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David Kellogg is an American director of film, music video and commercials. He directed just two mainstream feature films, over a dozen specialty films directed for Playboy Corporation, dozens of music videos, and hundreds of commercials. Kellogg also teaches directing at the ArtCenter College of Design.

Commercials
Many of the commercials he directed starred high profile HollyWood actors. He directed two commercials for American Express that starred Ellen DeGeneres and Jerry Seinfeld. He directed ads for Budweiser Beer's Act Responsible campaign.

In 1996 he directed three commercials which were nominated for the Director's Guild of America annual award for best commercial.

His 2002 ad for Gatorade, Gatorade figures, animated the real faces of sports heroes Peyton Manning, Derek Jeter, Vince Carter, and Mia Hamm as they engaged in a game of soccer in an arcade game.

Feature films
Kellogg's first feature film was a hip hop musical, then starring rising star Vanilla Ice. The film was described as the 1953 Marlon Brando vehicle, The Wild Ones. Vanilla Ice took Marlon Brandos role as the leader of a motorcycle gang, riding a Suzuki GSX-R750 motorcycle. Motorcycle News celebrated the way the film spotlighted the motorcycle, but noted it was "[A] shame the film was so appallingly awful that director David Kellogg later disowned it." Kellogg was awarded a Razzie for his direction of this film.

In 1998 Kellogg directed Matthew Broderick and Rupert Everett in Inspector Gadget Variety characterized his switch from directing commercials as temporary, and quoted producer Jordan Kerner who explained that he was picked to direct the $98 million film because “He is amazing with color.”

Inspector Gadget was poorly reviewed, nevertheless Disney produced a direct to video sequel, in 2003, and considered a feature film sequel in 2019.