Director
Tim Story
56 years · Los Angeles, California, USA · 23 films
Timothy Kevin Story (born March 13, 1970) is an American film director. He is best known for Barbershop (2002), Fantastic Four (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), and the Ride Along franchise. He has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Directing in a Feature Film/Television Movie in 2006 and 2013. He is a Los Angeles native and the founder of The Story Company, a production company co-founded with his future wife, Vicky, in 1996. He is the first African-American film director to have grossed over one billion USD at the box office.
Best known for
Filmography 23
72 HOURS
2026 · Director, Producer
On Netflix
The Pickup
2025 · Director, Producer
On Amazon Prime Video
Dashing Through the Snow
2023 · Director
On Disney Plus
The Blackening
2023 · Director, Producer
Praise This
2023 · Producer
On Peacock Premium
Tom & Jerry
2021 · Pigeon Announcer (voice), Director
Shaft
2019 · Director
On YouTube TV
Kevin Hart: What Now?
2016 · Director
On Plex
Ride Along 2
2016 · Director
On Philo
Think Like a Man Too
2014 · Director
On Tubi TV
Ride Along
2014 · Director
On Philo
Think Like a Man
2012 · Director
Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain
2011 · Director
On Philo
Hurricane Season
2010 · Director
On fuboTV
First Sunday
2008 · Producer
On ALLBLK
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007 · Director
On Disney Plus
Fantastic Four Video Diary Tour
2005 · Self
Fantastic Four
2005 · Director
On Disney Plus
Taxi
2004 · Director
On fuboTV
Barbershop
2002 · Director
On Philo
Urban Menace
1999 · Writer
On Hoopla
The Firing Squad
1999 · Director, Writer
One of Us Tripped
1997 · Director, Editor