Joe Russo Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter, Co-Executive Producer
Biography:: As one half of the brotherly directing team that also includes his sibling Anthony, Joe Russo was in large part responsible for the success of the critically acclaimed but criminally short-lived Fox television sitcom Arrested Development. Born a year apart in an Italian neighborhood of Cleveland...Read More

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Crashing

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Scott Campbell, Campbell Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Izabella Miko, Alex Kingston, David Cross

Synopsis: A writer suffering from a creative block stumbles into a situation most middle-aged man would envy in this independent comedy-drama from writer and director Gary Walkow. Richard McMurray (Campbell Scott) is a novelist who enjoyed overnight success with the publication of his first book, The Read More

2007
Carpoolers [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fred Goss, Jerry Minor, Jerry O'Connell, Tim Peper, Faith Ford, Allison Munn, T.J. Miller

Synopsis: Created by Bruce McCulloch of Kids in the Hall fame, the ABC sitcom Carpoolers chronicled the zany misadventures of four male suburbanites who, twice each working day, drove to and from the jobs in the same carpool. The unofficial leader of the quartet was Gracen Brooker (Fred Goss), a Read More

2007
You, Me and Dupree

Crew: Director

Actors: Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Seth Rogen, Amanda Detmer

Synopsis: A man is being driven crazy by his shiftless best friend, just as the layabout starts making nice with his wife and neighbors in this comedy. Carl and Molly (Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson) are a thirtysomething couple who have just gotten married and are settling down into a cozy new home in a quiet Read More

7/14/06
Abominable

Crew: Visual Effects Supervisor

Actors: Matt McCoy, Hayley Joel, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: With 42,000 sightings in 68 countries, the elusive woodland creature known as Sasquatch, Yeti, and Bigfoot is one of the most enduring natural mysteries ever known to man. Hunted by humans for hundreds of years, the formerly reclusive man-like beast strikes out against his would-be captors in a Read More

4/14/06
LAX [TV Series]

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Actors: Heather Locklear, Blair Underwood, Frank John Hughes, Paul Leyden, David Paetkau

2004
Lucky [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: John Corbett

Synopsis: Lucky was the weekly comedy drama series for which star John Corbett turned down the opportunity to recreate his role in My Big Fat Greek Wedding for the CBS spin-off sitcom My Big Fat Greek Life. The title was a bit ironic; to be sure, high-stakes gambler Michael Linkletter fully deserved his Read More

2003
Arrested Development [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Making its Fox network bow on November 2, 2003, the weekly, half-hour Arrested Development would seem to meet all the qualifications of a "cult favorite." It was smart, hip, and savagely funny; it developed a fiercely loyal circle of fans; it was almost universally beloved of the critical Read More

2003
Welcome to Collinwood

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Luis Guzman, Michael Jeter, Patricia Clarkson, Andrew Davoli, Isaiah Washington

Synopsis: A group of likable losers try to pull of what by their standards seems like a major heist in this offbeat crime comedy, loosely based on the classic Italian caper comedy I Soliti Ignoti. A group of sad sacks living in a rundown neighborhood in Cleveland all have one thing in common -- they need Read More

10/4/02
Pieces

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jonathan Rea, Joe Russo, Steve Shindle, John Buck Jr., Wendy James

Synopsis: The title is a pun reference to this film's parallel plotlines of guns and hairpieces: In addition to their Cleveland hair clinic, the three Russo brothers (Jonathan Rea, Joe Russo, Steve Shindle) also hold off-hour heists. After a botched robbery, it looks like their illegal activities could Read More

1997