Cast & creator
Jim McBride
Best known for The Wonder Years, Six Feet Under, The Twilight Zone
Jim McBride is an American television and film director, film producer and screenwriter. Richard Brody, writing for The New Yorker, named McBride as one of the twelve greatest living narrative filmmakers, citing David Holzman's Diary as a "time capsule of sights and sounds, ideas and moods, politics and history", and "one of the greatest first films." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim McBride, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
38
film credits
4
television credits
8
1967–2026 · acting roles
6.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (42)
Showing 42 of 42 credits
The Wonder Years
Director
1988
Six Feet Under
Director
2001
The Twilight Zone
Director
1985
Fallen Angels
Director
1993
The Big Easy
Director
1986
Last Embrace
Man in Cantina
1979
Great Balls of Fire!
Screenplay
1989Great Balls of Fire!
Director
1989
Breathless
Screenplay
1983Breathless
Director
1983
The Beaches of Agnès
Self
2008
Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul
Executive Producer
2026
Uncovered
Director
1995Uncovered
Screenplay
1995
Birth of a Nation
Self
1997
Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back
Director
2000
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
1986
Blood Ties
Director
1991Blood Ties
Co-Producer
1991
The Informant
Director
1997
A Weekend at the Beach
Self
2015
David Holzman's Diary
Director
1967David Holzman's Diary
Producer
1967David Holzman's Diary
Writer
1967David Holzman's Diary
Editor
1967
Welcome to São Paulo
Director
2004My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law
Director
2009My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law
Editor
2009My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law
Writer
2009
Dead by Midnight
Director
1997
Glen and Randa
Director
1971Glen and Randa
Screenplay
1971
The Wrong Man
Director
1993
Pronto
Director
1997
Alan Jackson: Small Town Southern Man
2018
Hot Times
Writer
1974Hot Times
Director
1974
Pictures from Life's Other Side
Himself (uncredited)
1971Pictures from Life's Other Side
Director
1971
My Girlfriend's Wedding
Himself
1969My Girlfriend's Wedding
Director
1969My Girlfriend's Wedding
Editor
1969