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.
Filmography (76)
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Expend4bles
The Adam Project
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Love and Monsters
Dark Phoenix
The Predator
24 Hours to Live
X-Men: Apocalypse
Fantastic Four
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Iron Man 3
This Means War
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Hangover Part II
X-Men: First Class
Knight and Day
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Surrogates
Whiteout
Eagle Eye
Hero Wanted
Live Free or Die Hard
Superman Returns
Night at the Museum
Fantastic Four
Taxi
X2
Paycheck
Minority Report
Signs
Windtalkers
Vanilla Sky
Unbreakable
Mission: Impossible II
Inspector Gadget
Blade
What Dreams May Come
Dead Man on Campus
Men in Black
Face/Off
The Relic
Broken Arrow
Barb Wire
Sudden Death
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Get Shorty
Casper
Congo
3 Ninjas Knuckle Up
Color of Night
The Flintstones
On Deadly Ground
Jurassic Park
Warlock: The Armageddon
Alive
Cyborg 2
The Sandlot
A Perfect World
Batman Returns
Poison Ivy
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
Back to the Future Part III
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Dead Pool
Messenger of Death
Death by Dialogue
Masters of the Universe
Ruthless People
F/X
The Protector
Exterminator 2
