---
name: "Pieter Jan Brugge"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/pieter-jan-brugge"
fi1m_id: "pieter-jan-brugge"
imdb_id: "nm0115764"
tmdb_id: 639
wikidata_id: "Q973342"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "6 November 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-04T23:06:12.602887+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."
---

# Pieter Jan Brugge

## Identity

Pieter Jan Brugge

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/pieter-jan-brugge
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** pieter-jan-brugge
- **IMDb ID:** nm0115764
- **TMDB ID:** 639
- **Wikidata ID:** Q973342
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Jan_Brugge, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q973342, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0115764/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/639

Producer. Born 6 November 1955 in Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 6 November 1955, Deventer, Overijssel, Netherlands
- **Active:** 1989–2010
- **Also known as:** ピーター・ジャン・ブルージ
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 1 acting, 5 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Michael Mann](https://film.one/person/michael-mann.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as producer, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (1), 1990s 81 (3), 2000s 67 (1), 2010s 81 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 73 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Crime 3, Thriller 3, Action 2, History 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 12 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $634m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Jan_Brugge, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q973342, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0115764/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/639

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*127 Hours*](https://film.one/film/127-hours.md) (81), [*Miami Vice*](https://film.one/film/miami-vice-2006.md) (67), [*The Pelican Brief*](https://film.one/film/the-pelican-brief.md) (63)

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## Biography

Pieter Jan Brugge is a Dutch film producer, production manager and occasional director. He graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam in 1979 and later studied at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles.

Brugge has frequently collaborated with directors Michael Mann, Edward Zwick and Alan J. Pakula. His producing credits include *Heat* (1995), *The Pelican Brief* (1993), *The Insider* (1999), *Miami Vice* (2006), *Defiance* (2008) and *Love & Other Drugs* (2010). He also served as producer, writer and director on *The Clearing* (2004) and has worked on the television series *Bosch* and *Bosch: Legacy*.

He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture for *The Insider*.

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

## On Fi1m (6)

### Performed in (1)

- *127 Hours* (2010), Fi1m 81, as Eric Meijer — [page](https://film.one/film/127-hours.md)

### Produced (5) — the average rests on these

- *Miami Vice* (2006), Fi1m 67, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/miami-vice-2006.md)
- *The Insider* (1999), Fi1m 89, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-insider.md)
- *Heat* (1995), Fi1m 91, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/heat.md)
- *The Pelican Brief* (1993), Fi1m 63, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-pelican-brief.md)
- *Glory* (1989), Fi1m 82, Unit Production Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/glory.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *Bosch: Legacy* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Bosch* (2015), series, as Matthias Ambroos · Co-Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager, Executive Producer, Director
- *Love & Other Drugs* (2010), Producer, Unit Production Manager
- *127 Hours* (2010), as Eric Meijer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/127-hours.md)
- *Defiance* (2008), Unit Production Manager, Producer
- *Miami Vice* (2006), Producer — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/miami-vice-2006.md)
- *The Clearing* (2004), Producer, Director, Story
- *The Insider* (1999), Producer — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/the-insider.md)
- *Bulworth* (1998), Producer
- *Heat* (1995), Executive Producer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/heat.md)
- *Clifford* (1994), Unit Production Manager, Producer
- *Fatal Instinct* (1993), Executive Producer
- *The Pelican Brief* (1993), Producer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-pelican-brief.md)
- *The Vanishing* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Consenting Adults* (1992), Executive Producer
- *Glory* (1989), Unit Production Manager — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/glory.md)
- *Looking for Eileen* (1987), Producer
- *Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo* (1984), Executive Producer
- *De afstand* (1981), Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2000: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Insider*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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