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)
- The Enemy Within ... (Director)
- El Chicano ... (Writer)
2018
- 9-1-1 ... (Director)
- A Star Is Born ... (Stunts)
2017
- S.W.A.T. ... (Director)
- The Keeping Hours ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Lowriders ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2016
- Lucifer ... (Director)
- DC's Legends of Tomorrow ... (Director)
- Shadowhunters ... (Director)
- Queen of the South ... (Director)
2015
- Supergirl ... (Director)
- Joy ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Woman in Gold ... (Stunts)
- McFarland, USA as Ernesto Valles
- Curve ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Accidental Love ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2014
- Ouija ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- In the Blood ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Gambler ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Stretch ... (Producer)
- Earth to Echo ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Life After Beth ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- State of Affairs as Sal Gomez
2013
- American Hustle ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Out of the Furnace ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Evidence ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Trust Me as Roland
- Channeling as Badger
2012
- Arrow ... (Director)
- Jack Reacher ... (Stunts)
- Silver Linings Playbook ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Argo ... (Stunts)
- The Grey as Dwayne Hernandez
- The Three Stooges ... (Stunts)
- Savages as Cartel Heist Passenger
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)
- The Ruins ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Lakeview Terrace ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Stiletto as Benny
- Columbus Day ... (Stunts)
- AmericanEast ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2007
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ... (Stunts)
- No Country for Old Men ... (Stunts)
- Transformers ... (Stunts)
- Urban Justice ... (Stunts)
- Half Past Dead 2 ... (Stunts)
- How to Rob a Bank ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Hammer ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2006
- Day Break as Train
- Smokin' Aces ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Unknown as Uzi Henchman
- Death Row ... (Stunts)
- The Legend of Butch & Sundance ... (Stunts)
- Entity: Nine as Guard #1
2005
- The Closer as Federale
- The Island ... (Stunts)
- Hostage ... (Stunts)
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as Dexter Goon
2004
- The Alamo ... (Stunts)
- I ♥ Huckabees as Davy
- Funky Monkey ... (Stunts)
2003
- The Rundown ... (Stunts)
- Cradle 2 the Grave ... (Stunts)
- Seabiscuit ... (Stunts)
- National Security as Detective
- National Lampoon's Gold Diggers ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Vegas Dick as Loan Shark
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)
- Alias as Tchen
- Swordfish ... (Stunts)
- Crazy/Beautiful ... (Stunts)
- Double Take ... (Utility Stunts)
- Radical Jack ... (Stunts)
1999
- Three Kings ... (Stunts)
- The Hurricane as Joey Giardello
- Dark Nova ... (Stunts)
1998
- Martial Law as Gang Guy
- Phantoms ... (Stunts)
1997
- Gang Related ... (Stunts)
1996
- Courage Under Fire ... (Stunts)
1995
- The Prophecy ... (Stunts)
- My Family ... (Stunts)
1994
- Blue Tiger ... (Stunts)
- Dead Connection