Toby Spanton |1st AD
Toby is a DGA 1st/2nd AD with 17 years experience as an Assistant Director on Feature Films, TV Dramas and Commercials. He has worked in 10 different countries on productions of all scales.
 
1st AD credits include Saint Maud, Ballywalter, Baby Reindeer, Phea and The Afterparty. 2nd AD credits include Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania, Fast & Furious 9, Watchmen, His House and The Last Voyage of Demeter.

Feature Films

GRQ 1st AD | UK Unit
GRQ LLC | Directed by Steven Bernstein
Produced by Scott Putman
SPIRITED 1st AD | UK Unit
Apple | Directed by Sean Anders
Produced by Aidan Elliott
LIFT Key 2nd AD
Netflix | 1st AD Mathew Dunne
UPM Andy Wilson
ANT-MAN & THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA 2nd AD | 2nd Unit
Marvel Studios | 1st AD Joe Geary
UPM Chris Moore
THE LAST VOYAGE OF DEMETER Key 2nd AD
Amblin | 1st AD Janell Sammelman
UPM Matt Hirsch
CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY Key 2nd AD
Working Title | 1st AD Cordelia Hardy
UPM Rachel Neale
BALLYWALTER 1st AD
BT22 Film Ltd | Directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah
Produced by James Bierman
ALL OF THIS UNREAL TIME  1st AD
Somesuch | Directed by Aoife McArdle 
Produced by Fran Thompson
PHEA 1st AD
Fade In Productions Ltd | Directed by Rocky Palladino 
Produced by Wendy Griffin
AGATHA AND THE CURSE OF ISHTAR  2nd AD
Darlow Smithson Productions Ltd | Directed by Sam Yates
Produced by Emily Dalton, Tom Dalton & Carol Harding 
FAST AND FURIOUS 9  2nd AD | 2nd Unit (Georgia)
FF9 Pictures Ltd | Directed by Justin Lin
Produced by Vin Diesel, Jeff Kirschenbaum & More
MADE IN ITALY  2nd AD
Rojovid Films Ltd | Directed by James D'Arcy
Produced by Pippa Cross & Sam Tipper-Hale
SAINT MAUD  1st AD
Film 4/BFI | Directed by Rose Glass
Produced by Andrea Cornwell 
HIS HOUSE  2nd AD
Yaya Productions Ltd | Directed by Remi Weekes
Produced by Aidan Elliott, Martin Gentles & More
RED JOAN  2nd AD
Trademark Films Ltd | Directed by Trevor Nunn
Produced by David Parfitt
DEAD IN A WEEK OR YOUR MONEY BACK  Additional 1st AD
Guild Of Assassins Ltd | Directed by Tom Edmunds
Produced by Nick Clark Windo & Daniel-Konrad Cooper
JUSTICE LEAGUE 2nd AD
Warner Bros. Pictures | Directed by Zack Snyder
Produced by Jon Berg, Geoff Johns, Charles Roven & Deborah Snyder
KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE 1st AD | Additional Photography
Twentieth Century Fox | Directed by Matthew Vaughn
Produced by Adam Bohling, David Reid & Matthew Vaughn
LONDON HAS FALLEN Floor 2nd AD | 2nd Unit
Millenium Films | Directed by Babk Najafi
Produced by Gerard Butler, Mark Gill & others

TV

THE GENTLEMEN 
Season 1
1st AD | 2nd Unit 
Moonage Pictures / Netflix | Directed by Eran Creevy, Saam Farahmand & Mat Whitcross
Produced by Guy Ritchie & Hugh Warren
BABY REINDEER 1st AD | Cover
Clerkenwell Films / Netflix | Directed by Weronika Tofilska
Produced by Matthew Mulot
THE AFTERPARTY
Season 2
1st AD | UK Unit
Sony / Apple | Directed by Chris Miller
Produced by Michael Cedar
THE FUCK IT BUCKET 1st AD | 2nd Unit
Left Bank Pictures / Netflix | Directed by Dionne Edwards & Charlie Manton
Series Produced by Huberta von Liel
THE GREAT 1st AD | Splinter Unit
MRC Productions/Yekaterina UK Ltd | Directed by Ally Pankiw
Executive Producer Tony McNamara
DAS BOOT
Series 2
Crowd 2nd AD
EMU Films | Directed by Andreas Prochaska, Matthias Glasner & Rick Ostermann
Produced by Various 
WATCHMEN
Series 1 | 8 Episodes
2nd AD
HBO | Directed by Nicole Kassell, Stephen Williams & More 
Produced by John Blair, Karen Wacker & More
MOTHERFATHERSON Additional 2nd AD
BBC | Directed by James Kent & Charles Sturridge
Produced by Sharon Bloom
HARD SUN 1st AD | 2nd Unit
Euston Films | Directed by David Winstone
Produced by Hugh Warren
THE SNOWMAN
2nd AD | Reshoots
Universal Pictures | Directed by Tomas Alfredson
Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner & Piodor Gustafsson
SENSE8
Series 2 
2nd AD
Netflix | Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski & More
Produced by J. Michael Straczynski & More
THE TUNNEL
Series 2 
2nd AD 
Canal+ | Directed by Gilles Bannier, Thomas Vincent & More
Produced by Julian Stevens, Ruth Kenley-Letts & Toby Welch 

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