---
name: "Jim Lemley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jim-lemley"
fi1m_id: "jim-lemley"
imdb_id: "nm0501391"
tmdb_id: 20720
wikidata_id: "Q1689140"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "9 March 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T05:42:56.416680+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."
---

# Jim Lemley

## Identity

Jim Lemley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jim-lemley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jim-lemley
- **IMDb ID:** nm0501391
- **TMDB ID:** 20720
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1689140
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lemley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689140, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501391/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20720

Producer. Born 9 March 1965 in Seattle.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 9 March 1965, Seattle
- **Active:** 1994–2008
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 64 (1), 2000s 78 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 66 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Drama 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $545m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lemley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689140, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0501391/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20720

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Wanted*](https://film.one/film/wanted.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Jim Lemley is an American film and television producer. Born in Seattle, he studied marketing at the University of Idaho before entering the film industry in the early 1990s. He worked at Icon Productions, where he rose to become CEO of its international arm, Icon International, based in London, contributing to films including *Maverick* (1994), *Payback* (1999) and *We Were Soldiers* (2002).

Since leaving Icon in 2001 to work independently, Lemley has produced *Wanted* (2008), *9* (2009) and *Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter* (2012), often in collaboration with director Timur Bekmambetov. He has also served as executive producer on *Red Eye* (2005), *Tristan & Isolde* (2006) and *The Diving Bell and the Butterfly* (2007). He is based in Paris.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Wanted* (2008), Fi1m 68, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/wanted.md)
- *The Diving Bell and the Butterfly* (2007), Fi1m 87, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-diving-bell-and-the-butterfly.md)
- *Maverick* (1994), Fi1m 64, Production Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/maverick.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter* (2012), Producer, Second Unit Director
- *9* (2009), Producer
- *Wanted* (2008), Producer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/wanted.md)
- *The Diving Bell and the Butterfly* (2007), Executive Producer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-diving-bell-and-the-butterfly.md)
- *Tristan & Isolde* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Red Eye* (2005), as Man on Fishing Boat · Executive Producer
- *We Were Soldiers* (2002), Executive Producer
- *The Three Stooges* (2000), Producer
- *Payback* (1999), Unit Production Manager
- *One Eight Seven* (1997), Unit Production Manager
- *Anna Karenina* (1997), Associate Producer
- *Maverick* (1994), Production Supervisor — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/maverick.md)
- *Airborne* (1993), Production Supervisor

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