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Ian R. Calip (born 20 August 1970; age 53) is an assistant director who worked as Second Assistant Director on Star Trek Into Darkness. Calip previously worked as second assistant director for J.J. Abrams on Super 8 (2011), along with first assistant director Tommy Gormley and second second assistant director Clark Credle.
Starting in 1994 with Natural Born Killers, Calip worked as set staff assistant and production assistant on feature films such as U Turn (1997), Any Given Sunday (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), Seabiscuit (2003), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004, with Chris Pine), War of the Worlds (2005), and Elizabethtown (2005, with Kirsten Dunst).
In addition to his duties behind the camera, Calip appeared as a football player in Nixon (1995, with Paul Sorvino, Robert Beltran, Saul Rubinek, Victor Rivers, Annette Helde, Richard Fancy, Michelle Krusiec, Charles Haugk, Tony Plana, Bill Bolender, and Marilyn Rockafellow. On Big Fish (2003), Calip was hired as set staff assistant and stunt double.
Since 2005, Calip has been working as assistant director with credits as second second assistant director on Rent (2005), 10 Items or Less (2006), Into the Wild (2007), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Milk (2008), Race to Witch Mountain (2009, starring Dwayne Johnson), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009), Greenberg (2010), The Ides of March (2011), and the Enlightened television pilot (2011).
As second assistant director, Calip worked on You Again (2010), Rango (2011), Restless (2011), Argo (2012), and August: Osage County (2013, with Benedict Cumberbatch). His work on Argo earned him a Director's Guild of America Award in the category Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures in 2013, which he shared with Clark Credle.
External link[]
- Ian Calip at the Internet Movie Database