Phil Klemmer

Phil Klemmer
Occupation	Television writer, producer
Years active	2001 - present

Phil Klemmer is an American television writer and producer.

He is well known for his work on UPN's Veronica Mars, and for the NBC series Chuck.

Klemmer grew up being kept from media outlets, including most television, saying, "...at a certain point my parents tried to brainwash me into thinking that television was evil. So then I didn't really watch television for the rest of my childhood. I read books and it was terrible. It wasn't until I really was working in entertainment that I actually bought a television and started watching things, so I had a lot of catching up to do." He majored in Classics in college; stating Indiana Jones as being influential in that decision.

He began his career as an assistant to director Michel Gondry, on his 2001 comedy Human Nature; as well as serving as cinematographer on Gondry's The Work of Director Michel Gondry. In 2005, he was hired as a story editor on the Kristen Bell fronted series Veronica Mars. He would later go on to serve as executive story editor, writing for fifteen episodes over the course of the shows run.

In 2007, he joined the new NBC series Chuck, as producer and writer. It revolved around a hapless computer nerd that inadvertently downloads top-secret info into his brain, and is then exploited by the government. Klemmer rose to be supervising producer, then co-executive producer for the series' last two seasons. He contributed to a total of 14 episodes. While simultaneously holding his position on Chuck, Klemmer also became a co-executive producer and writer for the short lived J.J. Abrams produced espionage drama Undercovers. Writing episodes "Jailbreak" and "The Key to It All".

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