---
name: "Roger Nygard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/roger-nygard"
fi1m_id: "roger-nygard"
imdb_id: "nm0638630"
tmdb_id: 63983
wikidata_id: "Q3940097"
roles: ["Editor","Director"]
born: "28 March 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 67
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T00:53:49.655625+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."
---

# Roger Nygard

## Identity

Roger Nygard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/roger-nygard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** roger-nygard
- **IMDb ID:** nm0638630
- **TMDB ID:** 63983
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3940097
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Nygard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3940097, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/63983

Editor and director. Born 28 March 1962 in Long Lake, Minnesota, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor, Director
- **Born:** 28 March 1962, Long Lake, Minnesota, USA
- **Active:** 2000–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 directing, 3 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Grady Cooper](https://film.one/person/grady-cooper.md), [Steve Rasch](https://film.one/person/steven-rasch.md), [Bryan Gordon](https://film.one/person/bryan-gordon.md), [David Mandel](https://film.one/person/david-mandel.md), [Jeff Schaffer](https://film.one/person/jeff-schaffer.md), [Jonathan Corn](https://film.one/person/jonathan-corn.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 80 (2), 2010s 58 (1), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 67 to 66 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Nygard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3940097, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638630/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/63983

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Curb Your Enthusiasm*](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md) (84), [*White House Plumbers*](https://film.one/tv/white-house-plumbers.md) (58)
- **Peacock:** [*The Office*](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) (77)
- **Apple TV:** [*Who Is America?*](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md) (58)

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

## Biography

Roger Nygard is an American director, editor, producer and author. Born on 28 March 1962 in Minnesota, he began directing feature films in the early 1990s and gained recognition with the 1997 documentary *Trekkies*, which examined Star Trek fandom.

He has directed episodes of television series including *The Office* (2005) and *The Bernie Mac Show* (2001–2006). As an editor, his credits include multiple seasons of *Curb Your Enthusiasm* and Emmy-nominated work on *Veep*. Nygard has also directed and produced other documentaries such as *Trekkies 2* (2004) and *The Nature of Existence* (2010), and has written books on documentary filmmaking and comedy editing.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

### Directed (1)

- *The Office* (2005), Fi1m 77, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)

### Crew (3) — the average rests on these

- *White House Plumbers* (2023), Fi1m 58, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/white-house-plumbers.md)
- *Who Is America?* (2018), Fi1m 58, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md)
- *Curb Your Enthusiasm* (2000), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *White House Plumbers* (2023), series, Editor — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/white-house-plumbers.md)
- *The Truth About Marriage* (2020), Writer, Director
- *Who Is America?* (2018), series, Editor — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md)
- *Black or White* (2015), Editor
- *The Nature of Existence* (2010), Director
- *The League* (2009), series, Editor
- *Man About Town* (2006), Editor
- *The Loop* (2006), series, Director
- *The Office* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)
- *Zoey 101* (2005), series, Director
- *Trekkies 2* (2004), Director
- *The Bernie Mac Show* (2001), series, Director
- *The Search for John Gissing* (2001), Editor
- *Curb Your Enthusiasm* (2000), series, Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md)
- *Suckers* (1999), Director, Editor, Writer
- *Six Days in Roswell* (1998), Producer
- *Trekkies* (1997), Director, Editor
- *Back to Back* (1996), Director, Writer, Editor
- *High Strung* (1992), Director, Producer
- *Tales of the Unknown* (1990), Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer, Editor
- *CreepTales* (1989), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Monsters* (1988), series, Director

## Gallery

- ![Roger Nygard accepting award (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/62429/gallery-1bd1587673fb.jpg) Roger Nygard accepting award (2011) — Andy Ngo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Roger_Nygard_2011_Humanist_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Roger_Nygard_2011_Humanist_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Roger Nygard](https://film.one/media/person/62429/gallery-2e3b46106686.jpg) Roger Nygard — Andy Ngo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Roger_Nygard_at_the_2011_Humanist_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Roger_Nygard_at_the_2011_Humanist_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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