Ipson was born in
Salt Lake City,
Utah, United States, the son of Robert K Ipson, an investment banker, entrepreneur, and Bonneville racetrack owner, and Linda Hayz, a model. He has a sister Jaime Ipson Burke, and had two half-brothers Cory K Ipson and Robert Scott Ipson by his father with Letha Rasmussen. A Norse Mythology enthusiast, he named his two children
Odin and
Thor after Norse gods as well as his film production company
Asgaard Entertainment. Ipson dropped out of
Highland High School at the age of 16 to attend the
University of Utah on a Presidential Scholarship. He started as a business major, but then switched to biology and chemistry to become premed. After finishing medical school, he then completed a surgical internship at the University of Heidelberg in Germany before starting his surgical residency at the
New England Medical Center in Boston. It is there that he met his future wife (also a licensed physician). Ipson left his residency to attend USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program. He graduated having directed two thesis projects,
Peeping Tom and
The First Vampire, and produced the thesis project
Playback.
Peeping Tom took grand prize at 16 short film festivals.
The First Vampire was not shown on festival circuits in hopes of releasing it as a DVD bonus feature someday. The short version won a production grant in 2001 for its use of science from the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Ipson shoots fashion photography for magazine publications. He is also a licensed physician in the state of California and lives in Beverly Hills. ==Filmography==