Brian Smrz

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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.

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DepartmentJobMovie / TV ShowGenresReleaseRating
CrewStunt CoordinatorLive Free or Die Hard66% · 5,848
Taxi56% · 1,059
Windtalkers63% · 1,278
Mission: Impossible II61% · 6,783
Men in Black72% · 13,825
Face/Off70% · 5,347
StuntsBack to the Future Part III75% · 10,590
DirectingSecond Unit DirectorShazam! Fury of the Gods65% · 3,184
Ghostbusters: Afterlife74% · 4,670
Dark Phoenix60% · 6,570
X-Men: Apocalypse65% · 13,025
X-Men: Days of Future Past75% · 15,372
Iron Man 369% · 22,278
Rise of the Planet of the Apes73% · 11,956
X-Men: First Class73% · 12,794
Knight and Day62% · 4,487
Whiteout56% · 760
Eagle Eye65% · 2,853
Live Free or Die Hard66% · 5,848
Night at the Museum66% · 10,255
Taxi56% · 1,059
X270% · 10,168
Windtalkers63% · 1,278
Mission: Impossible II61% · 6,783
All credits on TMDb.org.