Brian Hohlfeld

Writer · Cast · Director

Born

March 30, 1957 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Birth name

Brian Joseph Hohlfeld

Brian Hohlfeld started his career writing feature films, with credits including the 1991 Paramount film "He Said, She Said," starring Kevin Bacon, and the perennial Lifetime cable movie On the Second Day of Christmas, with Mary Stuart Masterson and Mark Ruffalo. He contributed uncredited rewrites to several films including The Mighty Ducks and Elmo in Grouchland. A member of the Writers Guild of America since 1986, Brian worked for Universal, Warner Brothers, TriStar, Columbia, Touchstone, and New Line studios, where he wrote or re-wrote over 30 feature scripts and developed projects with directors Ron Howard, Richard Benjamin, Jonathan Kaplan, Brian Henson, and Ken Kwapis, and producers Brian Grazer, Jerry Weintraub, Joe Roth, and Maurice Sendak. Brian moved into animation working on Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh franchise, writing the theatrical releases "The Heffalump Movie" and "Piglet's Big Movie." He then created and was Executive Producer of the Disney Jr. pre-school show "My Friends Tigger and Pooh," and also served as E.P. for "A Poem Is..." a series of interstitials designed to introduce pre-schoolers to poetry using classic Disney animation. "For A Poem Is...," Brian had the privilege of directing celebrity narrators including Viola Davis, Jennifer Garner, Alfred Molina, Katie Holmes, and Jessica Alba. For Hasbro Studios' Brian co-developed Transformers: Rescue Bots, which became the longest-running animated Transformers show ever with 104 episodes. Over the course of its four seasons he served as Executive Producer, Supervising Producer, and Story Editor. As a freelancer he has written countless other episodes for animated shows ranging from "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" to "Sunny Day" to "Stretch Armstrong." He won a 2008 Humanitas Award for writing the "Tigger and Pooh" episode "Eeyore's Sad Day," and was nominated for the same award 10 years later for the "My Little Pony: FiM" episode "Surf and/or Turf." He has also been nominated for four Daytime Emmy awards and an Annie Award.