Favreau was born Jonathan Kolia Favreau in Flushing, Queens, New York, the son of Madeleine, an elementary school teacher who died of leukemia in 1979, and Charles Favreau, a special education teacher.

Favreau met Vince Vaughn – who played a small role in this film – during shooting.

Favreau appeared in 2000's The Replacements as maniacal linebacker Daniel Bateman, and that same year he played himself in The Sopranos episode " D-Girl ", as a Hollywood director who feigns interest in developing mob associate Christopher Moltisanti's screenplay in order to collect material for his own screenplay.

Also in 2003, Favreau had a small part in Something's Gotta Give ( a film starring Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson ); Favreau played Leo, Harry Sanborn's ( Nicholson ) personal assistant, who visited Harry in the hospital.

Favreau co-starred in 2009's Couples Retreat, a comedy chronicling four couples who partake in therapy sessions at a tropical island resort, which he also wrote.

The host was Marc Favreau, who also played Sol the Clown.

While working at the diner, she met millionaire Pete Becker ( played by Jon Favreau ), who used his money to open a restaurant and appoint Monica as head chef.

Conran was replaced by Robert Rodriguez, who was later replaced by Jon Favreau.

According to an interview on The Howard Stern Show, director Jon Favreau considered casting him as the titular character in Iron Man as the studio was initially hesitant to work with Robert Downey, Jr., who had been considered for his role in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

Liman became attached to direct Swingers when its screenwriter Jon Favreau turned down offers from studios who wanted to cast established actors.

His friend from college, Mitchell Pollack, said that Favreau went by the nickname " Hack " because of his talent in the game, Hacky Sack.

Favreau said in December 2010 that he would not direct Iron Man 3, opting to direct Magic Kingdom instead, though he will co-produce the film.

Director Jon Favreau and Walt Disney Pictures plan to produce and release a film concerning a family at Disneyland which finds the theme park characters and attractions coming to life.

When the project was transferred from Paramount to Disney, Favreau was in turn replaced by Andrew Stanton.

In one edition of the IFC program Dinner for Five much of the show was given over to a description of Demme's last night and fond reminiscences about his life, mostly by Denis Leary and the show's host Jon Favreau.

In 2007, Downey was cast as the title character in the film Iron Man, with director Jon Favreau explaining the choice by stating: " Downey wasn't the most obvious choice, but he understood what makes the character tick.

He was a guest-director for an episode of the college dramedy Undeclared in 2001, and Favreau got some screen time as lawyer Foggy Nelson in the 2003 movie Daredevil ( 2003 ) ( considerably more in the Director's Cut version ).

On April 28, 2006, it was announced that Favreau was signed to direct the long awaited Iron Man movie.

Favreau was the third director attached to John Carter of Mars, the film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' swashbuckling space hero.

Iron Man was the first Marvel-produced movie under their alliance with Paramount, and Favreau served as the director and an executive producer.

In July 2011, Favreau was featured in a YouTube video by visual effects artist Freddie Wong ( known on YouTube as the popular channel, " freddiew "), in a spoof of his then-upcoming summer film, Cowboys & Aliens.

This was followed by a fragment of a comedy sketch, in which all of the dialogue was in French, and which featured Sol using the terms introduced by Favreau.

Marc Favreau ( Sol ), ( born November 9, 1929 in Montreal, Quebec and died December 17, 2005 same city ) was a Canadian ( Québécois ) television and film actor and poet.

The Fulton-Favreau formula was a proposed formula of amendment of the Constitution of Canada developed by federal justice minister E. Davie Fulton and Quebec Liberal Guy Favreau in the 1960s.

The script was written by Jon Favreau.

One soldier, Corporal Arthur A. Favreau, 64th Coast Artillery ( Anti-Aircraft ), was killed on post by an errant Navy shell.

Millar was among a group of writers that included Brian Michael Bendis, Joe Quesada, Tom Brevoort, Axel Alonso and Ralph Macchio, that was enlisted by Iron Man director Jon Favreau to give advice on the script.

While in Chicago, Favreau landed his first film role alongside Sean Astin as the pudgy tutor D-Bob in the classic sleeper hit Rudy ( 1993 ).

The film's cast would also introduce him to Jon Favreau, playing his manager, a relationship that would return when Favreau cast him as the voice of J. A. R. V. I. S.

* In the Sopranos episode D-Girl, the character Christopher Moltisanti tells Jon Favreau the story of Moretti intimidating Tommy Dorsey, which Favreu cites as the inspiration for the Corleone family's efforts to intimidate studio head Jack Woltz into casting Johnny Fontane in one of his movies ( by killing one of his prized race horses and putting the head in Woltz's bed ) in The Godfather.

Bransford has appeared in many movies and television series, including a FOX network series Jonny Zero and the Jon Favreau / Vince Vaughn comedy, Made in 2001.

Favreau also made a guest appearance in Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show.

In his audio commentary for the DVD release of Iron Man 2, film director Jon Favreau notes that he had Iron Man 2 challenge coins made to distribute to United States Air Force personnel as a gesture of thanks for their cooperation while the production ( and its predecessor, Iron Man ) filmed on location at Edwards Air Force Base.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made a public speech about his death, and Jon Favreau dedicated his Spike TV Scream Award to him upon receiving the award for Best Sci-Fi Movie for Iron Man.

In 1998, Berg made his feature directorial debut with Very Bad Things, a black comedy starring Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern, and Leland Orser.

" Favreau insisted on having Downey as he repeatedly claimed that Downey would be to Iron Man what Johnny Depp is to the Pirates of the Caribbean series, a lead actor that could both elevate the quality of the film and increase the public's interest in it.

Never to turn his back on acting, Favreau still makes regular appearances in film and television.

Favreau also has a TV series called Dinner for Five which airs on the cable TV channel IFC.

Mike ( Jon Favreau ), a recent transplant to Los Angeles, has broken up with his long-time girlfriend of six years and is still having trouble letting go and moving on.

Favreau began his television career as a regular on La Boîte à surprise, a long running children's television show on Radio-Canada.

" Actress Jennifer Beals discussed this in her appearance on the Jon Favreau documentary program Dinner for Five, wherein she stated that much dialogue was improvised in the style of the real-life characters actors were playing, but that many of those characters were not integral to the plot.

In My Name Is Earl, Earl is referred to as Marlboro Man at a fast food restaurant, where he is working to make up for an item on his list, by his boss, played by Jon Favreau, in season 1 episode 12, " O Karma, Where Art Thou?

Additionally, Hong had guest-starred on Friends, playing Hoshi, the former paid assassin and boxing coach for Monica's boyfriend Pete ( played by Jon Favreau ) in the episode " The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion ".

U. S. President Barack Obama and aides Carol Browner, David Axelrod and Jon Favreau ( speechwriter ) | Jon Favreau working on a speech in June 2010.