Biography
James McTeigue is an Australian film director. He has been an assistant director on many films, including No Escape (1994), the Matrix trilogy (1999–2003) and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), and made his directorial debut in the 2006 film V for Vendetta. Born on Sydney's North Shore, he grew up in Collaroy Plateau, a suburb on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. McTeigue attended Marist Brothers North Sydney then Cromer High School, in Cromer, a northern beach suburb o...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Matrix Resurrections
2021
as Innocuous Man
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
The Matrix Resurrections
2021
Producer
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
Breaking In
2018
Director
Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family so...
Survivor
2015
Director
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for cri...
Caserta Palace Dream
2014
Writer, Director
The greatest dream of a unique woman, Maria, future Queen of Spain and wife of Charles King of Naples and Sicily and of a special man, the greatest ar...
The Raven
2012
Director
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in t...
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
2010
as Self (archive footage)
A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
Ninja Assassin
2009
Director
Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer...
V for Vendetta
2006
Director
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive B...
The Matrix Reloaded: Car Chase
2004
as Himself
This thirty-minute documentary follows the Wachowski sisters and the film's crew through production on the film's famed highway chase sequence. We get...
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
First Assistant Director, Assistant Director
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing t...
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
2003
as Self
This making-of piece offers the standard mix of movie snippets, behind the scenes materials, and interviews from cast and crew on the making of the fi...
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
First Assistant Director, Assistant Director
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from...
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
Assistant Director, First Assistant Director
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could...
The Monkey's Mask
2001
Assistant Director
A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex.
Looking for Alibrandi
2000
First Assistant Director
Josie Alibrandi is 17 and doesn't know where she belongs. This year, however, everything is going to change. Josie will face her fears, uncover secret...
The Matrix
1999
First Assistant Director
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful co...
The Sugar Factory
1999
Second Assistant Director
With his distinctive voice and unusual view of life, Harris takes us through his story: a harrowing journey of humour, grief, resolution and redemptio...
Dark City
1998
Assistant Director
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic ...
The Well
1997
Second Assistant Director
A young girl named Katherine and her older friend Hester live on an isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and ...
Paradise Road
1997
Second Assistant Director
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during Wor...
To Have and to Hold
1996
Second Assistant Director
An Australian widower living in New Guinea starts a relationship with a woman very similar to his much-beloved wife, but their life together turns out...
The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996
Production Assistant
A plane crash surviving attorney stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have fo...
No Escape
1994
Second Second Assistant Director
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle is...
Midnight Dancer
1988
Production Office Assistant
16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney ca...
Blood Music
N/A
Director
An intelligent micro-organism experiment runs amok threatening to evolve the human race.
Alien Sleeper Cell
N/A
Director
Upcoming Scifi Actioner directed by Jason McTeigue
The Midnight Pool
N/A
Director, Producer
Johnny Black is a jaded journalist whom, after a personal tragedy, is lured into the shadows of an elite, exclusive society, where the pursuit of a ca...