Matthew D. Smith
Matthew Dennis Smith is an assistant director and former set production assistant. He was an Additional Second Assistant Director on Star Trek. [1]
Smith began his work in show business as a film set security officer. He ultimately became a production assistant on The Second Civil War (1997, featuring Joanna Cassidy, Jerry Hardin, Brian Keith, Dick Miller, Ron Perlman, Robert Picardo, and William Schallert).
He was later a production assistant on such two films from Paramount Pictures starring James Cromwell: Deep Impact (1998, featuring Ellen Bry, Denise Crosby, Mark Moses, Tucker Smallwood, Kurtwood Smith, and Concetta Tomei; and The General's Daughter (1999, co-starring Clarence Williams III). He was later an additional second assistant director on another Paramount movie featuring Cromwell, The Longest Yard (2005, featuring Ed Lauter and Christopher Neiman).
Smith's additional film credits as a set production assistant include A Smile Like Yours (starring Christopher McDonald and France Nuyen), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998, starring Angela Bassett, with Whoopi Goldberg), and Brokedown Palace (1998, starring Jacqueline Kim).
Smith's film credits as an assistant director have included Rat Race (2001, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Lanei Chapman), Adaptation (2002, featuring Jim Beaver, Gregory Itzin and Doug Jones), Anger Management (2003) and 50 First Dates (2004, with Amy Hill and Missi Pyle). He also worked on Tropic Thunder (2008), The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Bryan Singer's Valkyrie (2008).