---
name: "Lee Sternthal"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lee-sternthal"
fi1m_id: "lee-sternthal"
imdb_id: "nm1600872"
tmdb_id: 929917
wikidata_id: "Q72847561"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T11:52:48.698403+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 Sternthal

## Identity

Lee Sternthal

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lee-sternthal
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lee-sternthal
- **IMDb ID:** nm1600872
- **TMDB ID:** 929917
- **Wikidata ID:** Q72847561
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72847561, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1600872/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/929917

Writer. Born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72847561, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1600872/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/929917

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*TRON: Legacy*](https://film.one/film/tron-legacy.md) (60)

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

## Biography

Lee Sternthal is an American writer, director and photographer. He contributed to the story of the science fiction film *TRON: Legacy* (2010), alongside Brian Klugman, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.

With Klugman, Sternthal co-wrote and co-directed the drama *The Words* (2012), in which he also appeared as Brett Cropsey. The film closed the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He has written screenplays for major studios and worked as a photojournalist for *Vice*, with his photography appearing in *Trace* and *Vice*. He is the grandson of jazz pianist David King Farber.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, pma.cornell.edu, the-numbers.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *TRON: Legacy* (2010), Fi1m 60, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/tron-legacy.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *The Words* (2012), Director, Screenplay
- *TRON: Legacy* (2010), Screenplay — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/tron-legacy.md)

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