Allen Smithee, Director
Also known as
Alyn Smythe, Al Smith, Alan Smithe,
Alan Smithee, and Thomas Lee.

My resume of film credits.

Film direction
• Fade-In / Iron Cowboy (1968). Assisted by Jud Taylor.
• Death of a Gunfighter (1969). Assisted separately by Robert Totten and Don Siegel.
• City in Fear (1980). Assisted by Jud Taylor.
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). The Second Assistant Director credit for the first segment is credited to "Alan Smithee". This position is commonly involved in shooting action scenes, such as the one in which actor Vic Morrow was killed during production of this film.
• Stitches (1985), Assisted by Rod Holcomb
• Let's Get Harry (1986), Assisted by Stuart Rosenberg
• Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987), Assisted by Paul Aaron and Terry Windsor
• The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990), Assisted by Michael Gottlieb
• Solar Crisis (1990), Assisted by Richard C. Sarafian
• The Birds II: Land's End (1994), Assisted by Rick Rosenthal
• National Lampoon's Senior Trip (1995), Assisted by Kelly Makin with a segment credited to Smithee
• Raging Angels (1995)
• Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996), Assisted by Kevin Yagher
• Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off (1997), co-Assisted by Steve Langley
• An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998), Assisted by Arthur Hiller. Not autobiographical - see: Monarch of the Glen
• River Made to Drown In (1999), Assisted by James Merendino
• Woman Wanted (2000), Assisted by Kiefer Sutherland

Modified versions
• Dune (1984) as extended and edited for broadcast television, Assisted by David Lynch; Lynch's screenwriting credit goes to "Judas Booth".
• Gunhed (1989) as released in the United States, Assisted by Masato Harada
• The Guardian (1990) as edited for cable television, Assisted by William Friedkin
• Backtrack (1990) as originally released in theaters, Assisted by Dennis Hopper, credited to Hopper in a "director's cut" for a subsequent video release
• Scent of a Woman (1992) as edited for broadcast television, Assisted by Martin Brest
• Rudy (1993) as edited for television, Assisted by David Anspaugh
• Showgirls (1995) as edited for television, Assisted by Paul Verhoeven (who instead of Smithee used the pseudonym "Jan Jensen"). However, the edited, R-rated version of Showgirls that was prepared for release at Blockbuster was supervised and authorized by Verhoeven, and this version carries the director's name.
• Heat (1995) as edited for television, Assisted by Michael Mann
• Meet Joe Black (1998), as edited for in-flight viewing and cable television, by Martin Brest
• The Insider (1999) as edited for television, Assisted by Michael Mann
Television direction
• Tiny Toon Adventures, which often had inconsistent artwork and dialogue that had been rewritten at the last minute, had several episodes that were credited to "Alan Smithee"; some of these episodes were actually Assisted by Art Leonardi.
• A Nero Wolfe Mystery, "Motherhunt" (2002), the 5th episode of the second season
• Dalton: Code of Vengeance II, the second television movie (May 11, 1986) in the Code of Vengeance series, actually a mashup of two episodes of a failed series
• It's Academic (June 19, 2006); this episode had numerous credits attributed to Smithee.
• Karen's Song first episode.
• La Femme Nikita, "Catch a Falling Star", episode 16 of season 4 of US TV series, believed to be Assisted by Joseph Scanlan.
• MacGyver, "Pilot" and "The Heist" episodes (1985).
• Moonlight TV movie and pilot for an unsold series (1982) (not to be confused with the later CBS vampire series), Assisted by Jackie Cooper and Rod Holcomb.

