---
name: "Malcolm D. Lee"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/malcolm-d-lee"
fi1m_id: "malcolm-d-lee"
imdb_id: "nm0002700"
tmdb_id: 72024
wikidata_id: "Q3843845"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "11 January 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T03:50:27.143470+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."
---

# Malcolm D. Lee

## Identity

Malcolm D. Lee

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/malcolm-d-lee
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** malcolm-d-lee
- **IMDb ID:** nm0002700
- **TMDB ID:** 72024
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3843845
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_D._Lee, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3843845, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002700/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72024

Producer and director. Born 11 January 1970 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 11 January 1970, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1995–2005
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 producing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 74 (1), 2000s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_D._Lee, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3843845, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002700/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72024

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Everybody Hates Chris*](https://film.one/tv/everybody-hates-chris.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Malcolm D. Lee (born 11 January 1970) is an American film and television director. Born in Queens, New York City, he is a graduate of Packer Collegiate Institute and Georgetown University. He is the cousin of filmmaker Spike Lee.

Lee has directed comedy films including *The Best Man* (1999), *Undercover Brother* (2002), *Roll Bounce* (2005), *Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins* (2008), *Soul Men* (2008), *Scary Movie 5* (2013), *The Best Man Holiday* (2013), *Barbershop: The Next Cut* (2016), *Girls Trip* (2017), *Night School* (2018) and *Space Jam: A New Legacy* (2021). He also directed an episode of the series *Everybody Hates Chris* (2005) and episodes of *Wu-Tang: An American Saga* (2019). He created and directed the miniseries *The Best Man: The Final Chapters* (2022).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *Everybody Hates Chris* (2005), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/everybody-hates-chris.md)

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

- *Clockers* (1995), Fi1m 74, Producer's Assistant — [page](https://film.one/film/clockers.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *Strung* (2026), Director, Producer
- *The Keeper* (2025), Producer
- *The Best Man: The Final Chapters* (2022), series, Executive Producer, Characters, Director, Writer, Creator
- *Harlem* (2021), series, as Malcolm Lee · Director, Executive Producer
- *Finding Kendrick Johnson* (2021), Producer
- *Space Jam: A New Legacy* (2021), Director
- *30 for 30: The Bunny & the GOAT* (2021), Director
- *Wu-Tang: An American Saga* (2019), series, Director
- *Night School* (2018), Director, Executive Producer
- *Girls Trip* (2017), Director, Producer
- *Shots Fired* (2017), series, Director
- *Barbershop: The Next Cut* (2016), Director, Executive Producer
- *The Best Man Holiday* (2013), Director, Writer, Producer, Characters
- *Scary Movie 5* (2013), Director
- *Life's Poison* (2011), Director
- *Soul Men* (2008), Director
- *Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins* (2008), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Roll Bounce* (2005), Director
- *Everybody Hates Chris* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/everybody-hates-chris.md)
- *Undercover Brother* (2002), Director
- *The Best Man* (1999), as Emcee · Director, Writer
- *Clockers* (1995), Producer's Assistant — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/clockers.md)
- *Malcolm X* (1992), Set Production Assistant, Post Production Assistant — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/malcolm-x.md)
- *Untitled Kevin Hart/Malcolm D. Lee Action-Comedy*, Director, Producer
- *The Fall*, Producer
- *Girls Trip 2*, Director
- *The Untitled Double Dutch Project*, Executive Producer
- *I Almost Forgot About You*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Malcolm D. Lee at the Essence Festival of Culture 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana in July 2025.](https://film.one/media/person/1068860/gallery-6f5f231cbeae.jpg) Malcolm D. Lee at the Essence Festival of Culture 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana in July 2025. — Danielle G. Campbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Malcolm_D._Lee_at_EssenceFest_2025.jpg/1280px-Malcolm_D._Lee_at_EssenceFest_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Malcolm D. Lee](https://film.one/media/person/1068860/gallery-2e5fc67c8e5a.jpg) Malcolm D. Lee — Danielle G. Campbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Malcolm_D._Lee_at_EssenceFest_2025_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Malcolm_D._Lee_at_EssenceFest_2025_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Malcolm D. Lee at the Essence Festival of Culture 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana in July 2025.](https://film.one/media/person/1068860/gallery-09df895fb6b2.jpg) Malcolm D. Lee at the Essence Festival of Culture 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana in July 2025. — Danielle G. Campbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Malcolm_D._Lee_at_EssenceFest_2025_-_01.jpg/1280px-Malcolm_D._Lee_at_EssenceFest_2025_-_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Malcolm D. Lee](https://film.one/media/person/1068860/gallery-4a61c9517111.jpg) Malcolm D. Lee — Image via TMDB

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