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name: "Todd W. Langen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/todd-w-langen"
fi1m_id: "todd-w-langen"
tmdb_id: 175502
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T21:20:12.847948+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."
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# Todd W. Langen

## Identity

Todd W. Langen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/todd-w-langen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** todd-w-langen
- **TMDB ID:** 175502
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/175502

Writer. Born in Detroit, Michigan, US.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/175502

## Biography

Todd W. Langen is an American screenwriter and former aerospace engineer. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and worked on the space shuttle programme for Hughes Aircraft Company before turning to screenwriting.

His early television credits include an episode of the short-lived series *Pursuit of Happiness* (1987) and regular writing contributions to *The Wonder Years*, for which he received a Writers Guild of America Award for episodic comedy, a Humanitas Prize and a Primetime Emmy nomination. Langen performed a page-one rewrite of the script for the live-action film *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* (1990), originally by Bobby Herbeck, and received sole screenplay credit on the sequel *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze* (1991).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* (1990), Fi1m 71, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze* (1991), Writer
- *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* (1990), Screenplay — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles.md)

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