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Anthony Squire

He also worked as a second unit director in several films, in which he specialised in set pieces including the James Bond films Casino Royale (1967) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) (the stock-car sequence) and Darling Lili (aerial sequences).

Chris Larceny

Chris Larceny directed the films The Game Don’t Differ, M.I Yayo, Money Right and Flo Rida's R.O.O.T.S. Larceny has been the Second Unit Director/Assistant Director for The History Channel series Gangland and Trina: Live and Uncut.

Clem Beauchamp

Clement Hoyt "Clem" Beauchamp (August 26, 1898 – November 14, 1992), also known as Jerry Drew in his 20s and early 30s acting career, first worked as a second unit director in 1935, netting the Academy Award for Best Assistant Director for his work on The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.


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B. Reeves Eason

He used 42 cameras to film the chariot race as a second-unit director on Ben-Hur (1925), the climactic charge in Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and also directed the "Burning of Atlanta" in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Cabir Maira

Cabir has also worked as the Second Unit Director or Assistant Director for Vikram Bhatt's "Shaapit: The Cursed" (2010), ASA Productions & Enterprises.

Dusty Mancinelli

He was the Second Unit Director and Canadian Production Coordinator on the 2009 film "Cooking with Stella" and the stills photographer on Academy Award Nominated Director Deepa Mehta's film Heaven on Earth, and her latest film Midnight's Children, which was released in 2012.

Eric Small

Eric Small is a television and film producer, writer, director and second unit director or assistant director of different movies and the TV Series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003).

George Marshall Ruge

George Marshall Ruge is known for his work as second unit director and stunt coordinator on such film projects as the Pirates of the Caribbean four-film franchise, and as stunt coordinator on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Jerzy Domaradzki

Following his 1974 graduation from the National Film School in Łódź, Domaradzki got his start working as an assistant and second unit director.