Alan Smithee

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Alan Smithee

Directing April 8, 1969

Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) was an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, coined in 1968. Until its use was formally discontinued in 2000, i…

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The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show

7.0 1984 TV Show
Twilight Zone: The Movie

Twilight Zone: The Movie

6.5 1983 Movie
Hellraiser: Bloodline

Hellraiser: Bloodline

5.3 1996 Movie
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

5.3 1992 Movie
The Horror Show

The Horror Show

5.4 1989 Movie
Wash It All Away

Wash It All Away

7.5 2026 TV Show
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

3.9 1998 Movie
The Birds II: Land's End

The Birds II: Land's End

4.0 1994 Movie
Let's Get Harry

Let's Get Harry

6.2 1986 Movie
Eiken

Eiken

4.1 2003 TV Show
Death of a Gunfighter

Death of a Gunfighter

6.3 1969 Movie
Solar Crisis

Solar Crisis

4.4 1992 Movie

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Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) was an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, coined in 1968. Until its use was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when a director dissatisfied with the final product proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that he or she had not been able to exercise creative control over a film. The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the move or even to acknowledge being the actual director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Smithee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Wash It All Away

    TV show Storyboard Artist

  2. 2025
    Fantasmas

    Movie random guy on motorbike

  3. 2025
    Trust

    Movie Director

  4. 2025
    Tempo de vingança

    Movie Arvore

  5. 2025
    The Breakup

    Movie Writer

  6. 2025
    Thicker Than Blood

    Movie Director

  7. 2024
    The Wonders of Space | Live From Blue Oak County

    Movie Spit Johnson

  8. 2024
    A Deer's Deal

    Movie That Thing

  9. 2024
    Pavor Nocturnus

    Movie Director

  10. 2023
    Amityville Apocalypse

    Movie Director

  11. 2023
    Alla ricerca dei fantasmi italiani

    Movie Director

  12. 2023
    From Spices With Love

    Movie Screenplay

  13. 2023
    Khvicha's Porno

    Movie Director

  14. 2023
    Anatar

    Movie Director

  15. 2023
    Eternally Twilight: An AI's Guide to the Twilight Saga

    Movie Director

  16. 2020
    (No)Hope

    Movie Director

More credits
  1. 2020
    End of the Rope

    Movie Director

  2. 2019
    ANXIETY

    Movie Director

  3. 2018
    Sex & Water

    Movie Writer

  4. 2017
    Grindsploitation 3: Video Nasty

    Movie Director

  5. 2017
    Hot Lead

    Movie Director

  6. 2016
    Kiss of Death

    Movie Director

  7. 2014
    Il était une fois... Le Havre

    Movie Director

  8. 2014
    Ego Death

    Movie Director

  9. 2013
    Slender

    Movie Director

  10. 2011
    Another Night of the Living Dead

    Movie Director

  11. 2010
    Johnny

    Movie Writer

  12. 2010
    Tom Toal: On the Scrapheap

    Movie Director

  13. 2009
    Al final del camino

    Movie Idea

  14. 2008
    The Elusive David Agnew

    Movie Director

  15. 2008
    Winesburg, Ohio

    Movie Director

  16. 2007
    Heroes in Chains Vol. 2: Deadly Interrogation

    Movie Director

  17. 2006
    Heroes in Chains Vol. 1: Witness the Interrogation

    Movie Director

  18. 2005
    Fugitives Run

    Movie Director

  19. 2004
    Geki Uma!! Tenkaippin: Densetsu no Okonomiyaki-hen

    Movie Screenplay

  20. 2004
    Team Spirit

    Movie Director

  21. 2003
    Eiken

    TV show Series Director

  22. 2002
    An Enraged New World

    Movie Director

  23. 2002
    In the Wrong Hands

    Movie Director

  24. 1999
    Woman Wanted

    Movie Director