---
name: "Rob Letterman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rob-letterman"
fi1m_id: "rob-letterman"
imdb_id: "nm1224299"
tmdb_id: 65630
wikidata_id: "Q428815"
roles: ["Director","Writer"]
born: "31 October 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T06:28:32.175402+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."
---

# Rob Letterman

## Identity

Rob Letterman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rob-letterman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rob-letterman
- **IMDb ID:** nm1224299
- **TMDB ID:** 65630
- **Wikidata ID:** Q428815
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Letterman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q428815, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1224299/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65630

Director and writer. Born 31 October 1970 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer
- **Born:** 31 October 1970, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- **Active:** 2004–2009
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Letterman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q428815, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1224299/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65630

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Shark Tale*](https://film.one/film/shark-tale.md) (40)

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## Biography

Rob Letterman is an American film director and screenwriter. He was born on 31 October 1970 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and attended the Mid-Pacific Institute and the University of Southern California.

Letterman directed the short film *Los Gringos* (1999), which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. He made his feature directorial debut as co-director of the animated film *Shark Tale* (2004), which he also co-wrote, earning an Annie Award nomination for writing. He later co-directed *Monsters vs. Aliens* (2009) before moving into live-action with *Gulliver's Travels* (2010), *Goosebumps* (2015) and *Pokémon Detective Pikachu* (2019).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shark Tale* (2004), Fi1m 40, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/shark-tale.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Goosebumps: The Vanishing* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator
- *Goosebumps* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
- *Pokémon Detective Pikachu* (2019), Director, Screenplay
- *Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Goosebumps* (2015), Director
- *Gulliver's Travels* (2010), Director
- *Monsters vs Aliens* (2009), as Secret Service Man #1 / Lieutenant (voice) · Screenplay, Director, Story
- *Over the Hedge* (2006), Thanks — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/over-the-hedge.md)
- *Club Oscar* (2005), Director
- *Shark Tale* (2004), Screenplay, Director — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/shark-tale.md)
- *The Silver Surfer* (1993), Visual Effects Director
- *Dropz*, Director
- *The Magic School Bus*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Jack Black and Rob Letterman at the Goosebumps panel at the 2014 Comic-Con International](https://film.one/media/person/5645140/gallery-76c169e25d01.jpg) Jack Black and Rob Letterman at the Goosebumps panel at the 2014 Comic-Con International — vagueonthehow, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Goosebumps%2C_Jack_Black%2C_Rob_Letterman%2C_SDCC_2014-2.jpg/1280px-Goosebumps%2C_Jack_Black%2C_Rob_Letterman%2C_SDCC_2014-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rob Letterman](https://film.one/media/person/5645140/gallery-db49313c2927.jpg) Rob Letterman — vagueonthehow, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Rob_Letterman%2C_SDCC_2014-2_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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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/rob-letterman