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David Schwimmer

David Schwimmer
American actor & director ('Trust' in 2010), best known for his portrayal of the character of Ross Geller in the 90s popular series 'Friends': a paleonthologist, he also was Monica's older brother & her best friend (Rachel)'s love interest. More recently he has taken to work behind the camera as a director with films like Run, Fat Boy, Run and Trust.



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David Schwimmer - news / articles


  • Schwimmer's fury over Mulligan casting in An Education - 6 July 2011
    -David Schwimmer has blasted "irresponsible" film bosses for casting Carey Mulligan as a teenage schoolgirl in An Education, insisting the lead role should have been given to a more age-appropriate actress.-The star was 23 when she filmed her scenes as 16-year-old Jenny,


  • Schwimmer horrified by internet content available to youngsters - 1 April 2011
    -Expectant father David Schwimmer is urging parents to keep tighter controls over their children's online browsing, because he's convinced easy access to inappropriate content on the internet is leading to a "loss of innocence" in the digital age.-The Friends star has st


  • Schwimmer loses Trust rating battle - 24 December 2010
    -David Schwimmer has lost a battle to lower the restrictive age rating for his controversial new film Trust.- -The former Friends star has stepped behind the camera to direct the harrowing movie about a teenager lured to a motel for sex by an online predator. The actor/d

David Schwimmer - what members say


  • Friends - Series 1
  • Friends - Series 1 review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars superb.................. 19 June 2007
    ..., Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Ross (David Schwimmer). the episodes are: 1. The One Where It All Began: Monica's old high school ...   Read customer review
  • Friends - Series 2
  • Friends - Series 2 review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars superb.................. 19 June 2007
    ...One With Russ'- Rachel's the only one that doesn't realize her boyfriend, Russ (David Schwimmer under a wig and makeup), looks just like Ross. 11. 'The One With the Lesbian...   Read customer review
  • Friends - Series 10
  • Friends - Series 10 review by A customer from York, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars you never get bored of watching it- Friends series 10 9 June 2005
    ... brilliant. All of the friends characters are ever so funny but Ross, played by David Schwimmer really out did himself in that one, also with his fake tan. you`ll love this dv...   Read customer review

