Phil Klemmer

Phil Klemmer is an American television writer and producer. He is well known for his work on UPN's Veronica Mars, and for the NBC series Chuck. 2Life and career Klemmer grew up being kept from media outlets, including most television, saying, "...at a certain point my parents tried to brainwash me into thinking that television was evil. So then I didn't really watch television for the rest of my childhood. I read books and it was terrible. It wasn't until I really was working in entertainment that I actually bought a television and started watching things, so I had a lot of catching up to do." He majored in Classics in college; stating Indiana Jones as being influential in that decision. 3Early career He began his career as an assistant to director Michel Gondry, on his 2001 comedy Human Nature; as well as serving as cinematographer on Gondry's The Work of Director Michel Gondry. In 2005, he was hired as a story editor on the Kristen Bell fronted series Veronica Mars. He would later go on to serve as executive story editor, writing for fifteen episodes over the course of the shows run. In 2007, he joined the new NBC series Chuck, as producer and write