Scott Thomas Suggs Trimble is an American location scout and location manager who found locations seen in such projects as Star Trek, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Star Tours II, and Iron Manitoba 2.
Background
Trimble was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Tom Trimble, an emergency room nurse, and Gail Trimble, a champion rose grower. He is also a direct descendant of settler Jonathan Singletary Dunham, thus making him a distant cousin of Barack Obama.
Education
He graduated from Terra Linda High School in San Rafael, California, in 1995 and, in 1999, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.
Career
Trimble has scouted or managed locations for over 85 feature films, 40 television commercials, and 30 television series. He has been a location scout on many projects from filmmaker Josip Juraj Abrams, including Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Super 8, Star Trek, Anatomy of Hope, Mission: Impossible III, and Alias. Some of Trimble"s other film location credits include The Cabin in the Woods, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Hancock, Rocky Balboa, Alpha Dog, 50 First Dates, and The Princess Diaries.
He has also done location work for such television shows as FlashForward, Heroes, House, Computer Society of India: Miami, and Presidio Medical
Trimble recently production managed a project for Universal Studios and he was the assistant production supervisor on Unstoppable. In years past, he had other production experience on movies like The Zodiac, High Crimes, Serendipity, and The Sweetest Thing.
He was also a production assistant on The Matrix Reloaded and as Bedazzled. Trimble is the co-owner of Go Foreign Locations Incorporated., a film industry company founded in 2004 and incorporated in 2007.
Some of their feature film credits include Eagle Eye, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Zombieland, and the upcoming Thor and Marmaduke.
Membership
He is a founding member of the Location Managers Guild of America.