Brian Smrz
Known For: Crew
Biography
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
2023
- Expend4bles ... (Second Unit Director)
- Shazam! Fury of the Gods ... (Second Unit Director)
2022
- The Adam Project ... (Second Unit Director)
2021
- Venom: Let There Be Carnage ... (Second Unit Director)
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife ... (Second Unit Director)
2020
- Love and Monsters ... (Second Unit Director)
2019
- Dark Phoenix ... (Second Unit Director)
2018
- The Predator ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2017
- 24 Hours to Live ... (Director)
2016
- X-Men: Apocalypse ... (Second Unit Director)
2015
- Fantastic Four ... (Second Unit Director)
2014
- X-Men: Days of Future Past ... (Second Unit Director)
2013
- Iron Man 3 ... (Second Unit Director)
2012
- This Means War ... (Second Unit Director)
2011
- The Hangover Part II ... (Second Unit Director)
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes ... (Second Unit Director)
- X-Men: First Class ... (Second Unit Director)
2010
- Knight and Day ... (Second Unit Director)
2009
- Surrogates ... (Second Unit Director)
- Whiteout ... (Second Unit Director)
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine ... (Second Unit Director)
2008
- Eagle Eye ... (Second Unit Director)
- Hero Wanted ... (Director)
2007
- Live Free or Die Hard ... (Second Unit Director)
- The Light and the Dark: The Making of 'Face/Off' as Self
2006
- Night at the Museum ... (Second Unit Director)
- Superman Returns ... (Second Unit Director)
2005
- Fantastic Four ... (Second Unit Director)
2004
- Taxi ... (Second Unit Director)
2002
- Minority Report ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Signs ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Windtalkers ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2001
- Vanilla Sky ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2000
- Mission: Impossible II ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Unbreakable ... (Stunts)
1999
- Inspector Gadget ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1998
- Blade ... (Stunts)
- What Dreams May Come ... (Stunts)
- Dead Man on Campus ... (Stunts)
1997
- Men in Black ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Face/Off ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Relic ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1996
- Broken Arrow ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Barb Wire ... (Stunts)
1995
- Casper ... (Stunts)
- Get Shorty ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Congo ... (Stunts)
- Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight ... (Stunts)
- 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up ... (Stunts)
- Sudden Death as Thug
1994
- Color of Night ... (Stunts)
- The Flintstones ... (Stunts)
- On Deadly Ground ... (Stunts)
1993
- Jurassic Park ... (Stunts)
- The Sandlot ... (Stunts)
- Alive ... (Stunts)
- A Perfect World ... (Stunts)
- Cyborg 2 ... (Stunts)
- Warlock: The Armageddon ... (Stunts)
1992
- Batman Returns ... (Stunts)
- HBO First Look
- Poison Ivy ... (Stunts)
1991
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze ... (Stunts)
- Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time ... (Stunts)
- Sorority Girls and the Creature from Hell ... (Stunts)
1990
- Back to the Future Part III ... (Stunts)
- Syngenor ... (Stunts)
- Street Asylum ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Contra Conspiracy ... (Second Unit Director)
- Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection ... (Stunts)
- The Haunting of Morella ... (Stunts)
1989
- Second Sight ... (Stunts)
- Time Trackers ... (Stunts)
1988
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit ... (Stunts)
- Twice Dead ... (Stunts)
- The Dead Pool ... (Stunts)
- Beach Balls ... (Stunts)
- Off Limits ... (Stunts)
- Messenger of Death ... (Stunts)
- Side Roads ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Death by Dialogue ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Killing Game ... (Stunts)
- Deadly Stranger ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1987
- Masters of the Universe ... (Stunts)
- Big Bad Mama II ... (Stunts)
1986
- F/X ... (Stunts)
- Quiet Cool ... (Stunts)
- Ruthless People ... (Stunts)
1985
- The Protector ... (Stunts)
- Key Exchange ... (Stunts)
- Grace Quigley ... (Stunt Driver)
1984
- Exterminator 2 ... (Stunts)
1981
- Taps ... (Stunts)