Right next to Hollywood, UCLA is known for being the perfect filming location for any University scenes. Most movies pretending to be at Princeton, Harvard, or Yale are actually filmed at UCLA! Here are the top 10 movies and TV shows filmed at UCLA!
Jobs (2013) – movie about Steve Jobs that stars Ashton Kutcher. Even though the college where Jobs dropped out of was supposed to be Reed College, the Jobs movie was filmed at UCLA in front of Royce and Powell library!
Angels & Demons (2009) – Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon solves a Vatican mystery
The House Bunny (2008) – A playboy bunny (Anna Faris) joins a sorority at UCLA
Californication (TV series) – Hank Moody teaches at UCLA!
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) – Elle Woods is back in pink to ban animal testing.
Old School (2003) – A few friends (with Will Ferrell!) start up a fraternity near their college.
Legally Blonde (2001) – Elle Woods goes to Harvard (actually filmed at UCLA!) to become a lawyer
Erin Brockovich (2000) – A mother takes on a water company that pollutes the water supply and kills people.
House M.D. (TV series) – Outdoor scenes usually filmed at UCLA!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series) – also filmed at UCLA
The Nutty Professor (1996) – filmed at UCLA!
Any other good movies that were filmed at UCLA? Leave them in the comments!
By Brian Roizen
Van Wilder.
That’s right! Nice find!
The famous TV shows “Heroes”, in the last season, the character Claire was supposed to be attending some Arlington University, but it was UCLA.
Also How I met your mother, Ted was teaching at some university. IDK what the university it is in the show, but it was filmed infront of Royce Hall.
How I Met Your Mother
Modern Family
Pretty Little Liars
Parks and Recreation
Oh wow, I had no idea Parks and Recreation was filmed at UCLA!
Greek!
Do you remember where or when UCLA appeared in Greek?
season 1, Episode 1. Inverted fountain
Almost every episode was filmed at UCLA. The psych building was Rusty’s first year dorm
scream 2
Were the other scream movies also filmed at UCLA?
Criminal Minds did a few scenes by Jans steps and I think also in the business school
Just saw UCLA pop up; stairs, Royce area, on episode of Criminal Minds with Jason Alexander as bad guy.
National Lampoon: Van Wilder
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
My Name is Khan
my name is khan
modern family
how i met your mother
Better Luck Tomorrow
the social network ‘hacking’ scene was filmed in broad 4th floor
I know it’s not a big movie or TV show, but I’m pretty sure a Jack in the Box commercial was filmed at UCLA as well
The tv show Starman (1986) the episode DER TEST. In this movie various buildings of UCLA are shown.
“The Sure Thing” from 1985, starring John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga.
Lions for Lambs. Gotcha. The Player’s Club. Higher Learning. Herbie Fully Loaded
GOTCHA! was filmed all over the campus. Funny how a chase scene from north campus suddenly is in south campus. Also includes the residential areas, Gayley Terrace.