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Andrew Waller

film director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ4758835 ↗
Source-derived summary

Andrew Waller is an American film director. He has directed the films Taking Five and American Pie Presents: Beta House, both of which were released in 2007. Prior to directing, he worked as a photographer on the short films Liquid (2001), Hairless (2004) and Miracle Mile (2004). In 2005, he directed and wrote the short film Candy Paint. He also worked as a location assistant on the 1996 film Mr. Wrong starring Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Pullman.

Editorial summary

“Andrew Waller” enters the record as film director. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Andrew, Waller and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2001, 2004, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Andrew, Waller and film.
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Why this record matters

“Andrew Waller” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Andrew, Waller and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4758835. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007, 2001, 2004 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andrew Waller” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.