---
name: "Rich Wilkes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rich-wilkes"
fi1m_id: "rich-wilkes"
imdb_id: "nm0929186"
tmdb_id: 53345
wikidata_id: "Q976467"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "15 August 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-05T02:40:30.013617+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."
---

# Rich Wilkes

## Identity

Rich Wilkes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rich-wilkes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rich-wilkes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0929186
- **TMDB ID:** 53345
- **Wikidata ID:** Q976467
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Wilkes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q976467, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929186/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53345

Writer. Born 15 August 1966 in Princeton.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 15 August 1966, Princeton
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Wilkes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q976467, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929186/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53345

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*xXx*](https://film.one/film/xxx.md) (52)

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

## Biography

Rich Wilkes (born 15 August 1966) is an American screenwriter, director and actor. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, he graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz and studied screenwriting at the American Film Institute.

His early screenwriting credits include *Airheads* (1994), *The Stöned Age* (1994) and *The Jerky Boys* (1995). He wrote and directed the semi-autobiographical comedy *Glory Daze* (1995). Wilkes created the xXx franchise with the screenplay for *xXx* (2002) and later co-wrote the Mötley Crüe biopic *The Dirt* (2019).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, scripts-onscreen.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *xXx* (2002), Fi1m 52, as Tall Guy — [page](https://film.one/film/xxx.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Bulletproof 2* (2020), Writer
- *The Dirt* (2019), Writer
- *xXx: Return of Xander Cage* (2017), Characters
- *Punk Like Me* (2006), Writer
- *xXx: State of the Union* (2005), Characters
- *Vegas Dick* (2003), Writer
- *xXx* (2002), as Tall Guy · Screenplay — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/xxx.md)
- *Beer Money* (2001), Producer, Writer
- *Glory Daze* (1995), Director, Writer
- *The Jerky Boys* (1995), Writer
- *The Stöned Age* (1994), Writer
- *Airheads* (1994), as Corduroy Rocker · Writer
- *Video Synchronicity*, series, Creator

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© 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/rich-wilkes