
Brian Smyj
Crew
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.
Filmography (89)
- Gladiator (2000, ★ 8.2)
- The Departed (2006, ★ 8.2)
- A Beautiful Mind (2001, ★ 7.9)
- The Sopranos (1999, ★ 8.7)
- The Blacklist (2013, ★ 7.6)
- Third Watch (1999, ★ 7.9)
- A Man Called Otto (2022, ★ 7.8)
- Getting to Know You (1999, ★ 7.5)
- Twelve Monkeys (1995, ★ 7.6)
- The Dark Knight Rises (2012, ★ 7.8)
- I Origins (2014, ★ 7.6)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, ★ 8.1)
- John Wick (2014, ★ 7.5)
- Synecdoche, New York (2008, ★ 7.5)
- 16 Blocks (2006, ★ 6.5)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, ★ 7.4)
- Premium Rush (2012, ★ 6.3)
- Chosen (2001, ★ 6.3)
- Man on the Moon (1999, ★ 7.2)
- The Place Beyond the Pines (2013, ★ 7)
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999, ★ 6.6)
- Frequency (2000, ★ 7.3)
- Live Free or Die Hard (2007, ★ 6.6)
- Across the Universe (2007, ★ 7.1)
- The Housemaid (2025, ★ 7.2)
- Allegiance (2015, ★ 6.8)
- Begin Again (2014, ★ 7.2)
- Our Idiot Brother (2011, ★ 6.1)
- Carriers (2009, ★ 6.1)
- The Devil's Own (1997, ★ 6.2)