David Ellison

David Ellison is an actor and film producer who worked as Executive Producer on . Ellison founded the production company Skydance Productions in 2006 and collaborated with Paramount Pictures on several feature films. Ellison is also Executive Producer on .
Ellison is the son of billionaire software mogul . He started acting in 2005 when he played a student in the comedy The Chumscrubber. The same year he wrote, directed, produced and starred in the short thriller When All Else Fails. Further acting work includes the drama Flyboys (2006), the television thriller Blank Slate (2008, with Clancy Brown and Richard Cox), the comedy Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009, with Don McManus and Paul Lacovara), the Leverage episode "The Three Strikes Job" (2010, with Jeri Ryan and Mark Sheppard), and (2010, with Rico E. Anderson).
After he produced the shorts films The Sound of Football (2004) and Somebody Else (2005), Ellison worked as executive producer for Skydance Productions on (2010), (2011, with Simon Pegg), (2012, with Adam Scott and Brett Cullen), (2012, with Dwayne Johnson), (2012), and (2013, starring Chris Pine, with David Paymer). He also worked as producer on (2012, with Nicole Forester).
More recent projects as producer include (2015), (2015), (2016), and the television series Manhattan (2014, with Mark Moses) and Grace and Frankie (2015). Later projects were (2016), Africa, and (2019), and (2022)
Forbes magazine reported on 3 Apr 2024 that Ellison's company Skydance Productions was in talks to buy a controlling stake in Paramount Global, the company that produces all current Star Trek series and movies excepting Prodigy. 
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Category:Producers