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The role of an Assistant Director on a film includes tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, and maintaining order on the set. They also have to take care of the health and safety of the crew. The role of an Assistant to the Director is often confused with Assistant Director but the responsibilities are entirely different. The Assistant to the Director manages all of the Director's in development, pre-production, while on set, through post-production and is often involved in both personal management as well as creative aspects of the production process. Historically, Assistant to Director was a stepping stone to directing work; Alfred Hitchcock was an AD, as was James McTeigue. This transition into film directing is no longer common in feature films. It is more common now for an Assistant to the Director to transition to a production management or producer role than to directing. In America, an Assistant to the Director is not a unionized role, but Assistant Directors of every level require membership to the Director's Guild of America. The DGA strictly monitors and regulates employment frequency and duration, salary, and promotions of Directors and are usually completely different from the requirements of filmmaking and should not be confused.
Surgical assistants are highly skilled, credentialed surgical health professionals who work under the direction of licensed surgeons performing surgical procedures. Surgical assistants are surgical practitioners working exclusively within the surgical care team environment as described by the American College of Surgeons. The surgeon's assistants also known as: assistant surgeon,surgical physician assistant, or registered nurse first assistant perform a specialized role during the surgical procedure. In the US the National Uniform Claims Committee has a taxonomy classification for surgical assistants.
The surgical assistant's role is carried out by surgical practitioners who are: doctors of medicine, nurses specialized in perioperative nursing who have completed registered nurse first assistant programs, surgical physician assistants and surgical assistants which are certified, licensed or registered. Surgical assistants are trained in surgery and undergo rigorous credentialing to practice in that role. The healthcare professionals practicing as surgical assistants varies internationally and each country has legal requirements for the scope of practice for the surgical assistants. Surgical assistance is the practicing specialty of surgical assistants in clinical roles in the United States. In large complicated surgical cases there can be two surgical assistants during the surgical procedure one acting as a first surgical assistant and the other as a second surgical assistant.
Actors: Gerry Davenport (editor), Gerry Davenport (director), Rob Tillitz (actor), Danna Wilberg (writer), Danna Wilberg (producer), Amanda Carrillo (miscellaneous crew), Randy Taylor (actor), Donna Faith Fultineer (miscellaneous crew), G. August K. (actor), Donna Faith Fultineer (actress), Jim Heck (actor), Jay Reddic (actor), Jay Reddic (actor), Scott Slotterbeck (actor), Victoria Goldblatt (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Mae Whitman (actress), Edgar Wright (director), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (actress), Clifton Collins Jr. (actor), Mark Webber (actor), Edgar Wright (writer), Alison Pill (actress), Jason Schwartzman (actor), Michael Cera (actor), Chris Evans (actor), Don McKellar (actor), Thomas Jane (actor), Bill Hader (actor), Richard Morrison (miscellaneous crew), Edgar Wright (producer),
Plot: Scott Pilgrim plays in a band which aspires to success. He dates Knives Chau, a high-school girl five years younger, and he hasn't recovered from being dumped by his former girlfriend, now a success with her own band. When Scott falls for Ramona Flowers, he has trouble breaking up with Knives and tries to romance Ramona. As if juggling two women wasn't enough, Ramona comes with baggage: seven ex-lovers, with each of whom Scott must do battle to the death in order to win Ramona.
Keywords: absurd-humor, absurd-violence, action-hero, actor, after-party, alleyway, altered-version-of-studio-logo, american, amplifier, animated-flashbackActors: François Berléand (actor), Jean Dujardin (actor), Rémi Burah (producer), Dan Herzberg (actor), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (actor), Harmel Sbraire (miscellaneous crew), Rocco Siffredi (actor), Anita Blond (actress), Nicky Marbot (actor), Jocelyn Quivrin (actor), Dominique Bettenfeld (actor), Antoine Basler (actor), Jan Kounen (director), Jan Kounen (writer), Patrick Mille (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: David Randolph (miscellaneous crew), Clancy Brown (actor), Steve Alterman (miscellaneous crew), Greg Finley (miscellaneous crew), Boone Narr (miscellaneous crew), Jesse Long (miscellaneous crew), Mary Lambert (director), Wilbur Fitzgerald (actor), Edward Furlong (actor), Robert Easton (actor), Anthony Edwards (actor), Lucas Moore (miscellaneous crew), Holly Dorff (miscellaneous crew), Marlene Stewart (costume designer), Gary Schwartz (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: The "sematary" is up to its old zombie-raising tricks again. This time, the protagonists are Jeff Matthews, whose mother died in a Hollywood stage accident, and Drew Gilbert, a boy coping with an abusive stepfather.
