Michael Bay

Born: 1965-02-17 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Known For: Directing

Biography

Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use of special effects, including frequent depictions of explosions. The films he has directed include Bad Boys (1995) and its sequel Bad Boys II (2003), The Rock (1996), Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), the first five films in the Transformers film series, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), 6 Underground (2019), and Ambulance (2022). His films have grossed over US$7.8 billion worldwide, making him one of history's most commercially successful directors. He is co-founder of the production house the Institute and co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house that has remade horror films, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), The Amityville Horror (2005), The Hitcher (2007), Friday the 13th (2009), and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Bay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2027

A Quiet Place Part III ... (Producer)

2025

Drop ... (Producer)
We Are Storror ... (Director)

2024

Bad Boys: Ride or Die as Porsche Driver
Transformers One ... (Producer)
A Quiet Place: Day One ... (Producer)
Apartment 7A ... (Producer)
Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior ... (Executive Producer)

2023

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts ... (Producer)

2022

Ambulance ... (Director)
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self (archive footage)

2021

A Quiet Place Part II ... (Producer)
The Forever Purge ... (Producer)

2020

Bad Boys for Life as Wedding MC
Songbird ... (Producer)

2019

6 Underground as Reporter #4 (voice) (uncredited)

2018

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan ... (Executive Producer)
A Quiet Place ... (Producer)
Bumblebee ... (Producer)
The Purge ... (Executive Producer)
The First Purge ... (Producer)

2014

The Last Ship ... (Executive Producer)
Black Sails ... (Executive Producer)
Transformers: Age of Extinction as Truck Passenger (uncredited)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ... (Producer)
The Purge: Anarchy ... (Producer)
Ouija ... (Producer)
Evolution Within Extinction as Self

2013

The Purge ... (Producer)
Pain & Gain ... (Director)
All Is Lost ... (Thanks)

2012

The Neighbors as Michael Bay
Above and Beyond: Exploring Dark of the Moon
Uncharted Territory: NASA's Future Then and Now as Self

2011

I Am Number Four ... (Producer)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon ... (Director)
A Man's Story as Self

2010

A Nightmare on Elm Street ... (Producer)

2009

Friday the 13th ... (Producer)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ... (Director)
The Unborn ... (Producer)
Horsemen ... (Producer)
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen as Self

2007

Transformers as Guy Flicked by Megatron (uncredited)
On the Lot
The Hitcher ... (Producer)
Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel as Self

2006

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning ... (Producer)

2005

The Island ... (Director)
The Amityville Horror ... (Producer)
In The Blink Of An Eye ... (Consulting Producer)

2004

Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre as Self

2003

Bad Boys II as Crappy Car Driver
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ... (Producer)

2002

Great White: My...My...My... ... (Director)

2001

Pearl Harbor ... (Producer)

2000

Coyote Ugly as Photographer
Putting the Boom & Bang in 'Bad Boys' as Self

1999

Mystery Men as Frat Boy

1998

Armageddon as NASA Scientist (uncredited)
Armageddon: Target Earth as Self

1997

Taff as self

1996

The Rock ... (Director)

1995

Bad Boys ... (Director)

1993

Indecent Proposal ... (Second Unit)
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) ... (Director)

1992

MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self

1986

Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo as Sled Agent

1984

Miami Vice as Goon #3
Night Court ... (Production Office Assistant)

1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark ... (Production Intern)