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Rhys Thomas (b. 1979)

Alias:
Morgan Rhys Thomas

Born:
September 18, 1979

Biography from TheMovieDB

Rhys Thomas (born 18 September 1979) is a Welsh director and producer best known for his work on Saturday Night Live for NBC and the series Documentary Now! for IFC.  Rhys Thomas became the Saturday Night Live Film Unit producer in 2005 and in 2010 began directing shorts, music videos, and commercial parodies for the show. He also directed and produced the SNL opening credit sequence in 2012–2018 and the opening credits for the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, which he also produced and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special in 2015. In 2015 he made his feature film debut with the film Staten Island Summer written by Colin Jost. That year he also directed John Mulaney’s Emmy-nominated stand-up special The Comeback Kid for Netflix.  Thomas is also a co-creator and director of the Emmy-nominated IFC series Documentary Now!. In 2016, he also produced the Adele Live in New York City concert special for NBC, for which he earned his fourth Primetime Emmy nomination. He also produced and directed the opening credits for the talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers. In 2017, he produced and directed all six episodes of the Amazon Prime show Comrade Detective starring Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He teamed with Bill Hader again in 2018 for Pringles' first-ever Super Bowl commercial.  In 2021, Thomas served as an executive producer and directed episodes 1, 2, and 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Hawkeye.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Bert and Bertie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
2015  John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid
2015  Staten Island Summer
2018  Party Monster: Scratching the Surface
2019  John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
????  Robotech

Executive Producer:
2015  John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid
2015  Staten Island Summer
2018  Party Monster: Scratching the Surface
2019  John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
????  Robotech

Post Production Producer:
2011  The Ambiguously Gay Duo: The Dark, Clenched Hole of Evil
2015  John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid
2015  Staten Island Summer
2018  Party Monster: Scratching the Surface
2019  John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
????  Robotech

Producer:
2011  The Ambiguously Gay Duo: The Dark, Clenched Hole of Evil
2015  John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid
2015  Queen: From Rags to Rhapsody
2015  Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special
2015  Staten Island Summer
2018  Party Monster: Scratching the Surface
2019  John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
????  Robotech

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TV Production

Creator:
2015  Documentary Now!

Director:
2015  Documentary Now!
2015  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2017  Comrade Detective
2021  Chad
2021  Hawkeye

Executive Producer:
2015  Documentary Now!
2015  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2017  Comrade Detective
2021  Chad
2021  Hawkeye

Producer:
1975  Saturday Night Live
2015  Documentary Now!
2015  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2017  Comrade Detective
2021  Chad
2021  Hawkeye

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