Happy Birthday Dave Filoni! He began as a storyboard artist and character layout artist with such shows as King of the Hill (1997-1999) and storyboard artist on Kim Possible. Then, he moved into directing with the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender in 2005. Dave went on to Lucasfilm Animation and was the supervising director for Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) movie and then the Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2013) animated series. He voiced the bounty hunter Embo in various episodes from 2010-2014. Then, he went on to working on Star Wars: Rebels (2014-2018) as executive producer.
Dave Filoni (left), along with writer/producer Simon Kinberg, and Freddie Prinze Jr. (Kanan) at the Star Wars:Rebels panel, Celebration 2015, photo by the author.
Dave Filoni provided the voice of the droid Chopper in Star Wars: Rebels and the Star Wars: Forces of Destiny. He developed the Star Wars: Resistance animated series. Filoni directed Star Wars in live action with episodes of The Mandalorian. He also played X-Wing pilot, Trapper Wolf, in “The Prisoner” (2019) and “The Passenger” (2020). Also, he returned his favorite character, Ahsoka Tano, in “The Jedi” (2020). Filoni is the executive producer of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. He is also executive producer of the upcoming The Book of Boba Fett. Filoni was recently made Executive Creative Director of Lucasfilm. Happy Birthday Dave!
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