David R. Ellis

Q: Has David R. Ellis won any awards?

While David R. Ellis did not receive major awards, he was recognized within the horror community for his impactful films and contributions to the genre.

Q: What was David R. Ellis's first film as a director?

David R. Ellis made his directorial debut with 'Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco' in 1996, showcasing his ability to handle family-friendly narratives.

Q: What is David R. Ellis's estimated net worth?

David R. Ellis's estimated net worth is around $5 million, reflecting his career in acting and directing over the years.

Q: What unique elements did David R. Ellis bring to his films?

David R. Ellis was known for incorporating thrilling and suspenseful elements into his films, often enhancing the horror experience with creative direction.

Q: What genres is David R. Ellis most associated with?

David R. Ellis is primarily associated with the horror and thriller genres, gaining fame for his work in films that emphasize suspense and excitement.

Q: Did David R. Ellis have a background in acting before directing?

Yes, David R. Ellis had a background in acting, appearing in various films and television shows prior to establishing himself as a director.

Q: What impact did David R. Ellis have on the horror genre?

David R. Ellis made a significant impact on the horror genre through his innovative storytelling and direction, particularly with the 'Final Destination' series.

Known for

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone poster

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2016)

IMDb 7.6 / 10

2016 / Fantasy / N/A

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's...

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

IMDb 7.2 / 10

2003 / Action, Sci-Fi / 138 min

This making-of piece offers the standard mix of movie snippets, behind the scenes materials, and interviews from cast and crew on the making of...

Final Destination 2 (2003)

IMDb 6.2 / 10

2003 / Horror, Thriller / 90 min

When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they?...

Name

David R. Ellis

Height

6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Born

8 February 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA

Spouses

Katherine Ellis (2003–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Richard Ellis, Mary Ellis

