---
name: "Mike Werb"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mike-werb"
fi1m_id: "mike-werb"
imdb_id: "nm0108273"
tmdb_id: 11402
wikidata_id: "Q3313586"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 June 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 60
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T02:21:48.125038+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."
---

# Mike Werb

## Identity

Mike Werb

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mike-werb
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mike-werb
- **IMDb ID:** nm0108273
- **TMDB ID:** 11402
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3313586
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Werb, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3313586, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108273/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11402

Writer. Born 21 June 1977 in Los Angeles, California.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 June 1977, Los Angeles, California
- **Active:** 1994–2001
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 writing
- **Average Fi1m score:** 60, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 78 (2), 2000s 48 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Werb, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3313586, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108273/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11402

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Mask*](https://film.one/film/the-mask.md) (71)

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

## Biography

Mike Werb is an American screenwriter. A Los Angeles native, he attended Stanford University and graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Werb wrote the screenplay for *The Mask* (1994). With frequent collaborator Michael Colleary he wrote *Face/Off* (1997), for which the pair won a Saturn Award for Best Writing in 1998; they also share story credit on *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider* (2001). Werb created the television series *Unnatural History* (2010) and has additional credits including story work on *Curious George* (2006) and writing on *Firehouse Dog* (2007).

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Face/Off* (1997), Fi1m 84, as Hospital Dad — [page](https://film.one/film/face-off.md)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider* (2001), Fi1m 48, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/lara-croft-tomb-raider.md)
- *The Mask* (1994), Fi1m 71, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mask.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Salvation* (2017), series, Writer
- *Extant* (2014), series, Writer
- *Unnatural History* (2010), series, Writer, Producer, Teleplay, Story, Creator
- *Firehouse Dog* (2007), Producer, Writer
- *Curious George* (2006), Story
- *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider* (2001), Story — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/lara-croft-tomb-raider.md)
- *Face/Off* (1997), as Hospital Dad · Writer, Co-Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/face-off.md)
- *Things That Go Bump* (1997), Writer
- *Darkman III: Die Darkman Die* (1996), Writer
- *The Mask* (1994), Screenplay — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mask.md)
- *The Human Shield* (1992), Story
- *Food of the Gods II* (1989), Screenplay
- *The Secret of the Ice Cave* (1989), Writer

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