Brian Smrz
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Smrz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Mission: Impossible II
(Stunt Coordinator)
Iron Man 3
(Second Unit Director)
Hero Wanted
(Director)
The Flintstones
(Stunts)
Broken Arrow
(Stunt Coordinator)
Back to the Future Part III
(Stunts)
Casper
(Stunts)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
(Stunts)
What Dreams May Come
(Stunts)
Love and Monsters
(Second Unit Director)
Unbreakable
(Stunts)
Live Free or Die Hard
(Second Unit Director)
X-Men: First Class
(Second Unit Director)
The Hangover Part II
(Second Unit Director)
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
(Stunts)
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
(Second Unit Director)
Dead Man on Campus
(Stunts)
Face/Off
(Stunt Coordinator)
Windtalkers
(Stunt Coordinator)
Vanilla Sky
(Stunt Coordinator)
Minority Report
(Stunt Coordinator)
3 Ninjas Knuckle Up
(Stunts)
Ruthless People
(Stunts)
Barb Wire
(Stunts)
The Relic
(Stunt Coordinator)
24 Hours to Live
(Director)
Men in Black
(Stunt Coordinator)
The Sandlot
(Stunts)
Taxi
(Second Unit Director)
Color of Night
(Stunts)
Messenger of Death
(Stunts)
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
(Stunts)
Surrogates
(Second Unit Director)
Whiteout
(Second Unit Director)
Batman Returns
(Stunts)
Syngenor
(Stunts)
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
(Second Unit Director)
This Means War
(Second Unit Director)
Expend4bles
(Second Unit Director)
Street Asylum
(Stunt Coordinator)
Second Sight
(Stunts)
Knight and Day
(Second Unit Director)
Blade
(Stunts)
The Dead Pool
(Stunts)
The Killing Game
(Stunts)
X-Men: Apocalypse
(Second Unit Director)
Sorority Girls and the Creature from Hell
(Stunts)
Congo
(Stunts)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
(Second Unit Director)
X-Men: Days of Future Past
(Second Unit Director)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(Second Unit Director)
The Adam Project
(Second Unit Director)
Superman Returns
(Second Unit Director)
Contra Conspiracy
(Stunt Coordinator)
Contra Conspiracy
(Second Unit Director)
On Deadly Ground
(Stunts)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
(Second Unit Director)
X2
(Second Unit Director)
Alive
(Stunts)
Poison Ivy
(Stunts)
The Predator
(Second Unit Director)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
(Stunts)
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
(Stunts)
Eagle Eye
(Second Unit Director)
Windtalkers
(Second Unit Director)
Mission: Impossible II
(Second Unit Director)
Live Free or Die Hard
(Stunt Coordinator)
Fantastic Four
(Second Unit Director)
Minority Report
(Second Unit Director)
Warlock: The Armageddon
(Stunts)
The Haunting of Morella
(Stunts)
Time Trackers
(Stunts)
F/X
(Stunts)
Quiet Cool
(Stunts)
The Predator
(Stunt Coordinator)
The Adam Project
(Stunt Coordinator)
Signs
(Stunt Coordinator)
Cyborg 2
(Stunts)
A Perfect World
(Stunts)
Death by Dialogue
(Stunt Coordinator)
Key Exchange
(Stunts)
Off Limits
(Stunts)
Deadly Stranger
(Stunt Coordinator)
Twice Dead
(Stunts)
The Protector
(Stunts)
Grace Quigley
(Stunt Driver)
Taps
(Stunts)
Exterminator 2
(Stunts)
Side Roads
(Stunt Coordinator)
Get Shorty
(Stunt Coordinator)
Paycheck
(Second Unit Director)
Fantastic Four
(Second Unit Director)
Dark Phoenix
(Second Unit Director)
Inspector Gadget
(Stunt Coordinator)
Jurassic Park
(Stunts)
Taxi
(Stunt Coordinator)
Sudden Death
(Stunt Coordinator)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(Stunts)
Big Bad Mama II
(Stunts)
Night at the Museum
(Second Unit Director)
Beach Balls
(Stunts)
Masters of the Universe
(Stunts)