David Choe

Acting

David Choe

Born 1976-04-21 · Los Angeles, California, USA

David Choe is an American artist, musician, and former journalist and podcast host from Los Angeles. Choe's work appears in a wide variety of urban culture and entertainment contexts. He has illustrated and written for magazines including Hustler, Ray Gun and Vice.

Acting credits

LA Originals poster
7.0

Photographer Estevan Oriol and artist Mister Cartoon turned their Chicano roots into gritty art, impacting street culture, hip hop and beyond.

LA Originals

2020

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain poster
7.0

An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly impacted the world around him.

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

2021

Charlie the Ox poster
10.0

Clever payback thriller about a weak-willed safecracker who gets double-crossed by a gang of bank robbers.

Charlie the Ox

2004

Old Boyz poster
NR

An introspective short film with comedian, Bobby Lee and David Choe.

Old Boyz

2024

Vice Is Broke poster
5.3

An investigation into the once high-flying digital news outlet that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023 after boasting a valuation of $5.7 billion in 2017.

Vice Is Broke

2025

David Choe: High Risk poster
8.0

Artist David Choe has led a life of high risk, from hedonistic excesses to being imprisoned at a maximum security facility in a foreign country, and yet has been dramatically rewarded for his exploits. Life didn't change much when he traded a $60k fee in favor of stock in a start-up called The Facebook, but now he is estimated to be worth over $250 million, highlighting a colorful career filled with giant street art installations, porn star affairs and investigative reporting for companies like Vice and CNN. Director and childhood friend Harry Kim guides us through the fantastically surreal life of Choe featuring interviews and appearances by Kevin Smith, Eli Roth, Sasha Grey, Sean Parker, and Shepard Fairey.

David Choe: High Risk

2015

We Are the Strange poster
4.1

Two outcasts fight for survival in a sinister fantasy world. Their lives are constantly in jeopardy after they're caught in the middle of a deadly battle between bizarre monsters on their way to the ice cream shop.

We Are the Strange

2007

Violent Blue poster
3.0

Katarina is a music teacher obsessed with an unfinished symphony. She worries about her brother, Ondrej an introverted inventor whose financiers are reputedly shady and dangerous. Then one day, her ex-husband Pietro shows up in her house and locks her in a cage.

Violent Blue

2011

Dithers: The Cutting Edge of Underground Art From Across the Nation poster
NR

In studio visits with 30 of early 2000's most prolific emerging street and skate underground artists.

Dithers: The Cutting Edge of Underground Art From Across the Nation

2004

Abraham Obama poster
NR

Artist Ron English travels across the country illegally putting up artwork of President Obama and Abraham Lincoln merged together.

Abraham Obama

2009

Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe poster
7.0

Los Angeles artist David Choe's kaleidoscopic work can be playful, confrontational and sexually frank. His personal life is no less complicated, as revealed by close friend Harry Kim, who documented Choe's life and crimes from 2000 to 2007. From the manic highs of commercial success and dinosaur hunting in the Congo to the self-destructive lows of Japanese jail sentences and bouts of self-doubt and depression, what begins as a gleeful portrait of a bad-boy artist slowly becomes a poignant celebration of one man's journey, both artistically and spiritually, toward his own uncertain salvation. Written by Travis Miles

Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe

2008