Lloyd Kaufman is an iconoclastic American film director, producer, and documentarian. With Michael Herz (of Troma), he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment. He is also the co-director, with Herz, of several of Troma's feature films. His early Troma films are credited to Samuel Weil, a pseudonym (actually the name of Kaufman's maternal grandfather) which Kaufman used to skirt Directors Guild of America rules.

Books written by Kaufman include All I Needed To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger (with James Gunn), Make Your Own Damn Movie (with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga), and The Toxic Avenger: The Novel (with Adam Jahnke).

Born Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Jr., he pronounces his name KOFF-man. Though born into a Jewish family, Kaufman was not raised in the faith, and now considers himself an atheist. He does follow some of the tenets of Taoism, however.

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