---
name: "Llewellyn Wells"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/llewellyn-wells"
fi1m_id: "llewellyn-wells"
imdb_id: "nm0920318"
tmdb_id: 1219531
wikidata_id: "Q118126199"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T21:30:15.580902+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."
---

# Llewellyn Wells

## Identity

Llewellyn Wells

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/llewellyn-wells
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** llewellyn-wells
- **IMDb ID:** nm0920318
- **TMDB ID:** 1219531
- **Wikidata ID:** Q118126199
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118126199, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0920318/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219531

Producer and director.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Active:** 1990–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 producing
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118126199, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0920318/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219531

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The West Wing*](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md) (86)

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

## Biography

Llewellyn Wells is an American television and film producer, production manager and occasional director. He began his career in the late 1980s working on independent films, serving as unit production manager on *Bagdad Cafe* (1987) and production manager on *The Grifters* (1990) and *Stepfather 2* (1989). He later worked as associate producer on *Dogfight* (1991) and *The Adventures of Huck Finn* (1993).

Wells is best known for his work on the NBC series *The West Wing* (1999), where he held roles including producer, line producer and co-executive producer across 108 episodes and directed one episode in 2004. He received five Primetime Emmy Awards for the series, along with a Golden Globe and two Producers Guild of America Awards. He is the brother of producer and writer John Wells.

Subsequent producing credits include *Animal Kingdom* (2016), *Designated Survivor* (2017–2018), *The Rookie* (2018), *The Right Stuff* (2020), *The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey* (2022) and *The Walking Dead: Dead City* (2023). He has also served as executive producer on *Emperor of Ocean Park* (2024).

*Sources: imdb.com, televisionacademy.com, screenmag.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *The West Wing* (1999), Fi1m 86, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md)

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

- *The Grifters* (1990), Fi1m 84, Production Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/the-grifters.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *The Emperor of Ocean Park* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *The Walking Dead: Dead City* (2023), series, Producer
- *The Right Stuff* (2020), series, Producer
- *The Rookie* (2018), series, Producer
- *Under Suspicion* (2000), Line Producer
- *The West Wing* (1999), series, Director, Producer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md)
- *Touch* (1997), Co-Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *Kindred: The Embraced* (1996), series, Producer
- *Confessions of Sorority Girls* (1995), Co-Producer
- *Cool and the Crazy* (1994), Co-Producer
- *Jailbreakers* (1994), Co-Producer
- *Shake, Rattle and Rock!* (1994), Co-Producer
- *Girls in Prison* (1994), Co-Producer
- *Runaway Daughters* (1994), Co-Producer
- *Roadracers* (1994), Co-Producer
- *Rebel Highway* (1994), series, Co-Producer
- *The Adventures of Huck Finn* (1993), Associate Producer
- *That Night* (1992), Unit Production Manager, Co-Producer
- *Dogfight* (1991), Associate Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll* (1991), Co-Producer
- *The Grifters* (1990), Production Manager — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-grifters.md)
- *Waiting for the Light* (1990), Production Manager
- *Stepfather 2* (1989), Production Manager
- *Bagdad Cafe* (1987), Unit Production Manager

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/llewellyn-wells