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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Brian Smyj

Biography:

Brian Smyj (pronounced Smy) is a highly trained Stunt Coordinator and Stunt man with over 20 years in the business. From Gladiator (2000) to The Pink Panther (2006) he's crashed and burned his way across the big screen time and time again. When he's not launching someone off a building or lighting them on fire, he's designing and fabricating one-of-a-kind rigs, machines, and safety systems to make his stunts the best and safest in the business. Brian is one of the most creative, accomplished stunt rigger in the United States. Brian knows how to flex the rules of physics to defy the laws of gravity.

Known For

Acting

2015

Allegiance as SVR Assassin

2013

The Place Beyond the Pines as Officer Jefferson
The Blacklist as Mover

2012

Premium Rush as Cab Driver (uncredited)

2007

The Bourne Ultimatum as Agent (uncredited)
Live Free or Die Hard as Police Officer (uncredited)

2006

16 Blocks as Sniper (uncredited)
The Departed as Man Glassed in Bar

2003

2001

Chosen as Shadow
A Beautiful Mind as Army Soldier (uncredited)

2000

Gladiator as Coliseum Gladiator (uncredited)
Frequency as Con Ed Worker #2

1999

Man on the Moon as Letterman Security (uncredited)
Bringing Out the Dead as Cop #2 (uncredited)
The Sopranos as Agent Smyj
Third Watch as Tow Truck

Crew

2022

If I Was His Mother as Stunt Coordinator

2021

2020

On the Rocks as Stunt Coordinator

2019

21 Bridges as Stunts

2018

Life Itself as Stunt Coordinator
Life Itself as Utility Stunts

2015

Ted 2 as Stunt Coordinator
Puerto Ricans in Paris as Stunt Coordinator

2014

The Cobbler as Stunt Coordinator
The Cobbler as Stunts
Begin Again as Stunt Coordinator
Sex Tape as Stunt Coordinator
I Origins as Stunt Coordinator
John Wick as Stunts

2013

Europa Report as Stunt Coordinator
The Heat as Stunts
Delivery Man as Stunts
Dead Man Down as Stunt Coordinator
The Place Beyond the Pines as Stunt Coordinator

2012

Safe as Stunts

2011

Our Idiot Brother as Stunt Coordinator
The Oranges as Stunt Coordinator
Zookeeper as Stunts
The Sitter as Stunt Driver

2010

Date Night as Stunts
All Good Things as Stunt Coordinator

2009

Carriers as Stunt Coordinator
Sorority Row as Stunt Coordinator

2008

Ghost Town as Stunts
Synecdoche, New York as Stunt Coordinator

2006

Freedomland as Stunts
Friends with Money as Stunt Coordinator
The Ex as Stunt Coordinator

2004

Taxi as Utility Stunts
Taxi as Stunt Driver

2002

Analyze That as Stunts

2001

Hannibal as Stunts
Down as Stunts
Pootie Tang as Stunts

2000

Frequency as Stunts
Once in the Life as Stunt Coordinator
Gladiator as Stunts

1999

Man on the Moon as Stunts
Arlington Road as Stunts
Getting to Know You as Stunt Coordinator
Outside Providence as Stunt Coordinator
Superstar as Stunt Coordinator
The Corruptor as Stunts
New Rose Hotel as Stunt Coordinator
Gloria as Stunts

1998

Running Woman as Stunts
Claire Dolan as Stunt Driver
54 as Stunt Coordinator
The Substitute 2: School's Out as Stunt Coordinator
U.S. Marshals as Stunts

1997

The Devil's Own as Stunts
The Peacemaker as Stunts

1996

The Juror as Stunts
The Assassination File as Stunt Coordinator

1995

Twelve Monkeys as Stunts
Kiss of Death as Stunts

1994

The Cowboy Way as Stunts
True Lies as Stunts