Actor

Timur Bekmambetov

Production

Career Snapshot

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Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.8

Low visibility

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Movies: 67Series: 8Crew credits: 68

TMDB ID: 23430

IMDb ID: nm0067457

Known for: Production

Born: June 25, 1961

Age: 65

Place of birth: Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1987 - 2026

Years active: 40

Average TMDB rating: 6.01

Wikidata: Q344854

Also known as

Timur Bekmambetov • Timur Bekmambetow • Тимур Бекмамбетов • Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov

Other jobs

Producer (47)Director (10)Executive Producer (5)General Manager (2)Production Design (1)Production Director (1)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing Night Watch and Wanted, as well as pioneering the modern screenlife format. Through films including Unfriended, Searching, Profile, and Missing, Bekmambetov helped establish screenlife storytelling as a major evolution of found footage and digital-era horror. His work popularized films told entirely through computer screens, video calls, and mobile devices, influencing a new generation of internet-native thriller and horror filmmaking.