John Tagamolila

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John Tagamolila
Birth name:	John C. Tagamolila
Date of birth:	14 April 1977
Roles:	Assistant and second unit directors Background actor
Character(s):	Starfleet operations officer

John C. Tagamolila (born 14 April 1977; age 48) worked as DGA trainee on the first eight episodes of the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise. For the latter season he held the position of the second second assistant director. Beginning with the fourth season he served as second assistant director on Enterprise. In addition, Tagamolila appeared as a background extra, Starfleet operations officer in the last episode "These Are The Voyages...". His costume from this performance was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay and was previously worn in Star Trek: The Next Generation. [1]^(X)

Tagamolila has started his career as a production assistant on the comedy Whacked (1998, with Todd Stashwick and Shauna Lewis) and worked as a cinematrographer on the short film Hobo Heaven in 2002. Prior to his Enterprise connection, Tagamolila was the second assistant director on the short film The Victim (2001) and K (2002), the second second assistant director on the science fiction short G Spots? (2001), Martin & Orloff (2002), and on four episodes of Nip/Tuck (2004, with Famke Janssen, Billy Mayo, Barbara J. Tarbuck and Fionnula Flanagan).

He served as DGA trainee on Family Law (2001-02, starring Christopher McDonald, Salli Elise Richardson, Michelle Horn and Orla Brady), Any Day Now (2001-02, with Olivia Hack), Gilmore Girls (2002), J.J. Abrams' Alias (2002, starring Merrin Dungey, with Tony Amendola, Joseph Ruskin, Kamala Lopez-Dawson, Ken Feinberg and April Webster), Without a Trace, Fastlane (2002), and Joan of Arcadia (2003, with Michael Welch).

Tagamolila later worked as second second assistant director on the comedy Her Minor Thing (2005), Material Girls (2006, with Brent Spiner, Timothy Davis-Reed and Anthony Crivello), the pilot episodes for The Nine (2006, with John Billingsley, Jessica Collins, Conor O'Farrell, Bonita Friedericy, Matthew Kaminsky and Ron Ostrow) and Manchild (2007), the television science fiction film Them (2007, with Chase Kim, Scott Lawrence and Rachel Nichols), and two episodes of Desperate Housewives (2007, with Teri Hatcher, Brenda Strong, Ellen Geer, John Rosenfeld, J. Michael Flynn and K Callan). He also worked as second assistant director on Vanished (2006) and for the Miami unit on Reno 911!: Miami (2007, with The Rock, Toby Huss and stunts by Chuck Borden and Gene LeBell).

Tagamolila was later the second second assistant director on Redbelt (2008, with stunts by Bevin Kaye and Boni Yanagisawa), first and second assistant director on Women's Murder Club (2007-08, starring Linda Park), and second assistant director on Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2008, with Cary-Hiroyuki, Jason Alexander and Erick Avari) and All About Steve (2009, with Wayne Grace and Symba Smith and DGA trainee Nicole Treston Abranian).

Star Trek: Enterprise credits

• ENT: as DGA trainee
  • "The Xindi"
  • "Anomaly (ENT)"
  • "Extinction"
  • "Rajiin"
  • "Impulse"
  • "Exile"
  • "The Shipment"
  • "Twilight"
• ENT: as second second assistant director
  • "North Star"
  • "Carpenter Street"
  • "Proving Ground"
  • "Doctor's Orders"
  • "Azati Prime"
  • "The Forgotten"
  • "The Council"
  • "Zero Hour"
• ENT: as second assistant director
  • "Borderland"
  • "Cold Station 12"
  • "The Augments"
  • "The Forge"
  • "Awakening"
  • "Kir'Shara"
  • "Daedalus"
  • "Observer Effect"
  • "Babel One"
  • "United"
  • "The Aenar"
  • "Affliction"
  • "Divergence"
  • "Bound"
  • "In A Mirror, Darkly"
  • "In A Mirror, Darkly, Part II"
  • "Demons"
  • "Terra Prime"
  • "These Are The Voyages..."

External link

• John Tagamolila at the Internet Movie Database