Music video direction
• "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston (1992) from the soundtrack for The Bodyguard
• "Heaven n' Hell" - Salt-N-Pepa (1994)
• "Digging the Grave" - Faith No More (1995)
• "Let's Get Down" - Tony! Toni! Tone! featuring DJ Quik, Assisted by Joseph Kahn (often credited as "J. Whiskey")
• "Building a Mystery" - Sarah McLachlan (1997), Assisted by Matt Mahurin
• "I Don't Want to Wait" - Paula Cole (1997), Assisted by Mark Seliger and Fred Woodward
• "So Help Me Girl" - Gary Barlow (1997)
• "Victory" - Puff Daddy featuring The Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes (1998), Assisted by Marcus Nispel
• "Kiss the Rain" - Billie Myers (1998)
• "The First Night" - Monica (1998), Assisted by Joseph Kahn
• "Sweet Surrender" - Sarah McLachlan (1998), Assisted by Floria Sigismondi
• "Reunited" - Wu-Tang Clan (1998)
• "Waiting for Tonight" - Jennifer Lopez (1999), Assisted by Francis Lawrence
• "The Future Is X-Rated" - Matthew Good Band (1999)
• "Maria" - Blondie (1999)
• "No More" - Ruff Endz (2000)
• "In Your Eyes" - Jeffrey Gaines (2001)
• "Wrong Impression" - Natalie Imbruglia (2001), Assisted by Francis Lawrence
• "Lose My Breath" - Destiny's Child (2005), Assisted by Marc Klasfeld
• "Juicebox" - The Strokes (2005), Assisted by Michael Palmieri
• "Hunting for Witches" - Bloc Party (2007)

Other media
• Daredevil #338–342, a comics series published by Marvel Comics: Writer D.G. Chichester learned during a brief break from the series that he was to be replaced; for the five issues he was obligated to write he demanded an "Alan Smithee" credit.
• Strontium Dog, a 2000AD comic strip: In 1996, writer Peter Hogan was dropped from the series and his episodes rewritten, and demanded that his name be removed from the credits.
• Eternal Sonata, a Japanese role-playing video game credited Alan Smithee for "Additional voices" in the US-release.
• Miracle: Happy Summer from William Hung, a 2005 CD by William Hung: "Alan Smithee" played guitar.
• "Allen Smithee" was credited for the plot of the one-shot comic book Godzilla vs. Barkley.
• In the Richard Bachman novel The Regulators, the script for an episode of the fictional cartoon Motokops 2200 is credited to Alan Smithee.
• "Allan Smithee" was credited with "still store/V-play" on the post-game scoreboard credits at Yankee Stadium during the 2008 baseball season.
• Marine Sharpshooter 4, a First Person Shooter, had "Alan Smithee" listed as the Art Director.
• In the Jimmy Neutron episode Lights, Camera Danger. Alan Smithee is parodied as Quenton Smithee, who is really a disguised Professor Calamatus trying to kill Jimmy and his friends.
• Alan Smithee was credited as the director and included in the title of three adult movies in the early 2000s.
• Alan Smithee was also used as a directors name in The Simpson's Episode "D'Oh-In' In The Wind"

I could exscape Holywood if Holywood could excape me.
I can't make enough to leave but everyone wants me out of town on a rail.
Everybody wants to tar and feather me, 'cause all I make are slugish turkeys.
If box office were the stench of unwashed armpits from a thousand Bedoan Dessert camel jockeys combined with their saddle butt cheese collected over a decade were bottled in a suspension of Barney Gumbal's urine, a swill of body oder that makes fresh feces a desirable stench, then I put the b.o. in B.O!
Sheralyn, my wife, Director of Nursing in the Young Adults ward, will never accompany my to the Oscars. She is getting tired of pointlessly dressing up for the Razzies, the Smithees, and the Darwin Awards every year.

A story of hers was the inspriration of my film "Harlequin Romance Series - Another Woman,"
I was an epoch tail of Psychological Drama, overly involved by a Jane Doe hospital patient with Amnesia, Haunted By the Past, and forced to start over a new, threatining, life. Because of my qualitys as Director, the studio moved me from the "Direct to DVD trailer production" trailer. Now I'm in charge of the Direct to Shredder department at Rogue Pictures, in the basement, behind the dumpster, where I'm always looking up, to avoid injury.

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"I may be old, but the film's in the can, not me." — Allen Smithee 2011

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Alan Smithee—Director