Director

James Ward Byrkit

Writing

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 1All crew credits: 18

TMDB ID: 146439

IMDb ID: nm0126096

Known for: Writing

Place of birth: USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1997 - 2025

Years active: 29

Average TMDB rating: 6.91

Wikidata: Q17182528

Also known as

Jim Brykit

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Director (7)Conceptual Design (2)Storyboard Artist (2)Writer (2)Co-Producer (1)Original Story (1)Producer (1)Production Illustrator (1)Story (1)

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Biography

James Ward Byrkit (also known as James Byrkit or Jim Byrkit) is an American film director, writer, and actor. He is best known for directing the science fiction thriller Coherence and co-writing the script for Rango, one of his many collaborations with Gore Verbinski. For Rango, Byrkit starred as several characters, most notably Waffles, a horned lizard. Byrkit also was the conceptual artist on the first three films of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and designed some of the most iconic sequences of the series. Byrkit also directed the short film Tales of the Code: Wedlocked (2011), which serves as a prequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).