Doug Claybourne is probably best known to the residents of Valley Glen as a producer and co-founder of the Valley Glen Neighborhood Association (1995). He entered the film business with a background in advertising and art direction. Claybourne studied fine arts/design at Tulsa Junior College in Oklahoma. He then obtained a BS degree from the University of Tulsa in Advertising and Commercial Design. Two years of post graduate work followed at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles.

Claybourne spent six months as an assistant art director on The City of San Francisco Magazine, working with the new owner, Francis Coppola. Early in 1976, during his first semester of film school after leaving the magazine, Claybourne began working as a production assistant on Apocalypse Now. He worked in various capacities as first assistant director, post production coordinator, and special assistant to the producers until the film's release in 1979.

Since then, Claybourne's production credits (either as producer, co-producer, or executive producer) have included many feature films: The Escape Artist, The Black Stallion Returns, Rumble Fish, The Mask of Zorro, Jack, and more.

Doug Claybourne founded the Entertainment Coalition of 2000/ECO 2000 "to conceive positive solutions toward returning production to the US." He has been a member of the Los Angeles Valley College Patron's Association and is currently on the Arts Council Board of Directors.

Claybourne lives in Valley Glen and continues to pursue his passion for poetry, having written over 17 books of poetry. For more information about Doug, please visit www.dougclaybourne.com.