---
name: "Seth Gordon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/seth-gordon"
fi1m_id: "seth-gordon"
imdb_id: "nm1164861"
tmdb_id: 71600
wikidata_id: "Q524897"
roles: ["Director","Producer"]
born: "20 July 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "director"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-13T21:47:24.374271+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."
---

# Seth Gordon

## Identity

Seth Gordon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/seth-gordon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** seth-gordon
- **IMDb ID:** nm1164861
- **TMDB ID:** 71600
- **Wikidata ID:** Q524897
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Gordon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q524897, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1164861/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71600

Director and producer. Born 20 July 1974 in Evanston, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Producer
- **Born:** 20 July 1974, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 7: 6 directing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Ken Whittingham](https://film.one/person/ken-whittingham.md), [Beth McCarthy-Miller](https://film.one/person/beth-mccarthy-miller.md), [Craig Zisk](https://film.one/person/craig-zisk.md), [Randall Einhorn](https://film.one/person/randall-einhorn.md), [Alex Hardcastle](https://film.one/person/alex-hardcastle.md), [Bryan Cranston](https://film.one/person/bryan-cranston.md), [Caroline Goddard](https://film.one/person/caroline-goddard.md), [Charles McDougall](https://film.one/person/charles-mcdougall.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as director, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 80 (4), 2010s 51 (2), 2020s 64 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 69 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 4, Drama 2, Action & Adventure 1, Mystery 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1, War & Politics 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Gordon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q524897, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1164861/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71600

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Parks and Recreation*](https://film.one/tv/parks-and-recreation.md) (83), [*The Office*](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) (77)
- **Hulu:** [*Community*](https://film.one/tv/community.md) (83)
- **Disney+:** [*Modern Family*](https://film.one/tv/modern-family.md) (77)
- **Apple TV:** [*For All Mankind*](https://film.one/tv/for-all-mankind-2019.md) (66)
- **Netflix:** [*The Night Agent*](https://film.one/tv/the-night-agent.md) (64)

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

## Biography

Seth Gordon is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He directed two episodes of the television series *The Office* (2005): 'Double Date' and part one of 'The Delivery'.

He directed the documentary *The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters* (2007) and the feature films *Four Christmases* (2008), *Horrible Bosses* (2011), *Identity Thief* (2013) and *Baywatch* (2017). Gordon has also directed episodes of *Parks and Recreation*, *Modern Family*, *Community* and other series, and produced or edited documentaries including *New York Doll* (2005) and *Shut Up and Sing* (2006).

Gordon attended Yale University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has produced documentaries for PBS, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations.

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

## On Fi1m (7)

### Directed (6) — the average rests on these

- *The Night Agent* (2023), Fi1m 64, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-night-agent.md)
- *For All Mankind* (2019), Fi1m 66, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/for-all-mankind-2019.md)
- *Community* (2009), Fi1m 83, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/community.md)
- *Modern Family* (2009), Fi1m 77, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-family.md)
- *Parks and Recreation* (2009), Fi1m 83, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/parks-and-recreation.md)
- *The Office* (2005), Fi1m 77, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Pixels* (2015), Fi1m 36, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/pixels.md)

## Complete filmography (40)

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

- *Under the Rainbow: The Curious Crimes of the Ruby Slippers* (2026), Director
- *Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day* (2025), Producer
- *Back in Action* (2025), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Dallas, 2019* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Finding Home: Journey to MLB* (2023), Executive Producer
- *The Night Agent* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Director — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-night-agent.md)
- *The Long Game: Bigger Than Basketball* (2022), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *The Lost City* (2022), Story, Producer
- *Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *For All Mankind* (2019), series, Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/for-all-mankind-2019.md)
- *Wrestle* (2018), Producer
- *Served Like a Girl* (2017), Producer
- *The Good Doctor* (2017), series, Director
- *Atypical* (2017), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Baywatch* (2017), Helicopter Pilot, Director
- *Bill Nye: Science Guy* (2017), Producer
- *Gleason* (2016), Producer
- *Sneaky Pete* (2015), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Pixels* (2015), Executive Producer — Fi1m 36, [page](https://film.one/film/pixels.md)
- *Finders Keepers* (2015), Producer
- *Deep Web* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Marry Me* (2014), series, Director, Producer
- *Print the Legend* (2014), Producer
- *The Goldbergs* (2013), series, Director
- *Identity Thief* (2013), Director
- *Undefeated* (2011), Producer
- *Horrible Bosses* (2011), as Ralph Peterberg · Director
- *Breaking In* (2011), series, Director, Creator
- *DiDi Hollywood* (2010), Director
- *Freakonomics* (2010), Director, Executive Producer
- *Hunted by Night* (2010), as Peter
- *Modern Family* (2009), series, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-family.md)
- *Community* (2009), series, Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/community.md)
- *Parks and Recreation* (2009), series, Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/parks-and-recreation.md)
- *Four Christmases* (2008), Director
- *The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters* (2007), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
- *Cry_Wolf* (2005), Producer, Editor
- *The Office* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)
- *Manual Labor* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Ground Control to Major Tom*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Seth Gordon at the PaleyFest Fall TV Previews 2014 for NBC's "Marry Me"](https://film.one/media/person/100957/gallery-b70292b87abf.jpg) Seth Gordon at the PaleyFest Fall TV Previews 2014 for NBC's "Marry Me" — Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Seth.Gordon.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Seth Gordon during a private screening of "HCommerce: The Business of Hacking You". (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/100957/gallery-d0675623649b.jpg) Seth Gordon during a private screening of "H*Commerce: The Business of Hacking You". (2011) — Seth_Gordon_and_Ed_Cunningham.jpg: Violet Blue
derivative work: RanZag (talk), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Seth_Gordon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Seth Gordon (director) and Ed Cunningham (producer) during a private screening of "HCommerce: The Business of Hacking You". (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/100957/gallery-76664901884c.jpg) Seth Gordon (director) and Ed Cunningham (producer) during a private screening of "H*Commerce: The Business of Hacking You". (2009) — Violet Blue, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Seth_Gordon_and_Ed_Cunningham.jpg/1280px-Seth_Gordon_and_Ed_Cunningham.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Seth Gordon](https://film.one/media/person/100957/gallery-144545d3b364.jpg) Seth Gordon — Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Seth_Gordon_at_PaleyFest_Fall_TV_Previews_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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