Brian Smrz
Actor, Director
Brian Smrz (/smɜːrʃ/; born c. 1960), also Brian Delaney Smrz, is a Hollywood stunt coordinator and second unit director of projects such as Mission: Impossible 2, Live Free or Die Hard, Taxi, Eagle Eye, Night at the Museum, Windtalkers, Iron Man 3, and Superman Returns, among others. He is also the director of Hero Wanted, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ray Liotta, and of 24 Hours to Live, starring Ethan Hawke and Xu Qing. He won the Taurus Award twice and was nominated for a third time.
Smrz has worked as a stunt performer and stunt coordinator on Hollywood films since 1981. In more recent years, he has acted as second unit director and director on projects such as Hero Wanted, Fantastic Four, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Predator, and Face/Off. He has worked on several of director John Woo's American films, including Windtalkers, Pay cheque, and Mission: Impossible 2.
Smrz shared a Taurus Award for stunt work on Mission: Impossible 2 and Live Free or Die Hard. He was also nominated for Taxi. In an otherwise negative review of Taxi, Variety praised Smrz's stunts.
Hero Wanted is his directorial debut. It is a crime drama/action film starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ray Liotta, and Norman Reedus. Shooting occurred in Sofia and Bulgaria with a crew composed mostly of Bulgarians.
Smrz is from Strafford, Pennsylvania, and was the brother of the stuntman Brett Smrz, who died while performing a stunt jump off a building. Smrz was hospitalised after a stunt went wrong in 1992 on Cyborg 2. The incident was investigated by the Screen Actors Guild.
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Smrz has worked as a stunt performer and stunt coordinator on Hollywood films since 1981. In more recent years, he has acted as second unit director and director on projects such as Hero Wanted, Fantastic Four, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Predator, and Face/Off. He has worked on several of director John Woo's American films, including Windtalkers, Pay cheque, and Mission: Impossible 2.
Smrz shared a Taurus Award for stunt work on Mission: Impossible 2 and Live Free or Die Hard. He was also nominated for Taxi. In an otherwise negative review of Taxi, Variety praised Smrz's stunts.
Hero Wanted is his directorial debut. It is a crime drama/action film starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ray Liotta, and Norman Reedus. Shooting occurred in Sofia and Bulgaria with a crew composed mostly of Bulgarians.
Smrz is from Strafford, Pennsylvania, and was the brother of the stuntman Brett Smrz, who died while performing a stunt jump off a building. Smrz was hospitalised after a stunt went wrong in 1992 on Cyborg 2. The incident was investigated by the Screen Actors Guild.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Smrz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
| 1995 | Sudden Death · as Thug |
| 1995 | 3 Ninjas: Knuckle Up · as Thug Catching Cactus At Indian Ceremony |
| 1993 | Jurassic Park · as Driver Of Grant, Sattler & Malcolm's Jeep |
| 1992 | |
| 1990 | Contra Conspiracy · as Eddie |
| 1987 | Houston Knights · as Granger Devlin |
| 1981 | They All Laughed · as (uncredited) |
| 2017 | 24 Hours to LiveEn Plex |
| 2008 |
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse Unearthed · as Self |
| 1994 | The Making of 'Speed' · as Self |
| 2023 | Expend4bles · as Second Unit Director |
| 2023 | Shazam! Fury of the Gods · as Second Unit Director |
| 2022 | The Adam Project · as Second Unit Director |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife · as Second Unit Director |
| 2021 | Venom: Let There Be Carnage · as Second Unit Director |
| 2020 | Love and Monsters · as Second Unit Director |
| 2019 | X-Men: Dark Phoenix · as Second Unit Director |
| 2018 | The Predator · as Second Unit Director |
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse · as Second Unit Director |
| 2015 | Fantastic Four · as Second Unit Director |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past · as Second Unit Director |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 · as Second Unit Director |
| 2012 | This Means War · as Second Unit Director |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes · as Second Unit Director |
| 2011 | X-Men: First Class · as Second Unit Director |
| 2011 | The Hangover Part II · as Second Unit Director |
| 2010 | Knight and Day · as Second Unit Director |
| 2009 | Surrogates · as Second Unit Director |
| 2009 | Whiteout · as Second Unit Director |
| 2009 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine · as Second Unit Director |
| 2008 | Eagle Eye · as Second Unit Director |
| 2007 | Live Free or Die Hard · as Second Unit Director |
| 2006 | Night at the Museum · as Second Unit Director |
| 2006 | Superman Returns · as Second Unit Director |
| 2005 | Fantastic Four · as Second Unit Director |
| 2004 | Taxi · as Second Unit Director |
| 2003 | Paycheck · as Second Unit Director |
| 2003 | X2: X-Men United · as Second Unit Director |
| 2002 | Minority Report · as Second Unit Director |
| 2002 | Windtalkers · as Second Unit DirectorEn Plex |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible II · as Second Unit Director |
| 1990 | Contra Conspiracy · as Second Unit Director |