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James Excell

  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Additional Crew
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James Excell is known for Morbius (2022), Black Widow (2021) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018).
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    Known for

    Jared Leto in Morbius (2022)
    Morbius
    5.1
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director
    • 2022
    Rachel Weisz, Scarlett Johansson, Ray Winstone, David Harbour, O-T Fagbenle, Olga Kurylenko, and Florence Pugh in Black Widow (2021)
    Black Widow
    6.6
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director(dailies)
    • 2021
    Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
    Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
    6.1
    • Additional Crew(second unit)
    • 2018
    James Earl Jones, Forest Whitaker, Wen Jiang, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Daniel Naprous, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Spencer Wilding, and Riz Ahmed in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
    7.8
    • Additional Crew(additional photography)
    • 2016

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    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • Better Man (2024)
      Better Man
      6.5
      • third assistant director
      • 2024
    • Olivia Cooke and Emma D'Arcy in House of the Dragon (2022)
      House of the Dragon
      8.3
      TV Series
      • floor 2nd assistant director: fire unit
      • third assistant director
      • 2022–2024
    • Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn in A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
      A Quiet Place: Day One
      6.3
      • floor second assistant director: second unit
      • 2024
    • The First Omen (2024)
      The First Omen
      6.5
      • third assistant director
      • 2024
    • Charlize Theron, Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, Jordana Brewster, Sung Kang, Brie Larson, Ludacris, Jason Momoa, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, John Cena, Alan Ritchson, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Daniela Melchior in Fast X (2023)
      Fast X
      5.7
      • third assistant director: main unit
      • 2023
    • David Duchovny, Leslie Mann, Fred Armisen, Pedro Pascal, Keegan-Michael Key, Karen Gillan, Iris Apatow, Ben Ashenden, Alexander Owen, and Guz Khan in The Bubble (2022)
      The Bubble
      4.7
      • third assistant director
      • 2022
    • Jared Leto in Morbius (2022)
      Morbius
      5.1
      • third assistant director
      • 2022
    • Uma Thurman, Elyes Gabel, Gerran Howell, Kunal Nayyar, Georgina Campbell, Tom Rhys Harries, and Elizabeth Henstridge in Suspicion (2022)
      Suspicion
      6.2
      TV Series
      • third assistant director
      • 2022
    • Stephen Graham and Daniel Mays in Code 404 (2020)
      Code 404
      6.3
      TV Series
      • third assistant director
      • 2021
    • Rachel Weisz, Scarlett Johansson, Ray Winstone, David Harbour, O-T Fagbenle, Olga Kurylenko, and Florence Pugh in Black Widow (2021)
      Black Widow
      6.6
      • crowd third assistant director: dailies
      • 2021
    • Katherine Langford in Cursed (2020)
      Cursed
      6.0
      TV Series
      • third assistant director: additional photography
      • 2020
    • Matthew Macfadyen and Michael Sheen in Quiz (2020)
      Quiz
      7.3
      TV Mini Series
      • third assistant director
      • 2020
    • A Christmas Carol (2019)
      A Christmas Carol
      7.3
      TV Mini Series
      • crowd third assistant director: dailies
      • 2019
    • William Fichtner, Sylvia Hoeks, and Milo Gibson in All the Devil's Men (2018)
      All the Devil's Men
      5.1
      • floor runner: stand-in
      • 2018
    • Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Dan Fogler, William Nadylam, Alison Sudol, Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Claudia Kim, Zoë Kravitz, Ezra Miller, and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
      Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
      6.5
      • floor pa: second unit
      • 2018

    Additional Crew

    • Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Joanne Froggatt, Matthew Goode, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Nicol, Penelope Wilton, Allen Leech, Robert James-Collier, Michelle Dockery, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sophie McShera, Tuppence Middleton, Laura Carmichael, and Michael Fox in Downton Abbey (2019)
      Downton Abbey
      7.4
      • cover 3rd assistant director/key floor runner
      • 2019
    • The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019)
      The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
      8.4
      TV Series
      • additional set runner: dailies
      • 2019
    • Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
      Spider-Man: Far from Home
      7.4
      • third assistant director: Crowd (uncredited)
      • 2019
    • Maeve Dermody and Oliver Farnworth in Love Type D (2019)
      Love Type D
      5.0
      • runner
      • 2019
    • Idris Elba in Turn Up Charlie (2019)
      Turn Up Charlie
      7.0
      TV Series
      • production assistant
      • 2019
    • William Fichtner, Sylvia Hoeks, and Milo Gibson in All the Devil's Men (2018)
      All the Devil's Men
      5.1
      • floor runner
      • 2018
    • Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Shannon, and Florence Pugh in The Little Drummer Girl (2018)
      The Little Drummer Girl
      7.4
      TV Mini Series
      • additional floor runner (uncredited)
      • 2018
    • Iain De Caestecker, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbæk, John Magaro, Jacob Anderson, Jovan Adepo, and Mathilde Ollivier in Overlord (2018)
      Overlord
      6.6
      • additional set pa
      • 2018
    • Charlotte Rampling, Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, and Oliver Zetterström in The Little Stranger (2018)
      The Little Stranger
      5.5
      • crowd production assistant (uncredited)
      • 2018
    • Lesley Manville, Samantha Morton, Jessica Brown Findlay, and Eloise Smyth in Harlots (2017)
      Harlots
      7.7
      TV Series
      • crowd production assistant: dailies (uncredited)
      • 2018
    • Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
      Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
      6.1
      • set production assistant: second unit
      • 2018
    • Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Taylor Kitsch, Shiva Negar, Aso Sherabayani, and Dylan O'Brien in American Assassin (2017)
      American Assassin
      6.2
      • crowd pa: dailies
      • 2017
    • Judi Dench and Ali Fazal in Victoria & Abdul (2017)
      Victoria & Abdul
      6.8
      • set production assistant: dailies
      • 2017
    • Annette Bening and Jamie Bell in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
      Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
      6.7
      • additional set production assistant
      • 2017
    • Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour (2017)
      Darkest Hour
      7.4
      • set pa
      • stand-in
      • 2017

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