David Schwimmer - filmography


  • Trust on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Clive Owen,  Catherine Keener,  Viola Davis
    Director: David Schwimmer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Safe and sound in their suburban home, Will and Lynn Cameron (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) used to sleep well at night. When their 14-year-old daughter, Annie, made a new friend on-line – a 16-year-old boy named Charlie – Will and Lynn didn't think much of it. But when Annie and Charlie make a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 8,410 members
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  • Trust - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Clive Owen,  Catherine Keener,  Viola Davis
    Director: David Schwimmer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £3.49
    Safe and sound in their suburban home, Will and Lynn Cameron (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) used to sleep well at night. When their 14-year-old daughter, Annie, made a new friend on-line – a 16-year-old boy named Charlie – Will and Lynn didn’t think much of it. But when Annie and Charlie make a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,605 members
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  • Little Britain U.S.A. (2 discs) on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Matt Lucas,  David Walliams
    Director: Michael Patrick Jann,  David Schwimmer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. With special guests including Sting, Rosie O'Donnell and Paul Rudd. As Little Britain goes American, there's old favourites and hilarious new characters in bucket-sized portions. Little Britain ventures across the ocean taking some of its favourite sons and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 975 members
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  • Run, Fat Boy, Run on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Hank Azaria,  Ameet Chana,  India de Beaufort
    Director: David Schwimmer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The lovable, but grossly overweight Dennis (Pegg) leaves his fiancee Libby (Newton) on their wedding day, only to discover a decade later that she's still his one true love. To win Libby back, he must become marathon-fit to compete with her new wealthy boyfriend and prove that he's still the man ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 97,921 members
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  • Run, Fat Boy, Run - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Simon Pegg,  Hank Azaria,  Thandie Newton
    Director: David Schwimmer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The lovable, but grossly overweight Dennis (Pegg) leaves his fiancee Libby (Newton) on their wedding day, only to discover a decade later that she's still his one true love. To win Libby back, he must become marathon-fit to compete with her new wealthy boyfriend and prove that he's still the man ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,283 members
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  • Big Nothing on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Simon Pegg,  David Schwimmer,  Alice Eve
    Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Despite being married to a cop, a frustrated unemployed teacher decides to take revenge on life by joining forces with an unpredictable scammer in a "foolproof" blackmailing scheme. But when absolutely nothing goes according to plan and things rapidly go from bad to worse, he discovers that little ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 14,069 members
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  • Madagascar on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Chris Rock,  David Schwimmer
    Director: Eric Darnell,  Tom McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The friendship between a New York City lion and zebra is tested when fate brings them out to the unforgiving wilderness in this computer-animated feature. Chris Rock does the voice of Marty the Zebra, whose longing to explore beyond his cushy Central Park Zoo boundaries is the impetus that ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 64,752 members
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  • Uprising on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Leelee Sobieski,  Hank Azaria,  David Schwimmer
    Director: Jon Avnet
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After Germany invades Poland in 1939, the Nazis decree that 350,000 Warsaw Jews be forcibly moved into an area known as the Warsaw Ghetto. Idealistic teacher Mordechai (Hank Azaria) decides the Jews must rise up against the Nazis and creates the Jewish Fighting Organisation (JFO). Determined to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 536 members
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  • Picking Up The Pieces on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Lou Diamond Phillips,  Lily Tomlin
    Director: Alfonso Arau
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In a mad rage, a kosher butcher named Tex (Woody Allen) murders his adulterous wife (Sharon Stone), chops her body into pieces, and buries them in a Mexican desert. In time, the dead woman's hand surfaces and an old blind woman trips over it. The fall remarkably restores her sight, leading the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 344 members
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  • Hotel on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Rhys Ifans,  David Schwimmer,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Mike Figgis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An experimental and challenging film from director Mike Figgis, HOTEL follows a movie crew in Venice filming a version of THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, which is in turn filmed by a documentary filmmaker. One of the movies ends in a bloodbath of torture, carnage, and cannibalism. But which one
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 665 members
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  • Apt Pupil on DVD (1998)
    Starring: James Karen,  Heather McComb,  Ann Dowd
    Director: Bryan Singer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Based on the novella by Stephen King, director Bryan Singer's follow-up to THE USUAL SUSPECTS is a harrowing psychological thriller about the relationship that forms between a boy and the neighbor he discovers is a Nazi war criminal. After a brief lesson in history class, star pupil Todd Bowden (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,037 members
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  • Six Days, Seven Nights on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Anne Heche,  David Schwimmer
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tough as nails New York magazine editor (Heche) is surprised when her boyfriend (Schwimmer) pulls the romantic stunt of spontaneously buying tickets for a romantic South Pacific getaway. The trip seems to be shiny and happy until they find out that a grizzled curmudgeonly pilot (Ford) is their sole ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 5,831 members
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  • Breast Men (1997)
    Starring: David Schwimmer,  Chris Cooper,  Louise Fletcher
    Director: Lawrence O'Neil
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A glory-seeking medical intern takes off on the fast track after inventing the silicone breast implant with the help of his supervising surgeon. But eventually, the weight of unchecked ambition--and concerns about the safety of their invention--put a strain on their professional partnership and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 368 members
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  • The Pallbearer on DVD (1996)
    Starring: David Schwimmer,  Gwyneth Paltrow,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: Matt Reeves
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom has no job, no girlfriend, no appartment and lives with his parents. Out of the blue he is asked to be a pallbearer at the funeral of a schoolfriend and give the eulogy. Some people can do this sort of thing - others just can't...
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 1,093 member
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David Schwimmer facts

5 most recent films

Madagascar 3 - Europe's Most Wanted - 4.5 stars
Trust - 3.5 stars
Trust - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Little Britain U.S.A. - 3.0 stars
Nothing But the Truth - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Band Of Brothers - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Friends - Series 7 - 4.5 stars
Band Of Brothers - 4.5 stars
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Series 4 - 4.0 stars
Friends - Series 6 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Duane Hopwood - 3 stars
Kissing a Fool - 2.0 stars
Nothing But the Truth - 4.0 stars
Madagascar 3 - Europe's Most Wanted - 4.5 stars
Friends - Series 1-10 - Complete - Blu-ray - 5.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Lisa Kudrow - 68 times - show films
Matthew Perry - 68 times - show films
Courteney Cox - 68 times - show films
Matt Le Blanc - 68 times - show films
Jennifer Aniston - 68 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 49 times - show films
Kevin Bright - 46 times - show films
Gary Halvorson - 27 times - show films
Sheldon Epps - 21 times - show films
Gail Mancuso - 16 times - show films