Jim Kouf

Jim Kouf

1951-07-24 Hollywood, California, USA 36 Credits

Biography

Jim Kouf was born on July 24, 1951 in Hollywood, California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Grimm (2011), National Treasure (2004) and Taxi (2004). He is married to Lynn Kouf.

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Thine Ears Shall Bleed

Thine Ears Shall Bleed

2024

Producer

7.0
Producing

In the 1860's American West, a minister and his family are traveling in a covered wagon when they hear a mysterious sound coming from the woods. Belie...

Money Monster

Money Monster

2016

Screenplay, Story

6.4
Writing

Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.

Vasos de papel

Vasos de papel

2016

Writer

6.0
Writing

An anonymous love letter left in Carli's locker wreaks havoc on his life, and the lives of everyone who come in contact with it.

A Fork in the Road

A Fork in the Road

2010

Director, Writer

5.9
Directing Writing

An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

2007

Characters

6.4

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben ...

National Treasure

National Treasure

2004

Screenplay, Story

6.6
Writing

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas J...

Taxi

Taxi

2004

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quart...

Snow Dogs

Snow Dogs

2002

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.

Rush Hour

Rush Hour

1998

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Dete...

Gang Related

Gang Related

1997

Director, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame t...

Con Air

Con Air

1997

Executive Producer

6.8
Producing

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" takin...

Operation Dumbo Drop

Operation Dumbo Drop

1995

Writer

5.2
Writing

Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through...

Silent Fall

Silent Fall

1994

Co-Producer

5.2
Producing

Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr. Jake Rainer. Jake tries to...

The Hidden II

The Hidden II

1993

Characters

3.9

The alien criminal from the first movie is dead, but he left a few eggs which are hatching now. The good alien, who still inhabits Tom Beck's body, ha...

Another Stakeout

Another Stakeout

1993

Screenplay, Producer

5.5
Writing Producing

A pair of immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lakeside home where an important Mafia trial witness ...

Kalifornia

Kalifornia

1993

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.

White Fang

White Fang

1991

Executive Producer

6.8
Producing

Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a...

Vandanam

Vandanam

1989

Original Story

7.2
Writing

Professor Kurian Fernandez escapes from jail with his cellmate Raghu. Inspectors, Unnikrishnan and K.Purushothaman Nair are sent to track him down. Th...

Disorganized Crime

Disorganized Crime

1989

Director, Writer

5.4
Directing Writing

Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do...

The Hidden

The Hidden

1987

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young F...

Stakeout

Stakeout

1987

Screenplay, Producer

6.5
Writing Producing

Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.

Miracles

Miracles

1986

Director, Writer

4.3
Directing Writing

Jean and Roger decide to divorce after 10 years, but 12 hours later, they're together again by accident. Their cars collide, swerving to miss Juan, th...

Secret Admirer

Secret Admirer

1985

Writer

6.8
Writing

An anonymous love letter left in Michael Ryan's locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who comes in conta...

Shaker Run

Shaker Run

1985

Writer

5.4
Writing

With the accidental discovery of a lethal bio-agent at her research facility, Dr. Christine Ruben decides to double cross her own government by steali...

American Dreamer

American Dreamer

1984

Writer

6.2
Writing

American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fiction...

Up the Creek

Up the Creek

1984

Story, Screenplay

5.7
Writing

Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represen...

Last of the Great Survivors

Last of the Great Survivors

1984

Writer

7.0
Writing

A dedicated social worker joins forces with a group of senior citizens fighting City Hall to prevent the demolition of their apartment building and fa...

Class

Class

1983

Writer, Associate Producer

6.0
Writing Producing

Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the ...

Utilities

Utilities

1983

Story, Screenplay

3.3
Writing

One of Bob Hunt's neighbours' electricity is cut off because she cannot pay the bill. She is assisted by contributions, and the bill is paid entirely ...

White Water Rebels

White Water Rebels

1983

Teleplay, Co-Producer

Producing

James Brolin plays a renegade canoeist who illegally runs a river to protest its exploitation by a greedy corporation.

Wacko

Wacko

1982

as Prisoner

5.1
Acting

Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookou...

Wacko

Wacko

1982

Writer

5.1
Writing

Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookou...

Pink Motel

Pink Motel

1982

Screenplay

1.7
Writing

A couple who own and run a cheap motel have to put up with an assortment of weirdos and perverts who rent rooms there on a Friday night.

The Boogens

The Boogens

1981

Screenplay

5.4
Writing

Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootlegging tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their h...

Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle

Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle

1978

Researcher

7.0

Part documentary/part dramatization, this film details several of the highest-profile unsolved cases of disappearances, mysterious changes in personal...

Untitled Grimm Reboot Film

N/A

Executive Producer

Producing

A reboot of the 2011-2017 fantasy horror-drama series, in development at Peacock.