Ben Hernandez Bray
Known For: Acting
Biography
Ben Hernandez Bray is a film and television director who was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in one of the toughest San Fernando Valley neighborhoods. He's the oldest of six children, raised by his Mother and Grandmother and is of Mexican and Irish descent. In the late 1980's his boxing skills led him into the stunt industry where he then became one of the very few successful latino stuntmen in Hollywood and eventually becoming one of the top action stunt coordinators and second unit directors, working specifically with "Smoking Aces" Joe Carnahan and "Silver Linings Playbook" David O Russell. After twenty five plus years in the industry and over one hundred fifty film and tv credits, Mr Bray made his television directorial debut in 2015 with Katie Heigl's tv series "State of Affairs" for NBC/Universal, he then went on to direct episodes for Fox/Bruckheimer, CW/Greg Berlanti and ABC/Freeform. In 2018 will be Bray's feature film debut which he co-wrote with Joe Carnahan called "El Chicano" a Mexican Super hero story about two brothers growing up in East L.A. The story was inspired and originally written by Bray 10 years earlier after losing his youngest brother to gang violence. The film is being produced by War Party Productions and Lorenzo di Bonaventura.
Filmography
2024
- Tracker ... (Director)
2022
- The Lincoln Lawyer ... (Director)
2021
- Walker ... (Director)
2020
- 9-1-1: Lone Star ... (Director)
- Big Sky ... (Director)
2019
- Roswell, New Mexico ... (Director)
- El Chicano ... (Director)
- The Enemy Within ... (Director)
2018
- 9-1-1 ... (Director)
- A Star Is Born ... (Stunts)
2017
- S.W.A.T. ... (Director)
- Lowriders ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Keeping Hours ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2016
- Lucifer ... (Director)
- DC's Legends of Tomorrow ... (Director)
- Shadowhunters ... (Director)
- Queen of the South ... (Director)
2015
- Supergirl ... (Director)
- Joy ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Accidental Love ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Curve ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Woman in Gold ... (Stunts)
- McFarland, USA as Ernesto Valles
2014
- Ouija ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Gambler ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Stretch ... (Producer)
- Life After Beth ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- In the Blood ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Earth to Echo ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- State of Affairs as Sal Gomez
2013
- Channeling as Badger
- American Hustle ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Trust Me as Roland
- Out of the Furnace ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Evidence ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2012
- Arrow ... (Director)
- Savages as Cartel Heist Passenger
- Jack Reacher ... (Stunts)
- The Grey as Dwayne Hernandez
- Silver Linings Playbook ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Argo ... (Stunts)
- The Three Stooges ... (Stunts)
2011
- Real Steel as Ricky's Henchman (uncredited)
2010
- The Defenders as Guard (Jeff)
- The A-Team as Mexican Captor #1
- The Fighter ... (Fight Choreographer)
- Sympathy for Delicious ... (Stunts)
2009
- Crank: High Voltage ... (Stunts)
- Powder Blue as Security
2008
- Breaking Bad as Cartel Gunman #2
- Iron Man ... (Utility Stunts)
- Stiletto as Benny
- Lakeview Terrace ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- AmericanEast ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Ruins ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Columbus Day ... (Stunts)
2007
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ... (Stunts)
- No Country for Old Men ... (Stunts)
- Urban Justice ... (Stunts)
- The Hammer ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Transformers ... (Stunts)
- How to Rob a Bank ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Half Past Dead 2 ... (Stunts)
2006
- Smokin' Aces ... (Second Unit Director)
- Entity: Nine as Guard #1
- Unknown as Uzi Henchman
- Day Break as Train
- The Legend of Butch & Sundance ... (Stunts)
- Death Row ... (Stunts)
2005
- The Closer as Federale
- The Island ... (Stunts)
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as Dexter Goon
- Hostage ... (Stunts)
2004
- Funky Monkey ... (Stunts)
- I ♥ Huckabees as Davy
- The Alamo ... (Stunts)
2003
- Seabiscuit ... (Stunts)
- Cradle 2 the Grave ... (Stunts)
- The Rundown ... (Stunts)
- National Security as Detective
2002
- CSI: Miami as Danny Pilar
- Without a Trace as Motorcycle Guy
- The Shield as Santi
- She Spies as Digger
- Collateral Damage ... (Stunts)
- Ticker as Helicopter Gunman
2001
- Pearl Harbor ... (Stunts)
- Crazy/Beautiful ... (Stunts)
- Swordfish ... (Stunts)
- Radical Jack ... (Stunts)
- Double Take ... (Utility Stunts)
- Alias as Tchen
1999
- The Hurricane as Joey Giardello
- Three Kings ... (Stunts)
- Dark Nova ... (Stunts)
1998
- Phantoms ... (Stunts)
1997
- Gang Related ... (Stunts)
1996
- Courage Under Fire ... (Stunts)
1995
- The Prophecy ... (Stunts)
- My Family ... (Stunts)
1994
- Dead Connection
- Blue Tiger ... (Stunts)