Doug Lefler (born in California) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, and storyboard artist, best known as the director of the Dragonheart fantasy adventure film sequel Dragonheart: A New Beginning and The Last Legion. Lefler was born in Southern California and started making his first home movies at the age of twelve. He started in the film industry as an animator, having made short films as a child and then attended the California Institute of the Arts. His classmates included Tim Burton, John Lasseter, John Musker, and Brad Bird. After two years, he worked for Disney and other studios for several years as a storyboard artist and animator before progressing to directing. He worked for many years as a writer and storyboard artist on live-action features before getting his first chance to direct second unit on Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness in 1991. Description above from the Wikipedia article Doug Lefler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2025The Fantastic 4: First Steps — Storyboard Artist
• 2022Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — Storyboard Artist
• 2022Uncharted — Storyboard Artist
• 2018Deadpool 2 — Head of Story
• 2007The Last Legion — Director
• 2005Boogeyman — Co-Producer
• 2005Robots — Additional Storyboarding
• 2002Spider-Man — Second Unit Director
• 2000DragonHeart: A New Beginning — Director
• 1998A Simple Plan — Second Unit Director
• Mortal Kombat: Conquest — Director
• Spy Game — Director
• FX: The Series — Director
• American Gothic — Director
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys — Director, Director of Photography, Art Department Assistant, Directing Lighting Artist, Writer
• JAG — Director
• Xena: Warrior Princess — Director
• Babylon 5 — Director
• 1994Hercules and the Circle of Fire — Director
• 1993Ghost in the Machine — Storyboard Artist
• 1993Hard Target — Storyboard Artist
• 1992Army of Darkness — Second Unit Director, Storyboard Artist
• Widget the World Watcher — Writer
• 1989The Little Mermaid — Visual Development
• 1989Vytor: The Starfire Champion — Writer
• 1988D.O.A. — Storyboard Artist
• Denver, the Last Dinosaur — Writer
• 1987Steel Dawn — Writer
• 1986Soul Man — Storyboard Artist

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2022Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — Self - Storyboard Artist
• 2010Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)
• 2007The Pixar Story — Self (archive footage)