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name: "Jonathan Liebesman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jonathan-liebesman"
fi1m_id: "jonathan-liebesman"
imdb_id: "nm0509448"
tmdb_id: 66739
wikidata_id: "Q953359"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "15 September 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T12:15:37.694888+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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# Jonathan Liebesman

## Identity

Jonathan Liebesman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jonathan-liebesman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jonathan-liebesman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0509448
- **TMDB ID:** 66739
- **Wikidata ID:** Q953359
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Liebesman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q953359, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509448/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66739

Director. Born 15 September 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 15 September 1976, Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Liebesman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q953359, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509448/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66739

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Halo*](https://film.one/tv/halo.md) (52)

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

## Biography

Jonathan Liebesman is a South African film director and screenwriter. Born in Johannesburg on 15 September 1976, he studied filmmaking at the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance and at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

He directed the feature films *Darkness Falls* (2003), *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning* (2006), *Battle: Los Angeles* (2011), *Wrath of the Titans* (2012) and *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* (2014). He has also directed episodes of the television series *The Shannara Chronicles* (2016) and *Halo* (2022). His cousin is director Dean Israelite.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, wikiwand.com, frontpage.co.za.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Halo* (2022), Fi1m 52, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/halo.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Halo* (2022), series, Director — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/tv/halo.md)
- *The Shannara Chronicles* (2016), series, Director
- *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* (2014), Director
- *Wrath of the Titans* (2012), Director
- *Battle: Los Angeles* (2011), Director
- *The Killing Room* (2009), Director, Executive Producer
- *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning* (2006), Director
- *Rings* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Darkness Falls* (2003), Director
- *Genesis and Catastrophe* (2000), Director
- *Wolf Night*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Jonathan Liebesman](https://film.one/media/person/3784368/gallery-09007dec6dc7.jpg) Jonathan Liebesman — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Jonathan_Liebesman_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Jonathan_Liebesman_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Jonathan Liebesman on the Battle: Los Angeles panel at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used](https://film.one/media/person/3784368/gallery-0a9d39178b81.jpg) Director Jonathan Liebesman on the Battle: Los Angeles panel at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Jonathan_Liebesman_%284839907181%29.jpg/1280px-Jonathan_Liebesman_%284839907181%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jonathan Liebesman](https://film.one/media/person/3784368/gallery-5e47c98f2581.jpg) Jonathan Liebesman — Image via TMDB

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