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Jonathan Southard(I)

  • Director
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Production Manager
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Jonathan Southard
Jonathan Southard grew up as a child actor in New York City, attended the Dwight School in Manhattan, where he fondly remembers a more "Scorsese-Like NYC" , and won honors both academically and theatrically at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. After over 20 years as an actor, Jonathan moved into film production in 1987, becoming a full-time First Assistant Director in 1994. To date, he has delivered over 90 feature films and hundreds of commercials, promos and other short-form products. Moving into the Director's chair, Jonathan directed High Expectations, a feature drama set in the world of championship soccer in the fall of 2020. Next up will be directing and producing Boundary Lines, a period drama set in the 1980's, about a man returning to his small southern hometown after 23 years in prison in search of his long lost daughter. He just celebrated his 12th anniversary with Prime Time Emmy winner Wendy Southard (Hairstyling FEUD: Bette and Joan), living happily in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.
BornJuly 19, 1960
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Tres Hombres - Extraction 2014
Marauders - Cinncinnati 2015
Jonathan Southard
Soaked In Bleach 2014
High Expectations 2020
Jonathan Southard
Jonathan Southard
Directing during a pandemic.
Jonathan Southard
Jonathan Southard
Look At Me 2010
Dragon Wars

Known for:

High Expectations (2022)
High Expectations
5.6
  • Director
  • 2022
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Gloria Stuart, and Frances Fisher in Titanic (1997)
Titanic
7.9
  • Second Unit or Assistant Director(second unit)
  • 1997
Sylvester Stallone and Dave Bautista in Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018)
Escape Plan 2: Hades
3.9
  • Second Unit or Assistant Director
  • 2018
Bruce Willis, Christopher Meloni, and Dave Bautista in Marauders (2016)
Marauders
5.5
  • Second Unit or Assistant Director
  • 2016

Credits

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Director

  • High Expectations (2022)
    High Expectations
    • Director
    • 2022

Second Unit or Assistant Director

  • The Temp Agency
    • first assistant director
    • Released
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2014
  • Please Don't Feed the Children
    • first assistant director
    • In Production
  • Run
    • first assistant director
    • Pre-production
  • Bruce Willis and Ashley Greene in Wrong Place (2022)
    Wrong Place
    • first assistant director
    • 2022
  • Bruce Willis, Michael Rooker, Dan Payne, Hayley Sales, and Brennan Mejia in Corrective Measures (2022)
    Corrective Measures
    • first assistant director: Georgia Unit
    • 2022
  • Bruce Willis, Chad Michael Murray, Lydia Hull, and Riley Wolfe Rach in Survive the Night (2020)
    Survive the Night
    • first assistant director
    • 2020
  • Bruce Willis, Tito Ortiz, and Nicky Whelan in Trauma Center (2019)
    Trauma Center
    • first assistant director
    • 2019
  • Bruce Willis and Michael Chiklis in 10 Minutes Gone (2019)
    10 Minutes Gone
    • first assistant director
    • 2019
  • John Travolta, Michael Madsen, Shania Twain, Kevin Dunn, and Toby Sebastian in Trading Paint (2019)
    Trading Paint
    • first assistant director: second unit
    • 2019
  • Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Modine, Christopher McDonald, Colin Egglesfield, Swen Temmel, and Sergio Rizzuto in Backtrace (2018)
    Backtrace
    • first assistant director
    • 2018
  • Sylvester Stallone and Dave Bautista in Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018)
    Escape Plan 2: Hades
    • first assistant director
    • 2018
  • Bruce Willis and Hayden Christensen in First Kill (2017)
    First Kill
    • first assistant director
    • 2017
  • Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Johnathon Schaech, and Adrian Grenier in Arsenal (2017)
    Arsenal
    • first assistant director
    • 2017
  • Attention Deficit Theater (2016)
    Attention Deficit Theater
    • first assistant director (2016)
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Bruce Willis, Christopher Meloni, and Dave Bautista in Marauders (2016)
    Marauders
    • first assistant director
    • 2016
  • Bruce Willis and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in Precious Cargo (2016)
    Precious Cargo
    • first assistant director
    • 2016
  • Bruce Willis, Kellan Lutz, and Gina Carano in Extraction (2015)
    Extraction
    • first assistant director
    • 2015
  • Robert De Niro, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Dave Bautista in Heist (2015)
    Heist
    • first assistant director
    • 2015

Production Manager

  • John Leguizamo, Justin Long, Skyler Stone, and Tiya Sircar in Walking with Dinosaurs 3D (2013)
    Walking with Dinosaurs 3D
    • unit production supervisor
    • 2013
  • Mili Avital, Benjamin Bratt, Stephen Lang, Herbert Franzier, Simone-Élise Girard, Bernard Graham, Nancy Sinclair, Nestor Serrano, Rosalie Staines, and Bob Walton in After the Storm (2001)
    After the Storm
    • production supervisor
    • TV Movie
    • 2001
  • Personal Vendetta (1996)
    Personal Vendetta
    • unit production manager
    • TV Movie
    • 1996
  • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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  • Alternative name
    • Jonathan M. Southard
  • Height
    • 6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
  • Born
    • July 19, 1960
    • West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Spouses
      Wendy SouthardNovember 27, 2009 - present

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    • Southtown

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