Dave Filoni

Dave Filoni
Dave Filoni at the Star Wars Weekends
Born	(1974-06-07) June 7, 1974 (age 42) Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation	Animation director, animator, screenwriter, voice actor

Dave Filoni (born June 7, 1974) is an American animation director, voice actor, writer, and animator. He is most known for his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He is also an executive producer on Star Wars Rebels for all seasons, and for the first 2 seasons he served as its supervising director. Justin Ridge succeeded him as supervising director in September 2016 when Filoni accepted a promotion to oversee all of Lucasfilm Animation projects.

Dave Filoni grew up in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended the Mt. Lebanon High School and the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Dave was in the marching band at Mt. Lebanon, and he was the starting goaltender for half of his senior year on the hockey team. Additionally, he designed and painted several murals at Mt. Lebanon High School, which have since been removed due to renovations.

Prior to his work on Star Wars, Filoni worked on episodes of the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

He is the director of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars feature film, and the supervising director of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series.

Whilst on The Star Wars Show Filoni revealed that he originally believed he was being pranked when given the Star Wars Job. Filoni made an appearance at Celebration IV on Sunday, May 28, 2007 with producer Catherine Winder in the Celebration Theater (Room 408AB), to discuss the beginnings of the new television series and reveal how The Clone Wars is being created. At the time, he announced he would be writing for the Clone Wars monthly comic. Filoni voices the bounty hunter Embo during various episodes in different seasons.