{{short description|American film director}} {{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Doug Tirola | image = Doug Tirola.jpg | image_caption = Tirola at the Tribeca Film Festival showing of his documentary film ''National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead'', 16 April 2015. | birth_date = 1966 | birth_place = United States | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Film director, producer | years_active = | spouse = }}

'''Douglas Tirola''', also known as '''Doug Tirola''', is an American filmmaker and writer who has worked as a director, executive producer and a producer. He is the owner and president of 4th Row Films, a movie and television production company. Tirola's work includes ''A Reason to Believe'' (1995), ''Hey Bartender'' (2013) and ''National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead'' (2015).

==Awards== ''Hey Bartender'' was nominated in the Special/Documentary category at the 2015 James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/complete-2015-jbf-award-nominees |title=The Complete 2015 JBF Award Nominees |work=Jamesbeard.org |publisher=James Beard Foundation |year=2015 |accessdate=April 10, 2015 }}</ref> ''Actress'' was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2014 Gotham Independent Film Awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gotham.ifp.org/award-nominees-documentary.html |title=Gotham Independent Film Awards: Best Documentary |work=Gotham.ifp.org |publisher=Independent Filmmaker Project |year=2014 |accessdate=April 10, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214194956/http://gotham.ifp.org/award-nominees-documentary.html |archivedate=February 14, 2015 }}</ref> 2 nominations, 0 wins.

==Filmography== Projects Tirola has worked on include:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/238831/Douglas-Tirola/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420215443/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/238831/Douglas-Tirola/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 20, 2015 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |date=2015 |title=Douglas Tirola |accessdate=April 9, 2015 }}</ref> * ''Undercover Blues'' (1993) * ''A Reason to Believe'' (1995) * ''The Lucky Ones'' (2004) * ''All In: The Poker Movie'' (2009) * ''Making the Boys'' (2009) * ''Folks!'' (2010) * ''Fake It So Real'' (2011) * ''Hey Bartender'' (2013) * ''Actress'' (2014) * ''Taking the Heat'' (TV Movie) (2015) * ''The X Effect'' (TV series) (2015) * ''National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead'' (2015) * ''Bloodroot'' (2019) * ''Bernstein's Wall'' (2021)

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0864263}}

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