Jim Field Smith
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Jim Field Smith (born 20 February 1979[1]) is a British film director, comedy writer, and actor.
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[edit] Background
Field Smith attended Wellington College, Berkshire, England from 1992 to 1997, and then went on to the University of Birmingham, from where he graduated in 2001. He worked in TV production for a couple of years before he and collaborator George Kay established their own production company, Idiotlamp Productions Ltd, based in London, UK.
[edit] Career
In October 2007, trade journal Variety announced that he will be directing the movie She's Out Of My League, a romantic comedy for US studio Dreamworks, starring Canadian actor Jay Baruchel, which started shooting March 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA.[2]
His previous credits as a film director include the shorts Where Have I Been All Your Life? (2007) and Goodbye to the Normals (2006). He has directed a number of award-winning advertising campaigns, for clients such as Burger King, Smirnoff, AOL, MINI and Virgin.
As a writer and performer, he has various credits on TV and radio. Amongst other things, he co-writes and stars in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Deep Trouble with Ben Willbond. He has appeared in various recent British TV comedies, and numerous commercials both on screen and as a voiceover artist. He also often crops up in the credits of comedy and entertainment shows as "writer" or "script editor".
He is a member of the popular British sketch comedy group Dutch Elm Conservatoire, who were nominated for the 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 and the other three members of the group continue to develop projects for TV and radio. For 2008 Jim can be seen with the rest of the group in the TV series of Comedy Cuts on ITV2, and he is also working on a television sketch show with Dutch Elm Conservatoire for ITV.
[edit] Representation
Jim is represented in the UK by United Agents (London), and in the USA he is represented by Endeavor Talent Agency (LA) and managed by Underground Films (LA). He is represented as a commercials director in the UK by Weilands (London) and in the USA by CFM International (New York)
[edit] References
- ^ Jim Field Smith at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "Jim Field Smith to direct 'League'", Variety, 25 Octocber 2007
