MATTHEW JACOBS

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Writing credits include THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE, DOCTOR WHO, LASSIE, STAR WARS:STAR-FIGHTER,  PAPERHOUSE, YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES and many more ranging from grind-house to art-house. 

Directing credits include award-winning TV feature films for the BBC: 
MOTHERTIME, HALLELUJAH ANYHOW, and indy movies YOUR GOOD FRIEND (2014) and BAR AMERICA (2015). He is currently in post-production on DOCTOR WHO AM I, an intimate documentary portrait of the American Doctor Who Fan which he has been co-directing with Vanessa Yuille. 

Acting credits include co-lead in 
BOXING DAY with Danny Huston which played in competition at the Venice Film Festival and was released theatrically in the UK. He has also played leads in two of his own features and he plays the Igor-equivalent character opposite Carrie Anne Moss and Xavier Samuel in Bernard Rose's FRANKENSTEIN and in 2018 appears as Antonin Scalia in the upcoming Dick Cheney biopic BACKSEAT directed by Adam McKay with Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Sam Rockwell.

He is represented by Sue Rodgers at Independent Talent Ltd. in the UK and managed by Julia Verdin at Rough Diamond Management in Los Angeles. (IMDB)

He has also taught at UCLA (Extension screenwriting), University of Texas at Austin (Thesis classes for directing both Grad and Undergrad), Cal State Summer Arts (Screenwriting), City College of San Francisco (Directing), and Academy of Art University San Francisco (Screenwriting, Directing and Acting for Camera).

ACTING SHOWREEL

BOXING DAY - EXCLUSIVE FILM PAGE & REELS
FRANKENSTEIN - EXCLUSIVE FILM PAGE & REEL


​SELECTED WRITING & DIRECTING CLIPS

THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE

Writer (shared)
​Walt Disney Animation

DOCTOR WHO

Writer/Co-Producer
BBC/Fox TV/Universal TV

YOUNG INDIANA JONES

Writer
​Lucasfilm/ABC/Paramount

YOUR GOOD FRIEND

Director/Writer/Lead
Dovetale/Kinonation. 2014

BAR AMERICA

Director/Wrier/Lead
​Rockbridge/Kinonation 2015

DOCTOR WHO AM I

Co-Director
​IN POST-PRODUCTION

HALLELUJAH ANYHOW

Director/Writer
BBC/British Film Institute

MOTHERTIME

Director/Screenplay
BBC Films

PAPERHOUSE

Screenplay
Working Title Films
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