Jonathan Kolia Favreau ˈfævroʊ born October 19 1966 is an American actor director producer and screenwriter As an actor Favreau has appeared in the films Rudy 1993 PCU 1994 Swingers 1996 Very Bad Things 1998 The Replacements 2000 Daredevil 2003 The BreakUp 2006 Couples Retreat 2009 I Love You Man 2009 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 and Chef 2014 As a filmmaker Favreau has been significantly involved with the Marvel Comics franchise particularly in collaboration with Robert Downey Jr He directed produced and appeared as Happy Hogan in the films Iron Man 2008 and Iron Man 2 2010 He also served as an executive producer for andor appeared as the character in the films The Avengers 2012 Iron Man 3 2013 Avengers Age of Ultron 2015 SpiderMan Homecoming 2017 Avengers Infinity War 2018 Avengers Endgame 2019 SpiderMan Far From Home 2019 and SpiderMan No Way Home 2021 As a director he worked on the films Elf 2003 Zathura A Space Adventure 2005 Cowboys Aliens 2011 Chef 2014 The Jungle Book 2016 and The Lion King 2019 Favreau is the creator of the Star Wars Disney original series The Mandalorian 2019present as well as one of its executive producers and directors He also serves as a director and executive producer for its spinoff series The Book of Boba Fett He produces films under his production company banner Fairview Entertainment and also presents the television cooking series The Chef Show Description above is from the Wikipedia article Jon Favreau licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia