Oliver Townsend

1st Assistant Director in Features & TV Drama

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2nd Assistant Director in Features & TV Drama
3rd AD

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I started doing Commercials when I worked in house at Partizan in 2010. I spent 3 years running on Commercials at various APA Production Companies then after a short break for travelling, came back and started working on TV and Films and have been doing that solidly for the last 7 years.

Selected credits

Features & TV Drama

Prod Co	Title	Type	Director	Producer	1st AD	Role
BBC	Count Magnus	TV	Mark Gatiss	Isobel Nixon	James Emmott	2ND AD
Bbc	Casualty		Michael Lacey	David Llewlyn Jones	Ollie Townsend	1st AD
BBC	The Capture Season 2		James Kent / Phillipa Langdale	Kristian Dench	Oliver Townsend	1st AD
Fully Focused	PRU		Tayo Odesanya	Nick Bedi		1st AD 2nd Unit
Amazon	The Rig 2nd Unit		John Stirckland	Suzanne Reid		1st AD 2nd Unit
Rough Cut	Stath Lets Flats		Tom Kingsley	Seb Barwell		1st AD (Dailies)
TBOS	The Bay Of Silence		Paula van der Oest	Jason Newark		1st AD (Dailies)
Metfilms Productions	Whatnot		Jerry Rothwell	Stewart Le Marchel	George Taylor	2nd AD
Left Bank	Stirke Back		Bill Eagles	Nuala O'Leary	James Emmott / Simon Noone /Tim Bain	Floor 2nd AD
ITV	A Spy Among Friends		Nick Murphy	Chrissy Skins	James Emmott	Crowd 2nd AD
BBC	The Capture		Ben Chanan	Derek Wax	Kristian Dench	Crowd 2nd AD
Amazon	The Rig		John Strickland	Suzanne Reid	Tom Alibone	Crowd 2nd AD
The Capture	The Capture		Ben Chanan	Derek Wax	Kristian Dench	2nd Unit 2nd AD
NBC	Snow Globe		Sam Esmail	John Lenic	Cameron Lawther	2nd AD
Rough Cut	Stath Lets Flats		Tom Kingsley	Seb Barwell	Laurie Mahon	3rd AD
Scott Free	All The Money In The World		Ridley Scott	Kevin Walsh	Raymond Kirk	3rd AD
BBC	Press		Tom Vaughn	Paul Gilbert	Kristian Dench	3rd AD
Me+You	SHE		Dominic Savage	John Pocock	Jessica Laws	3rd AD
Left Bank	Outlander 4 2nd Unit			David Brown	Nick Heckstall Smith / Patrick Conroy	3rd AD
Outside Film Company	Amulet		Romola Garai	Matt Wilkinson	Alice Caronna	3rd AD

Countries Worked in

Australia

Croatia

Czech Republic

Italy

Slovenia

Education

East Barnet School
Staffordshire University

Production Companies Worked with

Amazon UK

Partizan

Rough Cut

Scott Free

Starz

Tiger Aspect

Universal

1st ADs Worked with as a 2nd AD

James Emmott

Mark Ash

Simon Noone

Tim Bain

Tom Alibone

1st ADs Worked with as a Runner

Danny McGrath

Jay Arthur

Kristian Dench

Nick Heckstall Smith

Patrick Conroy

Technical Skills

Movie Magic

Additional Skills

Valid driving license
Car owner
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