Rusty Mahmood
Rusty Mahmood is an assistant director who worked as second second assistant director on  and .

Mahmood worked as DGA trainee on the television series Partners (1995), The Pretender, Spy Game, Party of Five, Baywatch, ER, and Coach, the drama One Fine Day (1996), the theme park video Ellen's Energy Adventure (1996), the family comedy Leave It to Beaver (1997, starring Christopher McDonald), the thriller The Game (1997, with 1st AD Yudi Bennett), the thriller Hush (1998, with 2nd AD Debra Kent), the drama Pleasantville (1998, with Yudi Bennett and Nancy P. Townsend), and the drama American History X (1998, co-starring Jennifer Lien and Avery Brooks).

Among his credits as second second assistant director are the fantasy drama City of Angels (1998), the television science fiction thriller Mr. Murder (1998, starring Julie Warner and Bill Smitrovich), the drama October Sky (1999), the drama Anywhere But Here (1999), the comedy The Bachelor (1999), the television drama Horse Sense (1999), the crime drama The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), the crime drama High Crimes (2002, starring Ashley Judd) in which he also had a featured acting part, the drama Moonlight Mile (2002), and the comedy Intolerable Cruelty (2003).

Further credits as second assistant director include the television series Once and Again (2000, starring William O. Campbell, Susanna Thompson, and Jeffrey Nordling) and Carnivàle (2003), the drama Testosterone (2003), the comedy Garfield (2004), the fantasy film A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), the comedy The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005), and the comedy 10 Items or Less (2006).

Mahmood was the second unit first assistant director on the family movies Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties (2006), Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007), and Hop (2011). Between 2007 and 2013 he worked as second assistant and later first assistant director on the comedy series The Office.

Among his more recent credits as first assistant director are the television series Hello Ladies (2013), The Goldbergs (2013-2014), The Muppets (2015-2016), 100 Things to Do Before High School (2015-2016), Lady Dynamite (2016), Dear White People (2017), Stuck in the Middle (2017), Ghosted (2017-2018, starring Adam Scott), Casual (2016-2018), Pen15 (2019), Malibu Rescue (2019), and Dave (2020).

External links 
 
 Rusty Mahmood at LinkedIn.com

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