Born: 18 February 1971, Mountain Lakes, NJ, USA, as Matthew T. Irving.

Education: Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. [BA in English & Communications]; University of Southern California's School of Cinema/Television  [USC] [MFA in 1996].

Career: Began shooting Super-8mm movies with his older brother Rick at the age of nine. Migrated West to San Francisco where he took part in an internship at Lucasfilm's spec efx facility, Industrial Light and Magic. Prod, dir & ph 16mm short films in San Francisco. Moved to Los Angeles and studied at the USC. Married to dir/prod and actress Cindy Baer [2005-present].

Website: Matthew Irving

1997        One [Tony Barbieri] s16-35bu/c

1998        The Shy and the Naked [Sean Hood] c; short/20m

1998        Love Without Socks [Jacques Thelemaque] c; short/14m; cph: Robert Winn; addph: Dave Sobel

1998        Baggage [Evan Aaronson] c

1998        The Magic of Marciano [Tony Barbieri] c

1999        Groove [Greg Harrison] s16-35bu/c

2000        My Best Friend's Wife/Grownups/Steve & Claire & Eric & Ami [Doug Finelli] c; 2uc: Joe Piccirillo

2001        Thank You, Good Night [Chuck Griffith] c

2001        Drive, She Said [Scott Somerndike] c

2002        Broken Up in the Promised Land [Cliff Traiman] ?; short/?m; status unknown

2002        Speakeasy [Brendan Murphy] c; released on DVD in 2005

2003        Monster Man [Michael Davis] c

2003        Saigon, U.S.A. [Lindsey Jang & Robert C. Winn] c; doc/57m; co-addph; ph: L. Jang & R.C. Winn

2003        Keep Your Distance [Stu Pollard] c

2004        Waiting... [Unrated and Raw] [Rob McKittrick] c

2004        Daltry Calhoun [Katrina Holden Bronson] s35/c; 2uc: Armanda Costanza

2005        Coolfuel Roadtrip [?] 18-part reality tv-series/dv; cph: Andy Olson & Scott Simper

2005        Cry_Wolf [Jeff Wadlow] s35/c; addph; ph: Romeo Tirone

2005        Waitress [Adrienne Shelly] c

2006        Morbid Curiosity [Cindy Baer] dv/c; short/6m; + story

2006        Still Waters [Carolyn Miller] c; addph: Dave Rutherford

2006        The Nines [John August] s16+35mm-to-35mm/c; addph; ph: Nancy Schreiber

2007        Antique [Renji Philip] pre-production; scheduled to start filming in April; status unknown

2007        The Pardon [Tom Anton] c

2007        Odd Brodsky [Cindy Baer] pre-production; + co-scrpl

2007        The Echo [Yam Laranas] s35/c; remake of 'Sigaw' (2004; dir + ph: Yam Laranas)

2008        Table for Three [Michael Samonek] c; 2uc: Matt Mosher

2008        Waiting for Forever [James Keach] c

1996        Cyberdorm [David Secter] 2nd c.asst; ph: Massimo Zeri

1998        Killer Flick [Mark Weidman] 1st c.asst; ph: Robert Stenger

2003        Purgatory House [Cindy Baer] co-assoc prod; ph: Christopher Nibley