Known for Lighting
Reg Garside is an Australian gaffer. He has worked extensively within the camera and electrical department, progressing from roles such as best boy and electrician to becoming a highly experienced gaffer on major Australian and international productions. Garside began accumulating screen credits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, serving as gaffer on productions including Jack Winter's Dream (1979) and On the Road with Red Mole (1979). During the early 1980s, he worked in various capacities in the electrical department, including best boy on Manganinnie (1980) and Harlequin (1980), and as an electrician on Heatwave (1982). He was a gaffer on a wide range of Australian features in this period, such as BMX Bandits (1983), Careful, He Might Hear You (1983), and The Bounty (1984), on which he was credited as an electrician. His television work included Shout! – The Story of Johnny O'Keefe (1985), Winners (1985), and the Australian episode of Inspector Morse (1987). By the late 1980s and early 1990s, Garside was regularly credited as gaffer on both domestic and international productions filmed in Australia. His credits from this period include The Mosquito Coast (1986), Gorillas in the Mist(1988), The Punisher (1989), Strictly Ballroom (1992), and Lorenzo's Oil (1992). He continued to build his reputation through the 1990s with work on films such as Street Fighter (1994), Dark City (1998), and The Matrix (1999), on which he served as gaffer on the groundbreaking science fiction production. In the 2000s, Garside contributed to several major international films shot in Australia and New Zealand. He returned to the Matrix franchise on The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and in The Matrix Revolutions (2003). He also worked as a gaffer on Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005). He continued with a steady slate of feature films, including Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010) and the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010). His collaboration on large-scale productions with Peter Jackson continued with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). Garside's later credits include major studio features such as San Andreas (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), and Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019). He has also worked on Marvel Studios productions, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). He continued his work on large-scale action and adventure films with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024), Anaconda (2025), The Bluff (2026), and Mortal Kombat II (2026).
Filmography
41 films


Anaconda
2025 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A group of friends facing mid-life crises head to the rainforest with the intention of remaking their favorite movie from their youth, only to find themselves in a fight for their lives against natural disasters, giant snakes and violent criminals.


Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
2024 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.


Thor: Love and Thunder
2022 · 1h 59m
country: United States
After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods, Thor Odinson enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who now wields Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor. Together they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.


Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021 · 2h 12m
country: United States
Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.


Ladies in Black
2018 · 1h 49m
country: Australia
Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.


7 Guardians of the Tomb
2018 · 1h 30m
country: Australia
An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000 year old nightmare - a secret that should have remained buried.


Thor: Ragnarok
2017 · 2h 11m
country: United States
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.


2:22
2017 · 1h 39m
country: Australia
Two planes almost collide after a blinding flash of light paralyzes air traffic controller Dylan Branson for a few seconds. Suspended from his job, Dylan starts to notice an ominous pattern of sounds and events that repeats itself in exactly the same manner every day, ending precisely at 2:22 p.m. Also drawn into a complex relationship with a woman, Dylan must figure out a way to break the power of the past and take control of time itself.


Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017 · 2h 9m
country: United States
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.


Kill Your Dinner
2016 · 12m
country: Australia
A father tries to reconnect with his son through an extremely misjudged bonding experience.


San Andreas
2015 · 1h 54m
country: Canada
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.


The Water Diviner
2014 · 1h 52m
country: Australia
In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.


The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014 · 2h 24m
country: New Zealand
Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.


The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012 · 2h 49m
country: New Zealand
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.


Red Hill
2010 · 1h 37m
country: Australia
Young police officer Shane Cooper's first day on duty, after relocating to the small town of Red Hill, rapidly turns into a nightmare. News of a prison break, involving convicted murderer Jimmy Conway, sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic and leads to a terrifying and bloody confrontation.


Tomorrow, When the War Began
2010 · 1h 43m
country: Australia
Ellie Linton, a teen from an Australian coastal town, leads her friends on an excursion to a camp deep in the woods, dubbed "Hell." Upon their return, the youths find that their town has been overrun by an enemy army, and their friends and family have been imprisoned. When the hostile invaders become alerted to their presence, Ellie and her friends band together to escape -- and strike back against -- this mysterious enemy.


King Kong
2005 · 3h 8m
country: United States
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.


Son of the Mask
2005 · 1h 34m
country: Germany
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.


The Matrix Revolutions
2003 · 2h 9m
country: United States
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.


The Matrix Reloaded
2003 · 2h 18m
country: United States
The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.


South Pacific
2001 · 2h 12m
country: United States
During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. The war is tearing them apart.


The Matrix
1999 · 2h 16m
country: United States
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.


Dark City
1998 · 1h 41m
country: Australia
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.


Street Fighter
1994 · 1h 42m
country: Australia
Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.


Country Life
1994 · 1h 58m
country: Australia
Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-law Alexander as a (supposedly brilliant) literary critic in London. Action begins when Alexander returns with his beautiful young wife Deborah, revealing himself as an arrogant failure and wanting to sell the farm out from under Jack. Blakemore introduces themes about Australia's separation from England, as well as expanding the pacifist and ecological philosophies espoused by the local Doctor Max Askey.


Lorenzo's Oil
1992 · 2h 15m
country: Australia
Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.


The Last Days of Chez Nous
1992 · 1h 33m
country: Australia
The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.


Strictly Ballroom
1992 · 1h 34m
country: Australia
Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?


Dadah Is Death
1988 · 3h
country: Australia
On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death... Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the Hangmans rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.


The Everlasting Secret Family
1988 · 1h 34m
country: Australia
A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.


The Marsupials: The Howling III
1987 · 1h 38m
country: Australia
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?


The Mosquito Coast
1986 · 1h 59m
country: United States
An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.


BMX Bandits
1983 · 1h 32m
country: Australia
Teens P.J. and Goose get their thrills on BMX bikes, performing hair-raising tricks all across Sydney, Australia. Along with their new friend Judy, they discover a box of walkie-talkies -- and find out that a gang of criminals intends to use them to monitor police signals during a bank robbery. When the young trio snatches the devices, it propels them on a hair-raising adventure in which their pedaling skills might just save their necks.


On the Road with Red Mole
1979 · 52m
country: New Zealand
A documentary about the New Zealand theatre troupe "Red Mole".