Dave Filoni

Dave Filoni

David Filoni is an American film and televison director, voice actor, television writer, television producer and animator. He has worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Mandalorian, and on the theatrical film and television series of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He was also the creator and an executive producer on Star Wars Rebels for all four seasons, and served as its supervising director for all but the third season.

About Dave Filoni in brief

Summary Dave FiloniDavid Filoni is an American film and televison director, voice actor, television writer, television producer and animator. He has worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Mandalorian, and on the theatrical film and television series of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He was also the creator and an executive producer on Star Wars Rebels for all four seasons, and served as its supervising director for all but the third season. He is also credited as one of the writers and executive producers of the web series, Star Wars Forces of Destiny and as the creator of the 2018–2020 animated series Star Wars Resistance.

Filoni’s father was an opera and a classical music fan, according to composer Kevin Kiner ; as such, he inherited appreciation for classical music and helped with the collaboration process, with Kiner crediting Filoni for suggesting the organ in Grand Admiral Thrawn’s theme from Rebels. An avid Star Wars fan, particularly of character Plo Koon, Filoni dressed up as the Jedi Master for the opening of Revenge of the Sith, and was dismayed at the character’s fate in the film. While on The Star Wars Show Filoni revealed that he originally believed he was being pranked when given the Star Wars job.