Brian Smrz

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.

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1995

Sudden Death

2007

The Light and the Dark: The Making of 'Face/Off'

2023

HBO First Look

2000

Mission: Impossible II

2013

Iron Man 3

2008

Hero Wanted

1994

The Flintstones

1996

Broken Arrow

1990

Back to the Future Part III

1995

Casper

1988

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1998

What Dreams May Come

2020

Love and Monsters

2000

Unbreakable

2007

Live Free or Die Hard

2011

X-Men: First Class

2011

The Hangover Part II

1995

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

2021

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

1998

Dead Man on Campus

1997

Face/Off

2002

Windtalkers

2001

Vanilla Sky

2002

Minority Report

1995

3 Ninjas Knuckle Up

1986

Ruthless People

1996

Barb Wire

1997

The Relic

2017

24 Hours to Live

1997

Men in Black

1993

The Sandlot

2004

Taxi

1994

Color of Night

1988

Messenger of Death

1991

Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time

2009

Surrogates

2022

The Adam Project

NaN

Akira

2015

Fantastic Four

2002

Minority Report

1990

Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection

2021

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

1994

On Deadly Ground

2023

Expend4bles

2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

1988

The Dead Pool

1985

Key Exchange

1998

Blade

1990

Syngenor

1990

Contra Conspiracy

1995

Congo

1991

Sorority Girls and the Creature from Hell

1986

F/X

2018

The Predator

1991

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

1988

Death by Dialogue

2018

The Predator

2022

The Adam Project

2007

Live Free or Die Hard

2002

Windtalkers

1993

Cyborg 2

1990

Street Asylum

2023

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

2012

This Means War

1992

Batman Returns

1990

The Haunting of Morella

1988

Off Limits

1985

Grace Quigley

1981

Taps

1986

Quiet Cool

2009

Whiteout

2006

Superman Returns

1990

Contra Conspiracy

2014

X-Men: Days of Future Past

2003

X2

1988

Deadly Stranger

1993

Warlock: The Armageddon

1988

Side Roads

2016

X-Men: Apocalypse

2011

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

1992

Poison Ivy

1989

Time Trackers

1988

Twice Dead

1989

Second Sight

2002

Signs

1993

Alive

1985

The Protector

1984

Exterminator 2

2010

Knight and Day

2008

Eagle Eye

2000

Mission: Impossible II

1993

A Perfect World

1988

The Killing Game

1995

Get Shorty

2003

Paycheck

2005

Fantastic Four

2019

Dark Phoenix

1999

Inspector Gadget

1993

Jurassic Park

2004

Taxi

1995

Sudden Death

2009

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

1987

Big Bad Mama II

2006

Night at the Museum

1988

Beach Balls

1987

Masters of the Universe

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