Clayton Townsend

Clayton Townsend (born February 9, 1961) is an American film producer, television producer and production manager. Between 1988 and 1999, he collaborated intensively with director Oliver Stone as (co-)producer and associate producer. Notable movies from that period are Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers (1994) and Any Given Sunday (1999). Other notable producer achievements are Abel Ferrara's The Blackout (1997) and Where's Marlowe? (1998), directed by Daniel Pyne. He also served as an executive producer on the MGM comedy Heartbreakers (2001), directed by David Mirkin, and on Bad Company (2002), from director Joel Schumacher. In addition to feature films, Townsend has produced several television pilots for Paramount Television, including the 2004 television film Homeland Security. Since 1992, he is president of Itinerant Film Corporation, a private production company based in Los Angeles.

Selected filmography

Feature films Producer

Born on the Fourth of July (1989, associate producer) Natural Born Killers (1994) Nixon (1995) The Blackout (1997) U Turn (1997) Where's Marlowe? (1998) Any Given Sunday (1999) The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) Knocked Up (2007) Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) Year One (2009) Funny People (2009) Bridesmaids (2011) People Like Us (2012) This Is 40 (2012) Fast & Furious 6 (2013) Unbroken (2014) Zoolander 2 (2016) Bird Box (2018) Holmes & Watson (2018) F9 (2021) The Equalizer 3 (2023) Last Days (2025)

Executive producer

Heartbreakers (2001) Bad Company (2002) The Skeleton Key (2005) The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

Television Homeland Security (2004, pilot episode) Sleepy Hollow (2013, pilot episode) Scorpion (2014, 1 episode) Ripley (2024, 8 episodes)