---
name: "John Erick Dowdle"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-erick-dowdle"
fi1m_id: "john-erick-dowdle"
imdb_id: "nm0235719"
tmdb_id: 77147
wikidata_id: "Q3181441"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "9 December 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T20:29:11.058790+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."
---

# John Erick Dowdle

## Identity

John Erick Dowdle

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-erick-dowdle
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-erick-dowdle
- **IMDb ID:** nm0235719
- **TMDB ID:** 77147
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3181441
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Erick_Dowdle, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3181441, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235719/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/77147

Director. Born 9 December 1972 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 9 December 1972, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- **Also known as:** John E. Dowdle, The Brothers Dowdle
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Erick_Dowdle, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3181441, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235719/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/77147

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Marshals*](https://film.one/tv/marshals.md) (44)

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

## Biography

John Erick Dowdle is an American film and television director and screenwriter. He grew up in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, attended St Thomas Academy, the University of Iowa and New York University’s film programme, and began his career with the feature *Full Moon Rising* (1996). He frequently collaborates with his brother Drew Dowdle as producer and co-writer under the name The Brothers Dowdle.

Dowdle is known for directing the horror films *Quarantine* (2008), *Devil* (2010) and *As Above, So Below* (2014), as well as the thriller *No Escape* (2015). He co-created the miniseries *Waco* (2018) with his brother and has directed episodes of *Joe Pickett* (2021), *Waco: The Aftermath* (2023) and *Marshals* (2026).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Marshals* (2026), Fi1m 44, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/marshals.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Marshals* (2026), series, Director — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/tv/marshals.md)
- *Waco: The Aftermath* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Director, Creator
- *Joe Pickett* (2021), series, Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Waco* (2018), series, Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *No Escape* (2015), Director, Writer
- *As Above, So Below* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Devil* (2010), Director
- *Transcendent Man* (2009), Executive Producer
- *Quarantine* (2008), Director, Writer
- *The Poughkeepsie Tapes* (2007), Director, Writer, Story, Editor
- *The Dry Spell* (2005), as Free Clinic Doctor · Writer, Director, Editor
- *School for Scumbags*, Director
- *Doctor Caligari's Cabinet of Wonders*, Director, Screenplay
- *As Above, So Below 2*, Director, Writer

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