Doug Lyman is an American director, cameraman, screenwriter and producer.
Douglas Eric Lyman was born on June 24, 1965 in New York City. His father was a lawyer, and his mother earned writing paintings and books.
Interest in the film industry appeared in the boy in high school, it was there that he made his first attempts to make films.
In addition to school, the future director was a student of Brown University, where he later co-founded a university cable television station, which he later headed.
After graduating from university, the young man continued his studies at the graduate school of the University of Southern California, where he created the comedy film “Admission”, in which Doug acted as a director.
In 1996, the director directed the film Swingers with screenwriter John Favreau. The budget of the film was 250 thousand dollars.
In 1999, a painting by Lyman
Ecstasy with a budget of six million collected at the box office $ 28 million. In the same year, Lyman shot a commercial for Nike featuring the world-famous golfer Tiger Woods.
In 2002, the famous "Bourne" takes its origin, and an adapted version of Robert Ludlam, which was performed by director and producer of the film Doug Lyman, is released - "The Bourne Identity". Box office tape with Matt Damon in the title role exceeded 214 million dollars.
In 2003, Doug began work on the teenage television series “Lonely Hearts” as a producer and director, and in 2004 he returned to work on “Bourne”, but this time only as a producer, the place of director is occupied by Paul Greengrass.
In 2005, he took on the production of Jeff Wadlow’s debut directorial work “The Single Wolf”, in which John Bon Jovi and Jared Padalecki starred.
One of the most successful directorial works of Doug Lyman in 2005 is the film.
"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" . The main roles in the film were played by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. At the worldwide box office, the picture grossed $ 478 million.
In 2007, Lyman continued to work on Bourne and acted as a producer of The Bourne Ultimatum. Like previous films, the film leads the box office and grosses $442 million.
In the period from 2008 to 2011, the director takes part in the filming of such films as
Teleport Based on the novel by Stephen Charles Gould and A Game Without Rules. Also from 2010 to 2011, Doug actively worked on the creation of two seasons of the series “Secret Operations”.
In 2014, Lyman’s new film “All You Need to Do Is Kill” will premiere.
Currently, Lyman lives in the Manhattan area and devotes almost all his free time to studying photography.