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Technical advisor

Technical advisors who have become actors include George Kennedy (an Army advisor to the Sgt. Bilko television show) and John Dierkes (an accountant working for the U.S. Treasury, who provided technical assistance to the makers of To the Ends of the Earth).


John Dierkes

Instead, Dierkes went to work for the U.S. Treasury Department which coincidentally sent him to Hollywood to function as technical advisor for the film To the Ends of the Earth (1948).

Raymond Harvey

The two of them struck up a friendship with Harvey also acting as technical advisor on Fuller's Verboten! (1958) and accompanied Fuller and his wife to Europe at the end of the 1950s to scout locations for a projected filming of The Big Red One for Warner Bros. that did not eventuate.


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Amanda Simpson

Upon her appointment to the position of Senior Technical Advisor in the Bureau of Industry and Security in 2010, she became the first openly transgender woman political appointee of any Presidential administration.

Andy Hillenburg

Hillenburg also was a technical advisor and provided equipment for the filming of the Bollywood film Ta Ra Rum Pum, which was filmed at Rockingham and also at the ARCA race at the Wisconsin State Fair Park.

Barry Asher

He was the bowling technical advisor for the film The Big Lebowski (1998).

Catherine Colonna

In 1988 she became a technical advisor in Minister of Public Works Maurice Faure's cabinet, under the presidency of François Mitterrand.

Dave Kershaw

In 2001, he was invited to teach in Amritsar, India, by the Punjab Karate Association, and became their Chief Technical Advisor.

David Nucifora

In 2005 he joined the Auckland Blues team as a technical advisor and high performance manager, with the positions previously held by current All Blacks coach Graham Henry.

Dennis Chalker

While serving as Command Master Chief of BUD/S, Chalker was hired as a technical advisor for The Rock, a 1996 Jerry Bruckheimer film.

Dinah Derycke

In 1991 she became a technical advisor to Michel Delebarre, then Minister of State for Planning and Municipalities, and the following year she was appointed external counsel to the Court of Audit (Cour des comptes).

Douglas Clayton

Clayton is a director of Kingdom Breweries (Cambodia), trustee of the Center for Khmer Studies, and served as Technical Advisor to the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia.

Eduardo Macía

Macía spent two decades at Valencia CF as player, technical advisor, and as the personal assistant to the club's current president, Juan Soler.

Elizabeth B. Jenkins

In May 2010, Elizabeth served as technical advisor and guide to the DISCOVERY CHANNEL's Les Stroud Beyond Survival into the Andean mountains to join the Q'ero Indians on their yearly pilgrimage to the holy site of Qollorit'i.

Farouk Jiwa

Farouk Jiwa is a social entrepreneur, Senior Ashoka Fellow, and Senior Technical Advisor, Economic Development, at CARE USA, applying market-based approaches to poverty reduction in the developing world.

FC Talanta

In addition, UNICEF has allocated a full-time technical advisor to the project, Jonathan Coles, a professional football coach and administrator.

Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center

Mawn, thereafter stationed in Germany, was the technical advisor for Presley's film G.I. Blues.

Fort Smith National Cemetery

Major John J. Mawn (1915-2007), a decorated World War II officer, who was the information officer during Elvis Presley's military tour in Germany and the technical advisor on the film G.I. Blues.

Freddie Joe Farnsworth

Upon leaving the Marine Corps, Farnsworth returned to Casper, Wyoming and was working as a truck driver and in sales for Butane Power and Equipment Co. when in April 1996 he began work as a technical advisor on Starship Troopers and began his association with Dale Dye's company Warriors Inc.

Gene Spafford

Among notable software designed and/or supervised by Spafford include the freeware Tripwire tool coded by his student Gene Kim (Spafford was later the chief external technical advisor to the Tripwire company during their first few years), and the freeware COPS tool coded by his student Dan Farmer.

Jigger Statz

Jigger Statz played himself in the 1929 Paramount film, Fast Company, and in 1952 served as a technical advisor for The Winning Team, a fictionalized Warner Bros. biography of Grover Cleveland Alexander which starred Ronald Reagan.

Juan Ramón López Caro

In January 2012, he became in technical advisor of Saudi Arabia national football team and after the sacking of Frank Rijkaard, he became the manager of the team.

Lillian Kinkella Keil

She served as a technical advisor for the 1953 film Flight Nurse, starring Joan Leslie and Forrest Tucker, which was based upon her experiences.

Lisa Zwerling

Zwerling began her television career as a technical advisor and writer for the medical drama Presidio Med.

Meng Weng Wong

MAAWG where he was appointed a Senior Technical Advisor.

Michael Gould

Mick Gould, film industry technical advisor in martial arts, close combat and firearms

Mike Sigel

He was also the technical advisor, instructor, and sports choreographer for the shots made by Paul Newman and Tom Cruise in the Academy Award-winning film The Color of Money.

Ojala

Arvo Ojala (21 February 21 1920 to 1 July 2005) was a Finnish Hollywood technical advisor

Operation Pacific

The technical advisor for this film was Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, the actual Commander, Submarine Forces, Pacific (COMSUBPAC) during World War II.

P. M. Pasinetti

For Joseph L. Mankiewicz's critically acclaimed Julius CesarPasinetti served as a technical advisor.

Red Hills Horse Trials

The cross-country course was designed by Captain Mark Phillips, Chef d'Equipe and Technical Advisor for the United States Equestrian Team and a former member of the Great Britain Olympic team.

Ronald B. Linsky

Linsky then moved to the Caribbean to become the UN’s Chief Technical Advisor and, later, CEO of the Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA) in Trinidad and Tobago.

Sig Hansen

Since 2006, Hansen has been featured in all seasons of the documentary television series Deadliest Catch, for which he also serves as technical advisor for the production.

Tony Ferrara

In 1984, Ferrara served as technical advisor for the Robert Redford film The Natural and appeared in the film as third base coach.

Vladislav Bogićević

In 2012, he joined Nyack College (NCAA Division II) Women's soccer staff as an assistant/technical advisor of Head Coach Samuel Oduro.