Tommy Harper

Tommy Harper, also credited as Thomas Harper, is an Assistant Director, Unit Production Manager, and Producer who worked as Second Unit Unit Production Manager and Second Assistant Director on . On , Harper received credit as Unit Production Manager and Co-Producer.
Harper previously worked with J.J. Abrams and many other members of the Star Trek crew as second assistant director on the 2006 Paramount Pictures release Mission: Impossible III, for which he was also first assistant director of additional photography. In addition, Star Trek was the third film starring Chris Pine that Harper worked on as an assistant director, after (2004) and (2006).
He began his career as a production assistant, during which time he worked on such films as Showgirls, Mulholland Falls, Marvin's Room, and Godzilla. He also assisted on 1998's Krippendorf's Tribe, which featured design work by Star Trek and Mission: Impossible III production designer Scott Chambliss.
He became an assistant director in 1998, with his early credits including (1999), (1999) and (2000). He was second assistant director on (2000), starring William Shatner, and (2002), scripted by John Logan. His other assistant directorial credits include (2001), (2002), (2003), (2003), (2007), Georgia Rule, (2007), and Blonde Ambition (2007).
Harper's credits as unit production manager include (2010), (2011), and (2011) on which he also worked as co-producer. More recently, Harper was an executive producer on (2013, starring Chris Pine, with David Paymer) and a consulting producer on the drama Big Eyes (2014). Harper joined Abrams' team again as executive producer for (2015), where he worked with producers Bryan Burk, Tommy Gormley, and Ben Rosenblatt, director of photography Dan Mindel, editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey, and costume designer Michael Kaplan.
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