---
name: "Lee R. Mayes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lee-r-mayes"
fi1m_id: "lee-r-mayes"
imdb_id: "nm0562598"
tmdb_id: 57225
wikidata_id: "Q72847313"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "24 April 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T03:02:19.263511+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."
---

# Lee R. Mayes

## Identity

Lee R. Mayes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lee-r-mayes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lee-r-mayes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0562598
- **TMDB ID:** 57225
- **Wikidata ID:** Q72847313
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72847313, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562598/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57225

Producer. Born 24 April 1946 in Denison, Texas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 24 April 1946, Denison, Texas, USA
- **Active:** 2000–2003
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 producing
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72847313, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562598/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57225

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Scary Movie*](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-2000.md) (63)

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

## Biography

Lee R. Mayes is an American producer and production manager. Born on 24 April 1946 in Denison, Texas, he trained at Columbia University Film School, where he earned a master's degree in screenwriting, following college and service in the US Navy.

Mayes has worked extensively in production roles since the 1980s, serving as unit production manager or location manager on films including *House of Games* (1987), *No Mercy* (1986) and *Silkwood* (1983). As a producer he is credited on *Scary Movie* (2000), *White Chicks* (2004), *Little Man* (2006) and *Out Cold* (2001), and as executive producer on *Rudy* (1993), *2 Fast 2 Furious* (2003) and *Multiplicity* (1996). He has collaborated repeatedly with director Keenen Ivory Wayans.

*Sources: imdb.com, encyclopedia.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Scary Movie* (2000), Fi1m 63, as Amistad II Captain — [page](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-2000.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *2 Fast 2 Furious* (2003), Fi1m 61, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/2-fast-2-furious.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Phil Spector* (2013), Production Manager
- *Little Man* (2006), Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *White Chicks* (2004), Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *2 Fast 2 Furious* (2003), Executive Producer — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/2-fast-2-furious.md)
- *Out Cold* (2001), Producer
- *Scary Movie 2* (2001), as Hip Exorcist Party Goer · Co-Executive Producer
- *Duets* (2000), Executive Producer
- *Scary Movie* (2000), as Amistad II Captain · Producer, Unit Production Manager — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/scary-movie-2000.md)
- *Multiplicity* (1996), Producer, Executive Producer
- *A Low Down Dirty Shame* (1994), Executive Producer
- *Rudy* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Sidekicks* (1992), Production Manager
- *F/X2* (1991), Executive Producer
- *House of Games* (1987), Unit Production Manager
- *No Mercy* (1986), Unit Production Manager

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