---
name: "Matt Hilton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matt-hilton"
fi1m_id: "matt-hilton"
tmdb_id: 2874848
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T11:32:56.033714+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Matt Hilton

## Identity

Matt Hilton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/matt-hilton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** matt-hilton
- **TMDB ID:** 2874848
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2874848

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 1960–1986
- **Frequently works with:** [Alan Grint](https://film.one/person/alan-grint.md), [Alan Wareing](https://film.one/person/alan-wareing.md), [David Kester](https://film.one/person/david-kester.md), [Gill Wilkinson](https://film.one/person/gill-wilkinson.md), [Graeme Harper](https://film.one/person/graeme-harper.md), [Jordan Hogg](https://film.one/person/jordan-hogg.md), [Judith Dine](https://film.one/person/judith-dine.md), [Ken Grieve](https://film.one/person/ken-grieve.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 74 (1), 1980s 68 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2874848

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Coronation Street*](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md) (74), [*Casualty*](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md) (68)

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## Biography

Matt Hilton is a British television director. He studied BA (Hons) Film and Media Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. After graduating he worked as a runner and then assistant director on ITV productions including *Coronation Street* before moving into directing.

He has directed numerous episodes of *Coronation Street* (from 2014), *Emmerdale* (from 2016), *Casualty* (2019–2024) and *Hollyoaks* (2018). He is noted as one of the younger directors to have taken charge of episodes on these long-running series.

*Sources: lancashire.ac.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Casualty* (1986), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *Coronation Street* (1960), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *3 Minutes of Silence* (2020), Producer
- *Casualty* (1986), series, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *Emmerdale* (1972), series, Director
- *Coronation Street* (1960), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/matt-hilton