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James Matthews Read

  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Additional Crew
  • Location Management
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James Matthews Read is known for My Oxford Year (2025), Munich: The Edge of War (2021) and Avengers: Doomsday (2026).
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    • Known for

    Corey Mylchreest and Sofia Carson in My Oxford Year (2025)
    My Oxford Year
    5.9
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director
    • 2025
    Jeremy Irons, George MacKay, and Jannis Niewöhner in Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
    Munich: The Edge of War
    6.8
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director
    • 2021
    Robert Downey Jr. in Avengers: Doomsday (2026)
    Avengers: Doomsday
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director
    • 2026
    Tomb Raider
    TV Series
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director

    Credits

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    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • Avengers: Doomsday
      • stunt third assistant director 2nd unit
      • Post-production
      • 2026
    • Tomb Raider
      • crowd third assistant director
      • Filming
      • TV Series
    • The Return of Stanley Atwell
      • crowd third assistant director
      • Post-production
    • Going Under
      • third assistant director
      • Post-production
    • Mark Gatiss and Polly Walker in Bookish (2025)
      Bookish
      6.9
      TV Series
      • crowd third assistant director: UK (as James Matthews)
      • 2026
    • Trying (2020)
      Trying
      8.0
      TV Series
      • crowd third assistant director
      • 2026
    • Riz Ahmed in Bait (2026)
      Bait
      6.8
      TV Series
      • crowd third assistant director
      • 2026
    • Corey Mylchreest and Sofia Carson in My Oxford Year (2025)
      My Oxford Year
      5.9
      • crowd third assistant director
      • 2025
    • Acha Septriasa in Daemon Mind (2024)
      Daemon Mind
      3.5
      • second assistant director
      • 2024
    • Elizabeth Debicki in The Crown (2016)
      The Crown
      8.6
      TV Series
      • crowd third assistant director
      • 2022–2023
    • Gary Oldman in Slow Horses (2022)
      Slow Horses
      8.3
      TV Series
      • additional third assistant director
      • 2023
    • Ted Lasso (2020)
      Ted Lasso
      8.7
      TV Series
      • crowd third assistant director
      • 2023
    • Georgie Mabel Clarke, Seann Walsh, Scott Haran, and Andi Jashy in The Bystanders (2022)
      The Bystanders
      5.1
      • first assistant director
      • 2022
    • Jeremy Irons, George MacKay, and Jannis Niewöhner in Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
      Munich: The Edge of War
      6.8
      • crowd production assistant
      • 2021
    • Neil Maskell in Bull (2021)
      Bull
      6.5
      • third assistant director
      • 2021
    • Cognition (2020)
      Cognition
      6.3
      Short
      • third assistant director
      • 2020
    • Laurence Spellman in Henry VIII: Man, Monarch, Monster (2020)
      Henry VIII: Man, Monarch, Monster
      7.8
      TV Series
      • third assistant director
      • 2020
    • George MacKay and Alexandra Roach in 2nd Date Sex (2019)
      2nd Date Sex
      5.5
      • third assistant director
      • 2019
    • As I Am (2019)
      As I Am
      6.1
      • third assistant director
      • 2019

    Additional Crew

    • Gary Oldman, Jessica Alba, and Tommy Flanagan in Killers Anonymous (2019)
      Killers Anonymous
      4.0
      • floor runner
      • 2019
    • Daisy Haggard in Back to Life (2019)
      Back to Life
      7.6
      TV Series
      • floor runner
      • 2019
    • Emma Rigby and Diarmaid Murtagh in The Protector (2019)
      The Protector
      5.5
      • floor runner
      • 2019
    • Emilia Fox, Rafe Spall, Ross McCormack, Matthew Stagg, Sophie Simnett, and William Stagg in Acres and Acres (2016)
      Acres and Acres
      6.5
      • floor runner
      • 2016

    Location Management

    • Simon Callow, Alun Armstrong, Phil Davis, Bernard Hill, Sue Johnston, Virginia McKenna, and Una Stubbs in Golden Years (2016)
      Golden Years
      6.2
      • locations runner
      • 2016

    Personal details

    • Alternative names
      • James Matthews

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