Biography

Brian Herzlinger was born on February 19, 1976 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for My Date with Drew (2004), Once Upon a Christmas Wish (2024) and High Holiday (2021).

Brian thanked Patricia Underwood on his first film, My Date with Drew (2004). She was his high school Latin teacher.

He was born and raised in Marlton, New Jersey.

He attended Cherokee High School in Marlton, New Jersey.

Met future writing partner, Jay Black, in the fourth grade.

[on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)] I think it gave us permission to believe, and I'll tell you right now, one of my biggest things as a person, as a filmmaker, is being able to believe. If I didn't have that and didn't have that ability, I would have failed at this business.