David Till

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David Till is a production manager, assistant director and producer who worked as Production Manager on Star Trek: Discovery. [1]

Till started his career as third assistant director in the 1980s and worked on projects such as Seeing Things (1985), One Magic Christmas (1985, with Graham Jarvis), Love and Larceny (1985), and the television drama A Deadly Business (1986).

He then worked as second assistant director on Street Justice (1987, with Richard Cox, William Windom, Alan Scarfe and Lou Elias), Dead of Winter (1987), Rolling Vengeance (1987), Bridge to Silence (1989), Perfect Witness (1989, with Colm Meaney), and Friday the 13th: The Series (1989-90).

Further credits as assistant director include Married to It (1991), To Catch a Killer (1992, with Meg Foster), Oh, What a Night (1992, starring Barbara Williams, with Genevieve Bujold), the drama Bonds of Love (1993, with Gordon Clapp), the thriller Taking the Heat (1993), the television drama Ultimate Betrayal (1994, with Justin Louis), the television movie The Spider and the Fly (1994), Sugartime (1995, with Larissa Laskin), the television thriller Where's the Money, Noreen? (1995), the television movie Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice (1996, with post-production supervisor David S. Grant), Gotti (1996, with Marc Lawrence), The Arrow (1997, with Robin Gammell and Christopher Plummer), the television drama The Absolute Truth (1997, with Bruce Greenwood), Good Will Hunting (1997, starring Robin Williams and Matt Damon), and Storm of the Century (1999, with Becky Ann Baker and Steve Rankin). For his work on Charlie & Me (2008), Till received a Directors Guild of Canada Team Award nomination in the category Television Movie/Mini-Series – Family.

In the late 1990s, Till has started to work as production manager for film television movies and series such as Flood: A River's Rampage (1998, with Kate Vernon), Deep in My Heart (1999, with Alice Krige), the sport comedies Coming Unglued (1999) and Switching Goals (1999), and The City (1999-2000, with Larissa Laskin), A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001, co-starring Bill Smitrovich and Saul Rubinek), and Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2003-05).

Further credits as production manager include the sport drama The Man Who Lost Himself (2005), Doomstown (2006), Runaway (2006, with Leslie Hope), Daniel's Daughter (2008, executive produced by Gerald W. Abrams and also produced by Till), Amreeka (2009), The National Tree (2009, executive produced by Gerald W. Abrams and produced by Till), Dan for Mayor (2010), the television drama Fairfield Road (2010, with Derek McGrath, executive produced by Gerald W. Abrams and produced by Till), and Nikita (2010-13, co-starring Melinda Clarke).

Till later worked as production manager on Beauty & the Beast (2013-15, produced by Kevin Lafferty), Heroes Reborn (2015, with Nazneen Contractor, Greg Grunberg, Carlos LaCamara, Eve Harlow and Cristine Rose), and The Kennedys After Camelot (2017, produced by Kevin Lafferty).

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