Michael Bay
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.
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Movies (43)
A Quiet Place Part III
Producer (Production)
2027
Drop
Producer (Production)
2025
We Are Storror
Director (Directing)
2025
Apartment 7A
Producer (Production)
2024
Transformers One
Producer (Production)
2024
Bad Boys: Legacy
as Self
2024
A Quiet Place: Day One
Producer (Production)
2024
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
as Porsche Driver
2024
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Producer (Production)
2023
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Ambulance
Director (Directing)
2022
The Forever Purge
Producer (Production)
2021
A Quiet Place Part II
Producer (Production)
2021
Songbird
Producer (Production)
2020
Bad Boys for Life
as Wedding MC
2020
6 Underground
as Reporter #4 (voice) (uncredited)
2019
Bumblebee
Producer (Production)
2018
The First Purge
Producer (Production)
2018
A Quiet Place
Producer (Production)
2018
Transformers: The Last Knight
Director (Directing)
2017
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Producer (Production)
2016
The Purge: Election Year
Producer (Production)
2016
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Producer (Production)
2016
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Director (Directing)
2016
Project Almanac
Producer (Production)
2015
Ouija
Producer (Production)
2014
Evolution Within Extinction
as Self
2014
T.J. Miller: Farm Hippie
as Self
2014
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Producer (Production)
2014
The Purge: Anarchy
Producer (Production)
2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Truck Passenger (uncredited)
2014
The Purge
Producer (Production)
2013
Pain & Gain
Producer (Production)
2013
Uncharted Territory: NASA's Future Then and Now
as Self
2012
Above and Beyond: Exploring Dark of the Moon
2012
A Man's Story
as Self
2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Director (Directing)
2011
I Am Number Four
Producer (Production)
2011
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Producer (Production)
2010
The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen
as Self
2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Director (Directing)
2009
Friday the 13th
Producer (Production)
2009
Horsemen
Producer (Production)
2009
TV Shows (7)
Born Evil: The Serial Killer and the Savior
Executive Producer (Production)
2024
The Purge
Executive Producer (Production)
2018
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Executive Producer (Production)
2018
Billion Dollar Wreck
Executive Producer (Production)
2016
The Last Ship
Executive Producer (Production)
2014
Black Sails
Executive Producer (Production)
2014
The Neighbors
as Michael Bay
2012