Rhys Thomas

Rhys Thomas (born 18 September 1979) is a Welsh director and producer best known for his work on Saturday Night Live for NBC and the series Documentary Now! for IFC. Rhys Thomas became the Saturday Night Live Film Unit producer in 2005 and in 2010 began directing shorts, music videos, and commercial parodies for the show. He also directed and produced the SNL opening credit sequence in 2012–2018 and the opening credits for the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, which he also produced and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special in 2015. In 2015 he made his feature film debut with the film Staten Island Summer written by Colin Jost. That year he also directed John Mulaney’s Emmy-nominated stand-up special The Comeback Kid for Netflix. Thomas is also a co-creator and director of the Emmy-nominated IFC series Documentary Now!. In 2016, he also produced the Adele Live in New York City concert special for NBC, for which he earned his fourth Primetime Emmy nomination. He also produced and directed the opening credits for the talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers. In 2017, he produced and directed all six episodes of the Amazon Prime show Comrade Detective starring Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He teamed with Bill Hader again in 2018 for Pringles' first-ever Super Bowl commercial. In 2021, Thomas served as an executive producer and directed episodes 1, 2, and 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Hawkeye. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bert and Bertie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Staten Island Summer

Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.

Release Date2015-06-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd The Devil (voice)

Vote Count243

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye

Join the likes of Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Florence Pugh, and Vincent D’Onofrio as they reveal how Marvel Studios’ “Hawkeye” was conceived and created. Witness firsthand what it took to pull off the show’s pulse-pounding action set pieces, and discover how iconic characters from the pages of Marvel Comics such as Kate Bishop were adapted and brought to life for the six-episode series.

Release Date2022-02-09

Charactersd Self - Director / Executive Producer

Vote Count46

Hawkeye

Former Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a superhero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton’s past threatens to derail far more than the festive spirit.

Release Date2021-11-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count3486

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn’t think even existed anymore.

Release Date2015-03-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count562

Documentary Now!

Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.

Release Date2015-08-20

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count27

Vote Count73

Chad

A 14-year-old Persian boy desperately tries to fit in, cope with his mother's dating life, and figure out his cultural identity.

Release Date2021-04-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count21

Comrade Detective

In the 1980s, millions of Romanians tuned in to Comrade Detective, a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show that has now been digitally remastered and dubbed into English for the first time.

Release Date2017-08-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count37

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins

A disgraced former football player is on a mission to rehabilitate his image.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count1

John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch

John Mulaney and his kid pals tackle existential topics for all ages with catchy songs, comedy sketches and special guests in a nostalgic variety special.

Release Date2019-12-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count101

John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid

Armed with boyish charm and a sharp wit, the former "SNL" writer offers sly takes on marriage, his beef with babies and the time he met Bill Clinton.

Release Date2015-11-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count256

Queen: From Rags to Rhapsody

To mark the 40th anniversary of Bohemian Rhapsody, this documentary digs deep into archive to tell the story of Queen as it follows their journey from a struggling band gigging at pubs and colleges to the moment they captured the UK's hearts and minds with what was to become one of - if not the - greatest song of all time. Queen's formative years have never been explored in such detail. With a wealth of unseen interviews, recently unearthed rushes of Queen's first ever video and outtakes from the recording sessions of Bohemian Rhapsody itself, this is the unique story of early Queen, told by the band themselves. This documentary completes the final part of the trilogy alongside Days of Our Lives and Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender. It's simple. It's real. It's raw. It's what happened.

Release Date2015-12-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count9

Robotech

Based on the popular 80s anime TV series, story of Robotech is set in a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology of an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific island and is now using that technology to fight off an impending alien invasion.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Queen: Greatest Video Hits

Greatest Video Hits 1 was the first Queen video collection on DVD. Most of the content was released previously on the VHS cassette Greatest Flix in 1981. It was released in October 2002, and included video hits of the band between 1973 and 1981. There is also a Greatest Video Hits 2. The DVD peaked at number one in UK, with sales of more than 90,000 copies. It was also the best selling DVD of the year in 2002. It was also number one in USA (platinum), Germany (gold), Spain and other countries. It was also 4 times platinum in Australia, 3 times platinum in Canada, platinum in Poland, and other places.

Release Date2002-10-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Party Monster: Scratching the Surface

In the probing documentary "Party Monster," DJ Fingablast investigates what became of his childhood hero, DJ Slizzard.

Release Date2018-05-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1