Alan Smithee is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project. Coined in 1968 and used until it was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when directors, dissatisfied with the final product, proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that they had not been able to exercise creative control over a film. The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the movie or even to acknowledge being the project's director.
Jonathan Scott Frakes is an American actor and director. He is best known for his portrayal of Commander William Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films and series. He has also hosted the anthology series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, voiced David Xanatos in the Disney television series Gargoyles, and narrated the History Channel documentary, Lee and Grant. He is the credited author of the novel The Abductors: Conspiracy, which was ghostwritten by Dean Wesley Smith.
Peter Sasdy is a British film and television director.
Michael Hines is a television and film director based in Scotland. He has directed and produced Chewin' the Fat, a Scottish sketch show, and directed all 62 episodes of Still Game as well as hundreds of hours of television and short films including Instant Credit starring Billy Boyd. He was a committee member for BAFTA Scotland in 2017–18. In 2019 he was awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award from Bafta Scotland for his work on Still Game. He is currently directing his first feature film Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps.
Bryan Spicer is an American film and television director. As a television director some his credits include Castle, 24, House, Heroes, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Hawaii Five-0, and Magnum P.I..
James Michael Muro, Jr. is an American cinematographer and director. He is known primarily for his Steadicam work. In the late 1980s and 1990s, he was James Cameron's Steadicam operator of choice, working on the Cameron-directed films The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, and Titanic. Throughout his career, he has been credited as Jimmy Muro, James Muro, Jim Muro, and J. Michael Muro.
Christian I. Nyby II is an American television director, son of film editor and director Christian Nyby.
Mark Piznarski is an American film director, television director and television producer.
Michael David Fields is an American film and television director.
Three Days is an American television film directed by Michael Switzer and starring Kristin Davis, Reed Diamond and Tim Meadows. It premiered on ABC Family in 2001 as a part of its 25 Days of Christmas programming block and was filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was the last movie produced for Fox Family, as Disney-ABC officially acquired the network in October 2001. The film received a limited Region 2 DVD release, in PAL format. The film had been available on the Disney+ streaming service from launch in 2019 until October 2022.
Sergio Mimica-Gezzan is a Croatian-born American film and television director. He is the son of famous Croatian film director Vatroslav Mimica. He has received three Directors Guild of America awards for his work as an assistant director and is now a regular lead director in episodic television. He has often worked with Steven Spielberg as an assistant director. He directed six episodes of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, two episodes of Heroes, two episodes of Raised by Wolves, three episodes of The Terror, and all eight episodes of The Pillars of the Earth, the television adaptation of Ken Follett's novel of the same name.
Michael Nankin is an American film and television writer, director and producer. He has been nominated for the Humanitas Prize for his writing.
Seth Gordon is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and film editor. He has produced and directed for film and television, including for PBS, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Nations Staff 1% for Development Fund. His films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival. He has directed the films The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007), Four Christmases (2008), Horrible Bosses (2011), Identity Thief (2013), and Baywatch (2017). He has also directed several episodes of television series like The Office, Parks and Recreation, Modern Family, Atypical, and For All Mankind.
Jeffrey Reiner is an American film director, editor, screenwriter, television director, and producer.
Michael Waxman is American director and producer of film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with film director Michael Mann, as well as for directing episodes of: Friday Night Lights, Trauma, The Event and Prime Suspect.
Michael Offer is an Australian film and television director.
John Laing is a New Zealand film and television director and producer.
Nathan Hope is an American cinematographer and director of film and television.
James Quinn is an American film and television director.
Becky Martin is a British television director and producer. Among her directorial credits are episodes of Peep Show, Pete versus Life, Getting On, Veep, Succession and Avenue 5. In 2017, Martin won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Comedy Series for "Inauguration", Veep's season-five finale.
