Jonathan Kolia "Jon" Favreau directed Iron Man and Iron Man 2.
He portrayed Happy Hogan in Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Spider-Man: Homecoming, a deleted scene of Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Deadpool & Wolverine.
He voiced an alternate Happy Hogan in the What If...? episode What If... Zombies?!, an alternate Happy Hogan in the What If...? episode What If... Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?, another alternate Happy Hogan/Freak in the What If...? episode What If... Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?, and another alternate Happy Hogan/Freak in the What If...? episode What If... The Avengers Assembled in 1602?.
He was an executive producer on Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
He was interviewed for the documentaries Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe, Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee, and the Assembled episode The Making of Black Widow.
He also portrayed an alternate Happy Hogan in the corporate advertisement Watch the Game.
Awards[]
- He was nominated for a Scream Award for Best Director for his work on Iron Man.
Trivia[]
- Before being hired to direct Iron Man, Jon Favreau was interested in directing Captain America: The First Avenger.[1]
- Jon Favreau is the first Marvel Cinematic Universe director to play a part in the film he was directing.
- The second was Joe Russo, who portrayed Interviewer and Fine in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Theo Broussard in Captain America: Civil War and Bobby in Avengers: Endgame.
- The third was James Gunn, who portrayed a Maskless Sakaaran in Guardians of the Galaxy.
- The fourth was Taika Waititi, who portrayed Korg in Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder.
- Jon Favreau is the father of Max Favreau, whom he worked again with in The Jungle Book.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Peter Billingsley in Made, Elf, Zathura: A Space Adventure, The Break-Up, and Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland, and worked with him again in Four Christmases, Couples Retreat, and Term Life.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Gwyneth Paltrow in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Kevin Feige and Avi Arad in Daredevil.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Stan Lee in Daredevil and Dinner for Five.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with J.J. Abrams, Seth Green and Paul Rudd in Dinner for Five.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Paul Bettany in Wimbledon and worked again with him in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Ahmed Ahmed in Swingers and Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Tom Morello in Made.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Sam Rockwell in G-Force and Made and worked again with him in Cowboys & Aliens.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Yvonne Zima in Love & Sex.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Gary Weeks in Identity Thief.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Kenneth Choi and Aaron Lazar in The Wolf of Wall Street.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Michael Keaton in Speechless.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Idris Elba in The Jungle Book.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Peter Dinklage in Elf.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Ken Jeong in Couples Retreat and Zookeeper.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Michelle Pfeiffer in People Like Us.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Paul Rudd and J.K. Simmons in I Love You, Man.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Willem Dafoe and Thomas Haden Church in John Carter.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Rhys Ifans in The Replacements.
- Jon Favreau previously worked with Jennifer Garner in Daredevil.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Robert Downey, Jr. in Chef.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Leslie Bibb in Zookeeper.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Scarlett Johansson in Chef and The Jungle Book.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Garry Shandling, Ben Kingsley and Richard M. Sherman in The Jungle Book.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Sarah Halley Finn and Florence Kasumba in The Lion King.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Donald Glover in Solo: A Star Wars Story and The Lion King.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Hans Zimmer in The Lion King.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Terrence Howard in Term Life.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Bradley Cooper in Brother's Justice.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Taika Waititi and Harry Holland in The Mandalorian.
- Jon Favreau worked again with Jon Watts and Christopher Ford in Skeleton Crew.
- Jon Favreau portrayed Foggy Nelson in the 20th Century Fox production Daredevil.
- According to Charlie Cox, Favreau made a reference to his portrayal of Foggy Nelson in Spider-Man: No Way Home; however, it did not make the final cut.[2]
- Jon Favreau is one of the actors to portray characters for both Marvel Studios and DC Entertainment. He portrayed Assistant in Batman Forever.
- Jon Favreau wrote the short-lived Marvel Comics series, Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas.
- Jon Favreau also voiced Iron Man in Robot Chicken.
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External Links[]
Jon Favreau on Wikipedia
Jon Favreau on IMDb
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