Estimated Net Worth

$5 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2010	Movie Body Count: The Deaths of "Final Destination" Retrospective of the "Final Destination" film series.	Self	Not rated
2007	Movie Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles Documentary focusing on expert snake wrangler Jules Sylvester. Produced for the “Snakes on a Plane” DVD.	Self	Not rated
2007	Movie Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes Filmmakers and stars discuss the film, their phobias, and of course, snakes. Produced for the “Snakes on a Plane” DVD.	Self	Not rated
2007	Movie The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane' A production diary chronicling scenes involving real snakes. Produced for the “Snakes on a Plane” DVD.	Self	Not rated
2006	Movie Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane Samuel L. Jackson along with the cast & crew break down the making of the cult action spectacle.	Self	Not rated
2004	Movie Dialing Up "Cellular" Documentary about the making of the film featuring director David Ellis, producers Dean Devlin and Lauren Loyd, screenwriters Larry Cohen...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2003	Movie Bits and Pieces: Bringing Death to Life Documentary focusing on the history of splatter cinema from the theatre of The Grand Guignol to the cutting edge work...	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1989	Movie Blind Fury A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow...	Ski Lodge Killer #3	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1989	Movie The Mighty Quinn Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island....	Jersey	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1987	Movie Anna Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own...	Daniel's Father	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1982	Movie Rocky III Following Rocky Balboa's intense battle with his most powerful adversary yet – the ferocious Clubber Lang – Rocky joins forces...	Opponent	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1977	Movie Heroes A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road...	Bar Patron #1	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1975	TV Wonder Woman With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder...	Ludwig	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1975	Movie The Strongest Man in the World Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab...	David (Student)	TMDB 6.2 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2014	Movie Winter's Tale A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2013	Movie 47 Ronin Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2013	Movie R.I.P.D. A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2011	Movie Shark Night 3D A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2010	Movie Cop Out Detectives Jimmy and Paul, despite nine years as partners, can still sometimes seem like polar opposites—especially when Paul's unpredictable antics...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2009	Movie The Final Destination A horrifying premonition saves a young man and his friends from death during a racetrack accident but terrible fates await...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2008	Movie Asylum The teenager Madison McBride is traumatized by the loss of her deranged father when she was nine years old and...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.1 / 10
2006	Movie Snakes on a Plane FBI agent Neville Flynn boards a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a key witness to testify against...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2005	Movie Just Like Heaven Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	Movie Cellular A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2003	Movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2003	Movie The Matrix Reloaded The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2003	Movie Final Destination 2 When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2001	Movie Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2001	Movie Rock Star A wannabe rock star who fronts a Pennsylvania-based tribute band is devastated when his bandmates kick him out of the...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2001	Movie Just Visiting A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2001	Movie Exit Wounds Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2000	Movie The Kid Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2000	Movie The Perfect Storm In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1999	Movie Ride with the Devil Friends Jake and Jack Bull join up with Civil War guerrilla fighters, yet after the realities of war set in,...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1999	Movie Blue Streak Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1999	Movie Deep Blue Sea Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1998	Movie Soldier Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1998	Movie Holy Man In a world governed by commerce, Ricky and Kate, dedicated employees, find their lives forever changed when they encounter the...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1998	Movie The Negotiator The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1998	Movie Sphere A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1998	Movie Desperate Measures San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1997	Movie The Devil's Own Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1996	Movie Harriet the Spy Harriet may only be in the sixth grade, but she's already found her calling: to be a spy. In a...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1996	Movie Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy navigate the mean streets of San...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1995	Movie Waterworld In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1994	Movie The Jungle Book Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1994	Movie The Jungle Book Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1994	Movie Clear and Present Danger Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1994	Movie Blank Check Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston Waters is fed up with his family — especially...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1994	Movie My Father the Hero A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1994	Movie Iron Will When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1993	Movie Beethoven's 2nd Beethoven is back -- and this time, he has a whole brood with him now that he's met his canine...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1993	Movie The Man Without a Face Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1993	Movie Sliver A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended under mysterious circumstances.	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1993	Movie Sliver A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended under mysterious circumstances.	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1993	Movie Warlock: The Armageddon Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1993	Movie Body of Evidence When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson,...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1993	Movie Body of Evidence When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson,...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1993	Movie Made in America A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that wasn't bad enough, he's white.	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1993	Movie Made in America A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that wasn't bad enough, he's white.	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1992	Movie Forever Young A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1992	Movie Whispers in the Dark Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1992	Movie Patriot Games When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1992	Movie Patriot Games When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1992	Movie Thunderheart A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1992	Movie Kuffs George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1992	Movie Kuffs George Kuffs didn't finish high-school, just lost his job, and his college-age girlfriend is pregnant. To top it off, George's...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1991	Movie The Addams Family When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1991	Movie Life Stinks Affluent and arrogant businessman Goddard Bolt, feuding with rival Vance Crasswell over a land deal, makes a bet with Crasswell...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1991	Movie Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1990	Movie Misery After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1990	Movie The Freshman After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1990	Movie Ghost Dad Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of financial...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1990	Movie Days of Thunder Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1990	Movie Impulse A Los Angeles vice cop, caught between her undercover role as a sex worker and her personal relationships, is thrown...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1990	Movie Catchfire A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1990	Movie The Last of the Finest An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1990	Movie The Last of the Finest An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1990	Movie Everybody Wins A seemingly good Samaritan hires a private detective to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 4.1 / 10
1989	Movie Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge A young man named Eric apparently dies in a suspicious house fire after saving his girlfriend, Melody. One year later,...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1989	Movie Tennessee Nights When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing in Tennessee's backwoods, he ends...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1989	Movie Star Trek V: The Final Frontier A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1989	Movie Warlock In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1989	Movie Warlock In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural...	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1989	Movie Road House The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1989	TV Baywatch Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1989	Movie She's Out of Control A Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1989	Movie Dead Bang Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1989	Movie Gleaming the Cube An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1988	Movie The Presidio Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1987	Movie Real Men A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1987	Movie Fatal Attraction A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1987	Movie Fatal Attraction A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1987	Movie Fatal Attraction A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1987	Movie Burglar Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1987	Movie Lethal Weapon A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1987	Movie Critical Condition Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1986	Movie The Wraith Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1986	Movie Condor In futuristic Los Angeles, a crime-fighting organization known as Condor goes up against the Black Widow, a female master criminal....	Second Unit Director Directing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1986	Movie A Fine Mess Two friends discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it, but soon have to...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1986	Movie Out of Bounds Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1985	Movie To Live and Die in L.A. When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1983	Movie Gorky Park Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1983	Movie Scarface After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1983	Movie National Lampoon's Vacation Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1983	Movie Private School Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1983	Movie Second Thoughts Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1982	Movie Airplane II: The Sequel A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1982	Movie Lookin' to Get Out Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1982	Movie The Beastmaster Dar, the son of a king, is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family....	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1982	Movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High A group of Southern-California high school students ignore their studies in favor of indulging in their teenage distractions.	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1982	Movie MegaForce MegaForce is an elite multi-national military unit that does the jobs that individual governments won't. When the peaceful Republic of...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1981	Movie Taps Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1981	Movie Sharky's Machine Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1981	Movie Nice Dreams Nice Dreams - it rhymes with ice creams. And that's what Cheech and Chong are selling in this thoroughly wacky...	Stunt Double Crew	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1981	Movie S.O.B. A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1981	Movie Take This Job and Shove It A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1981	Movie King of the Mountain A group of friends race their high-powered cars up and down a dangerous and deadly mountain road known as Mulholland...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1981	Movie Back Roads A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1980	Movie Smokey and the Bandit II The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T....	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1980	Movie Carny Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1979	Movie Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1978	Movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department...	Stunt Coordinator Crew	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1978	Movie Hooper Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1978	Movie Hot Lead & Cold Feet Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1978	Movie Deathsport 1000 years into the future, after the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastelands and isolated city-states....	Stunt Driver Crew	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1978	Movie Game of Death A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.	Stunt Driver Crew	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1977	Movie Smokey and the Bandit A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1976	Movie Bound for Glory A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1976	Movie Baby Blue Marine A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route,...	Stunts Crew	TMDB 5.2 / 10

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2010

The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'

2007

Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes

2007

Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles

2007

Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane

2006

Dialing Up "Cellular"

2004 / TMDB 9.0

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Known for

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2016)

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Final Destination 2 (2003)

Personal details

Credits

Latest Release

Body Count: The Deaths of "Final Destination"

The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'

Snakes on a Set: Behind the Scenes

Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles

Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane

Dialing Up "Cellular"

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