Jim Field Smith

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Jim Field Smith
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Jim Field Smith (born 20 February 1979) is an English film and television director, writer and producer.

Early career

Smith was a member of the British

Perrier Award for their show Conspiracy in August 2005. The show transferred to the West End, and toured the UK. The following year, the group returned for a third year to the Edinburgh fringe and subsequently the Belfast theatre festival with a show entitled "Prison"
.

He co-wrote and starred in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Deep Trouble with Ben Willbond. As an actor, he appeared in various British TV comedies such as Coupling, Snuffbox and My Life in Film, and numerous commercials both on screen and as a voiceover artist. He also wrote several episodes of the MTV puppet sitcom "Fur TV".[citation needed]

Directing career

Smith got his break in Hollywood through directing short films such as Where Have I Been All Your Life? (2007) and Goodbye to the Normals (2006).[1]

In

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2008, he directed Jay Baruchel and Alice Eve in his first full-length feature, the DreamWorks romantic comedy She's Out of My League, released worldwide by Paramount Pictures
in 2010.

Smith directed Butter, a satirical comedy written by Jason Micallef surrounding an Iowan butter sculpting championship, starring Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, and Ty Burrell that was released in 2011.[2]

He directed the second season of

Golden Globe
nominations for "Best Comedy".

Smith is the director/producer of the 2013

The Wrong Mans, written by James Corden, Mathew Baynton and Tom Basden. The show, a co-production between BBC and Hulu, is about a pair of lowly office workers who become unwittingly embroiled in a deadly criminal conspiracy.[3]

Smith is the co-founder of

Criminal, and the thriller series Hijack for Apple TV starring Idris Elba
, which Smith directed and executive produced.

Smith directed all 8 episodes of Truth Seekers, (co-created by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost), which premiered in October 2020.[5]

Smith directed

Marina Litvinenko and Mark Bonnar and Neil Maskell as Scotland Yard police officers.[6]

Outside of scripted Film and Television work, Smith has directed a number of commercials, including campaigns for Cow & Gate, Heinz, Burger King, Smirnoff and MINI.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Official biography at RSA Films
  2. ^ "Movieline". Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Comedy.co.uk". Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  4. ^ "BBC Two - Stag - Credits". BBC Two - Stag - Credits. BBC. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  5. ^ Sharf, Zack (23 July 2020). "'Truth Seekers' Trailer: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost Hunt the Supernatural in Amazon Series". IndieWire. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  6. ^ "Litvinenko release date, cast and plot for David Tennant ITV drama". Radio Times.

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