. Dillard](https://film.one/media/person/707458/gallery-8d23226614d2.jpg) J.D. Dillard — Image via TMDB

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