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Michael Searle(II)

  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Additional Crew
  • Camera and Electrical Department
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Michael Searle is known for Ready Player One (2018), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and American Assassin (2017).
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    Known for

    Steven Spielberg, Ben Mendelsohn, George Michael, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Perdita Weeks, Kamara Benjamin Barnett, Mandy June Turpin, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Stephen Mitchell, Neet Mohan, Win Morisaki, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Kae Alexander, Sarah Sharman, Robert Gilbert, Raed Abbas, Letitia Wright, Tye Sheridan, Asan N'Jie, Hannah John-Kamen, Cara Theobold, Olivia Cooke, Alphonso Austin, Amy Clare Beales, Jane Leaney, Kathryn Wilder, and Philip Zhao in Ready Player One (2018)
    Ready Player One
    7.4
    • Additional Crew
    • 2018
    Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany, Thandiwe Newton, Donald Glover, Alden Ehrenreich, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emilia Clarke, Charlotte Louise, and Joonas Suotamo in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
    Solo: A Star Wars Story
    6.9
    • Additional Crew
    • 2018
    Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Taylor Kitsch, Shiva Negar, Aso Sherabayani, and Dylan O'Brien in American Assassin (2017)
    American Assassin
    6.2
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director(second unit)
    • 2017
    Iain De Caestecker, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbæk, John Magaro, Jacob Anderson, Jovan Adepo, and Mathilde Ollivier in Overlord (2018)
    Overlord
    6.6
    • Additional Crew
    • 2018

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    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • The Assassin
      • key second assistant director, second assistant director
      • Post-production
      • TV Series
    • Above the Below
      • second assistant director: additional photography
      • Completed
    • Red Eye (2024)
      Red Eye
      7.0
      TV Series
      • second assistant director
      • 2024
    • Jessica Gunning and Richard Gadd in Baby Reindeer (2024)
      Baby Reindeer
      7.7
      TV Mini Series
      • second assistant director
      • key second assistant director
      • 2024
    • Starve Acre (2023)
      Starve Acre
      5.4
      • key second assistant director
      • 2023
    • Lauren Grace and Anya McKenna-Bruce in Zero (2022)
      Zero
      4.6
      • third assistant director
      • 2022
    • Kenneth Branagh in This England (2022)
      This England
      6.7
      TV Mini Series
      • crowd 2nd assistant director
      • 2022
    • Jarreau Benjamin in Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022)
      Jeepers Creepers: Reborn
      2.6
      • third assistant director: UK
      • 2022
    • Livia De Paolis, Louis Partridge, and Emily Carey in The Lost Girls (2022)
      The Lost Girls
      2.8
      • third assistant director dailies
      • 2022
    • Darren Boyd, Stephen Merchant, Clare Perkins, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jessica Gunning, and Rhianne Barreto in The Outlaws (2021)
      The Outlaws
      7.7
      TV Series
      • second assistant director: additional photography
      • 2022
    • Keeley Hawes in The Midwich Cuckoos (2022)
      The Midwich Cuckoos
      6.7
      TV Series
      • second second assistant director
      • 2022
    • Elliot Edusah, Jordan Peters, and Reda Elazouar in Pirates (2021)
      Pirates
      5.6
      • third assistant director
      • 2021
    • Catalina Sandino Moreno and Iwan Rheon in Barbarians (2021)
      Barbarians
      4.7
      • third assistant director
      • 2021
    • Ruth Wilson in True Things (2021)
      True Things
      5.9
      • third assistant director
      • 2021
    • Susan Sarandon, Kate Beckinsale, Stanley Tucci, Bobby Cannavale, Laverne Cox, and Jai Courtney in Jolt (2021)
      Jolt
      5.6
      • additional third assistant director
      • 2021
    • O-T Fagbenle in Maxxx (2020)
      Maxxx
      5.9
      TV Series
      • 3rd assistant director
      • third assistant director
      • 2020
    • The First Team (2020)
      The First Team
      6.1
      TV Series
      • third assistant director: crowd
      • 2020

    Additional Crew

    • Maeve Dermody and Oliver Farnworth in Love Type D (2019)
      Love Type D
      5.0
      • floor runner
      • 2019
    • Ed Skrein, Hermione Corfield, and Abdullah Ali in Born a King (2019)
      Born a King
      7.3
      • floor runner
      • 2019
    • David Harbour in Hellboy (2019)
      Hellboy
      5.3
      • floor runner
      • floor runner: UK
      • 2019
    • Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Ben Whishaw, Emily Blunt, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, and Joel Dawson in Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
      Mary Poppins Returns
      6.7
      • additional set production assistant
      • 2018
    • Shawn Michaels, Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin, and Rebecca Quin in The Marine 6: Close Quarters (2018)
      The Marine 6: Close Quarters
      4.9
      • additional floor runner
      • 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 production assistant
      • 2018
    • Peterloo (2018)
      Peterloo
      6.5
      • crowd production assistant
      • 2018
    • Isabel Clifton in Hetty Feather (2015)
      Hetty Feather
      7.0
      TV Series
      • floor runner
      • 2018
    • Woody Harrelson, Paul Bettany, Thandiwe Newton, Donald Glover, Alden Ehrenreich, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emilia Clarke, Charlotte Louise, and Joonas Suotamo in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
      Solo: A Star Wars Story
      6.9
      • additional set production assistant
      • 2018
    • Anna Friel in Marcella (2016)
      Marcella
      7.3
      TV Series
      • additional floor runner
      • 2018
    • Steven Spielberg, Ben Mendelsohn, George Michael, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Perdita Weeks, Kamara Benjamin Barnett, Mandy June Turpin, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Stephen Mitchell, Neet Mohan, Win Morisaki, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Kae Alexander, Sarah Sharman, Robert Gilbert, Raed Abbas, Letitia Wright, Tye Sheridan, Asan N'Jie, Hannah John-Kamen, Cara Theobold, Olivia Cooke, Alphonso Austin, Amy Clare Beales, Jane Leaney, Kathryn Wilder, and Philip Zhao in Ready Player One (2018)
      Ready Player One
      7.4
      • set production assistant
      • 2018
    • Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn in Hard Sun (2018)
      Hard Sun
      6.6
      TV Mini Series
      • floor runner
      • 2018
    • Craig Fairbrass and Terry Stone in Rise of the Footsoldier 3 (2017)
      Rise of the Footsoldier 3
      5.8
      • floor runner
      • 2017
    • Richard Dormer in Rellik (2017)
      Rellik
      6.4
      TV Mini Series
      • floor runner
      • 2017

    Camera and Electrical Department

    • Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands (2016)
      Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
      5.8
      TV Series
      • grip assistant: dailies
      • 2016
    • Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt, Penelope Wilton, Allen Leech, Michelle Dockery, Laura Carmichael, Lily James, Fifi Hart, and Oliver Barker in Downton Abbey (2010)
      Downton Abbey
      8.7
      TV Series
      • grip trainee
      • 2015
    • Dartmoor Killing (2015)
      Dartmoor Killing
      4.4
      • lighting assistant
      • 2015
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