Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jeffrey Katzenberg is an American media proprietor. He was the chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, a position in which he oversaw production and business operations for the company's feature films. After departing Disney, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG in 1994, where he served as the company's CEO and producer of the Oscar winning film American Beauty and many of its animated franchises including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon until stepping down from the title in 2016. He has since founded the venture capital firm WndrCo in 2017, which invests in digital media projects, and launched Quibi in 2020, a defunct short-form mobile video platform which lost US$1.35 billion in seven months.

21 December 1950

Born on the same birth date (21 December 1950): Lillebjørn Nilsen • Max Maven

Born on the same birth day (21 December): Anke Engelke • Cécile DeWitt-Morette • Heinrich Böll • Hu Jintao • John W. McCormack • Man Singh I • Michael Tilson Thomas • Mikheil Saakashvili • Minamoto no Yorinobu • Otis (wrestler) • Paul Winchell • Ryuji Sasai • Sewall Wright • Shaun Morgan • Steve Montador • Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton

Born in the same month (December 1950): Billy Smith (ice hockey) • Heiner Flassbeck • Helen Liddell • John Wesley Ryles • Lillebjørn Nilsen • Max Maven • Richard Dannatt • Simon Owen • Tim Foli