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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Thine Ears Shall Bleed
2024
Producer
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
2016
Screenplay, Story
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
2016
Writer
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
2010
Director, Writer
An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007
Characters
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
2004
Screenplay, Story
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
2004
Screenplay
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
2002
Screenplay
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
1998
Screenplay
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
1997
Director, Screenplay
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
1997
Executive Producer
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
1995
Writer
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
1994
Co-Producer
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
1993
Characters
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
1993
Screenplay, Producer
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
1993
Executive Producer
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
1991
Executive Producer
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
1989
Original Story
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
1989
Director, Writer
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
1987
Screenplay
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
1987
Screenplay, Producer
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.

Miracles
1986
Director, Writer
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
1985
Writer
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
1985
Writer
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
1984
Writer
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
1984
Story, Screenplay
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
1984
Writer
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
1983
Writer, Associate Producer
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
1983
Story, Screenplay
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
1983
Teleplay, Co-Producer
James Brolin plays a renegade canoeist who illegally runs a river to protest its exploitation by a greedy corporation.

Wacko
1982
as Prisoner
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookou...

Wacko
1982
Writer
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
1982
Screenplay
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
1981
Screenplay
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
1978
Researcher
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
A reboot of the 2011-2017 fantasy horror-drama series, in development at Peacock.