---
name: "Jim Painten"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jim-painten"
fi1m_id: "jim-painten"
imdb_id: "nm0656868"
tmdb_id: 1555340
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "10 January 1943"
died: "16 January 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 86
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T21:44:31.809207+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 Painten

## Identity

Jim Painten

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jim-painten
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jim-painten
- **IMDb ID:** nm0656868
- **TMDB ID:** 1555340
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656868/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1555340

Producer. Born 10 January 1943. Died 16 January 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 10 January 1943
- **Died:** 16 January 2025
- **Active:** 1990–1994
- **Also known as:** James Painten, James W. Painten
- **Average Fi1m score:** 86, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656868/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1555340

## Biography

Jim Painten was a producer and production supervisor in film and television. He is credited as a producer on the 1990 feature *The Grifters*, alongside Martin Scorsese and Robert A. Harris. His other credits include production supervision or management on television projects such as *My So-Called Life* (1994), *My Life and Times* (1991) and episodes of *Moonlighting*.

Painten graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and served with the Peace Corps in Iran. He began his career working on documentary films in New York City before moving to Los Angeles, where he joined the production team at ABC/Disney. He died in January 2025.

*Sources: imdb.com, thedailycatch.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *My So-Called Life* (1994), Fi1m 87, Production Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/tv/my-so-called-life.md)
- *The Grifters* (1990), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-grifters.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *My So-Called Life* (1994), series, Production Supervisor — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/my-so-called-life.md)
- *Other Women's Children* (1993), Production Supervisor
- *The Amy Fisher Story* (1993), Production Supervisor
- *Broadway Bound* (1992), Production Supervisor
- *Fugitive Among Us* (1992), Production Supervisor
- *Notorious* (1992), Production Supervisor
- *The Grifters* (1990), Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-grifters.md)

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