Keywords: 1990s, abusive-stepfather, animal, attack, attic, axe, back-from-the-dead, burial, burial-ground, cemeteryActors: George Wendt (actor), Sam Wanamaker (actor), Tom Sizemore (actor), Martin Scorsese (actor), Allan Rich (actor), Barry Primus (actor), Gailard Sartain (actor), Robin Gammell (actor), Adam Baldwin (actor), Chris Cooper (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Stuart Margolin (actor), Stephen Root (actor), Illeana Douglas (actress), Annette Bening (actress),
Plot: David Merrill ('Robert De Niro' (qv)), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood director, returns from filming abroad in France to find that his loyalty has been called into question by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and he is unable to work until cleared. Before being called, his highest priority had been his work to the extent of leaving his wife ('Annette Bening' (qv)) and son ('Luke Edwards (I)' (qv)) alone for months at a time. He initially refuses to implicate others or himself in a private meeting with Roy Cohn and a studio lawyer. This decision initially to stick to his principles first leaves him unable to work in his profession, even with films and producers he never would have worked with before. Harassment by the FBI leaves him unable to work on Broadway, with advertising agencies, or even in a small film repair shop. Finally, having fallen so far, and tempted with a new offer to direct a film from his old studio (if he testifies), he agrees to go before the Committee, initially planning to name his friends. But when confronted with the cruel and tyrannical behavior of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, he realizes that there is a higher priority in his life there is standing up for what is right. And in doing so, he inspires friends and family to do the same.
Keywords: 1950s, blacklist, blacklisting, box-office-flop, film-director, hearings, house-unamerican-activities-committee, lingerie-slip, mccarthy-hearings, mccarthyismActors: Joseph Sargent (director), Mickey Rooney (actor), Billy Goldenberg (composer), Richard Bright (actor), William Windom (actor), Robert Wagner (actor), Elizabeth Taylor (actress), Chad Lowe (actor), Lia Sargent (actress), Dick O'Neill (actor), Robert Wagner (producer), Ken Olin (actor), James Coco (actor), Terrence Evans (actor), Edward Winter (actor),
Plot: Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.
Keywords: actress, animal-in-title, based-on-novel, claim-in-title, mother-son-relationship, teenage-boyActors: Clu Gulager (actor), John Rubinstein (composer), Santos Morales (actor), Michael A. Hoey (producer), Richard Venture (actor), Talia Balsam (actress), Keith Coogan (actor), William Blinn (producer), William Blinn (writer), Jerry Thorpe (producer), Jerry Thorpe (director), Sean Roche (actor), Stephanie Spangler (miscellaneous crew), Byron Chudnow (editor), Karen Rasch (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Adventure, Drama,Actors: Len Hendry (actor), E. Mason Hopper (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Ken Christy (actor), Joe Gray (actor), William Holden (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Cecil B. DeMille (actor), Eddie Dew (actor), Fred Clark (actor), Larry J. Blake (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Buster Keaton (actor),
Plot: The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.
Keywords: abbreviation-in-title, actor, actress, aging, animal-burial, ashtray, assistant-director, astrology, auto-repossession, automobileActors: Harry C. Bradley (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Ken Christy (actor), John Holland (actor), Leonard Carey (actor), Albert Dekker (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Eddie Foy Jr. (actor), Charlie Hall (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Bud Jamison (actor),
Plot: A "Perfect Movie Fan",Joe Ruddy, is brought to Hollywood as a publicity stunt, and is put in charge of a production company as a gag, but everybody isn't in on the gag, and Joe imports a notorious gangster, "Buggsy" Malone, to play "himself" in a film based on his life. "Buggsy" has gone straight, more or less, but retains some of his old habits to the extent of assuming control of the film, and the whole studio. His sister, Molly, also comes along and she falls in love with Joe. The head of the studio, R. B. Harris, quickly becomes disenchanted with the idea of publicity stunts.
Keywords: 1940s, actor, actress, assistant-director, b-movie, bank-teller, based-on-play, boarding-house, brother-sister-relationship, butlerActors: Harry C. Bradley (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Ken Christy (actor), John Holland (actor), Leonard Carey (actor), Albert Dekker (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Eddie Foy Jr. (actor), Charlie Hall (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Bud Jamison (actor),
Plot: A "Perfect Movie Fan",Joe Ruddy, is brought to Hollywood as a publicity stunt, and is put in charge of a production company as a gag, but everybody isn't in on the gag, and Joe imports a notorious gangster, "Buggsy" Malone, to play "himself" in a film based on his life. "Buggsy" has gone straight, more or less, but retains some of his old habits to the extent of assuming control of the film, and the whole studio. His sister, Molly, also comes along and she falls in love with Joe. The head of the studio, R. B. Harris, quickly becomes disenchanted with the idea of publicity stunts.
Keywords: 1940s, actor, actress, assistant-director, b-movie, bank-teller, based-on-play, boarding-house, brother-sister-relationship, butler