Jim Kouf
Jim Kouf was born on July 24, 1951 in Hollywood, California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Grimm (2011), National Treasure (2004) and Taxi (2004). He is married to Lynn Kouf.
Works
Thine Ears Shall Bleed
In the 1860's American West, a minister and his family are traveling in a covered wagon when they hear a mysterious sound coming from the woods. Believing the sound to be God, they worship it, until they discover the sound is something much more sinister.
Release Date: 2024-07-09
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1
National Treasure: Edge of History
While searching for history's greatest treasure, Jess Valenzuela unburies her family's secret past.
Release Date: 2022-12-14
Department: Writing
Job: Characters
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 202
Money Monster
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
Release Date: 2016-05-12
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2972
Vasos de papel
An anonymous love letter left in Carli's locker wreaks havoc on his life, and the lives of everyone who come in contact with it.
Release Date: 2016-02-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
Grimm
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.
Release Date: 2011-10-28
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 66
Vote Count: 3266
A Fork in the Road
An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.
Release Date: 2010-04-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 28
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Release Date: 2007-12-13
Department: Writing
Job: Characters
Vote Count: 5194
Ghost Whisperer
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.
Release Date: 2005-09-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 1738
National Treasure
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.
Release Date: 2004-11-19
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 6390
Taxi
A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
Release Date: 2004-10-06
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1065
The Handler
The Handler is a crime series created by Canadian writer-producer Chris Haddock, airing in the United States on CBS in the 2003-04 season. The show starred Joe Pantoliano as Joe Renato, an FBI agent assigned to train and handle young undercover officers in the FBI. Other cast members included Hill Harper, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, and Tanya Wright. Belknap and Harper would reunite as costars on the drama CSI: New York beginning in 2005.
Release Date: 2003-09-26
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 16
Vote Count: 4
Snow Dogs
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
Release Date: 2002-01-18
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 734
Angel
The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Release Date: 1999-10-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 921
Rush Hour
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
Release Date: 1998-09-18
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 5071
Gang Related
Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame the crimes on street gangs. Their scheme is going along smoothly until they kill an undercover DEA agent posing as a dealer, and then try to cover-up their crime.
Release Date: 1997-10-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 155
Con Air
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
Release Date: 1997-06-05
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 4264
Operation Dumbo Drop
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he'll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual. But for Capt. T.C. Doyle, the mission becomes a jumbo-sized headache!
Release Date: 1995-07-28
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 181
Silent Fall
Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr. Jake Rainer. Jake tries to probe the silent child about what he saw, but he gets more details about the Wardens' household dynamics from Tim's teenage sister, Sylvie. As he spends more time with the siblings, Jake learns that the Wardens' marriage was not as perfect as it seemed, and he uncovers other new details that might help solve the crime.
Release Date: 1994-10-28
Department: Production
Job: Co-Producer
Vote Count: 76
The Hidden II
The alien criminal from the first movie is dead, but he left a few eggs which are hatching now. The good alien, who still inhabits Tom Beck's body, has been waiting just in case this happened. Unfortunately, his presence in the body has taken a terrible toll on it, draining it of life energy. Additionally relations with Beck's daughter Juliet (now a cop) have deteriorated. But when the killing starts again, they will need to work together to stop the new generation of aliens.
Release Date: 1993-09-06
Department: Writing
Job: Characters
Vote Count: 30
Another Stakeout
A pair of immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lakeside home where an important Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading.
Release Date: 1993-07-22
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 222
Kalifornia
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Release Date: 1993-06-24
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 783
White Fang
Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.
Release Date: 1991-01-18
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 597
Vandanam
Professor Kurian Fernandez escapes from jail with his cellmate Raghu. Inspectors, Unnikrishnan and K.Purushothaman Nair are sent to track him down. They follow Kurian Fernadez's daughter to track him.
Release Date: 1989-05-14
Department: Writing
Job: Original Story
Vote Count: 19
Disorganized Crime
Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do have going for them are a cop and his partner, who are dumber than they are! By the time the gang hits the bank vault, it's a safe bet there's going to be organized insanity and disorganized crime!
Release Date: 1989-04-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 38
The Hidden
When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.
Release Date: 1987-10-30
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 424
Stakeout
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
Release Date: 1987-08-05
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 401
Miracles
Jean and Roger decide to divorce after 10 years, but 12 hours later, they're together again by accident. Their cars collide, swerving to miss Juan, the jaywalking jewel thief who decides to cash in on the crash. The ex-couple are kidnapped, shot at, cast adrift, mistaken for smugglers and even survive a plane crash. But the toughest torture these two endure is being trapped together.
Release Date: 1986-07-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
Secret Admirer
An anonymous love letter left in Michael Ryan's locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who come in contact with it.
Release Date: 1985-06-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 177
Shaker Run
With the accidental discovery of a lethal bio-agent at her research facility, Dr. Christine Ruben decides to double cross her own government by stealing the deadly formula to keep it out of the clutches of the military, whom she doesn't trust. To make her rendezvous with some confederates who promise to get her out of the country, she recruits daredevil driver Judd Pierson and his partner Casey Lee, who are down on their luck and take the job without knowing what they're getting into.
Release Date: 1985-05-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 8
American Dreamer
American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.
Release Date: 1984-10-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 23
Up the Creek
Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.
Release Date: 1984-04-06
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 84
Last of the Great Survivors
A dedicated social worker joins forces with a group of senior citizens fighting City Hall to prevent the demolition of their apartment building and falls for the man she meets on a blind date at a punk rock club. She soon learns that he is the building inspector who condemned the seniors' decrepit home, forcing her to turn to her amorous lawyer ex-boyfriend to find the loophole that will save the building.
Release Date: 1984-01-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Class
Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.
Release Date: 1983-07-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 183
Utilities
One of Bob Hunt's neighbours' electricity is cut off because she cannot pay the bill. She is assisted by contributions, and the bill is paid entirely in pennies, though the clerk is belatedly told that payment is not accepted in such a large quantity of coins. Unfortunately, the electric company fails to reconnect the power due to a communications snafu, and the elderly woman is taken to hospital suffering hypothermia. Hunt sets off on a vendetta of revenge, sabotaging assorted support systems.
Release Date: 1983-06-15
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 2
White Water Rebels
James Brolin plays a renegade canoeist who illegally runs a river to protest its exploitation by a greedy corporation.
Release Date: 1983-01-08
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Wacko
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.
Release Date: 1982-11-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Prisoner
Vote Count: 27
Pink Motel
A couple who own and run a cheap motel have to put up with an assortment of weirdos and perverts who rent rooms there on a Friday night.
Release Date: 1982-10-31
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2
The Boogens
Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
Release Date: 1981-09-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 65
Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle
Part documentary/part dramatization, this film details several of the highest-profile unsolved cases of disappearances, mysterious changes in personality and other strange occurrences related to the Bermuda Triangle.
Release Date: 1978-07-20
Department: Production
Job: Researcher
Vote Count: 6