Craig R. Baxley
出生 : 1949-10-20, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
略歴
Craig Redding Baxley is an American actor, director and stunt performer. He is best known for his work in the action and thriller genres.
Beginning his career as a stunt performer, he was hired to perform stunts in number of notable television series namely Police Story, Harry O, Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, Gemini Man, Roots, M*A*S*H, The Dukes of Hazzard and The A-Team (his head directorial debut). He also worked as a stunt coordinator and second unit director on the feature films The Warriors (1979), The Long Riders (1980), Reds (1981) and Predator (1987).
Baxley also appeared in four episodes of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, as well having small roles in Chase, Mannix, Bearcats!, Marcus Welby, M.D. and S.W.A.T.
In 1987, he made his feature film directorial debut with Action Jackson. His other feature film credits are I Come in Peace (1991), Stone Cold (1991) and Sniper 2 (2002).
Baxley's other television directing credits include miniseries based on Stephen King works namely Storm of the Century (1999), Rose Red (2002), The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003), Kingdom Hospital (2004), as well as The Triangle (2005) and The Lost Room (2006). Some of his television film credits include A Family Torn Apart (1993), Twisted Desire (1996) and Silencing Mary (1998) both starring Melissa Joan Hart.
Himself
Story of Al Leong, the greatest henchman in film history.
Self
Don Siegel’s classic crime thriller CHARLEY VARRICK, made in 1972 in the wake of the immensely successful DIRTY HARRY, stars Walter Matthau in what is probably the actor’s finest dramatic role, airshow pilot turned crop duster turned bank robber turned mob target Charley Varrick. This feature-length documentary takes the viewer back to the time of the shooting of this cult item and features original interviews with Siegel’s son, Kristoffer Tabori, actors Andy Robinson and Jacqueline Scott, stunt driver and actor Craig R. Baxley, composer Lalo Schifrin, and Howard A. Rodman, whose father co-wrote the screenplay. LAST OF THE INDEPENDENTS, directed by Robert Fischer, was shot in August 2014 in Los Angeles.
Director
Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an elderly rancher and an accomplished, but retired, gunslinger.
Self
Making of 'The Lost Room'
Director
A year and a half ago the world was hit with the biggest catastrophe it had ever seen. Without warning and without explanation, hundreds of millions of people simply vanished off the face of the earth. The world was in chaos like it had never been before. Yet somehow one man seemed to rise to the challenge. One man had the strength and conviction to unite a shattered world. One man gave the world hope. That man was NICOLAE CARPATHIA. He now rules the entire world.
Director
Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died.
Director
Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious mansion as a wedding gift from her new husband...
Director
伝説の狙撃手とされる元海兵隊員ベケットは今や軍を退き、狩猟者相手のガイドとして生計を立てていた。そんな彼の前に軍の情報士官やCIAが現われ、ある任務を依頼してくる。彼らの情報によるとバルカン半島のある国で、イスラム教徒の抹殺作戦が進行中だという。ベケットに課せられた任務とは、民族浄化計画の首謀者ヴァルストリア将軍の暗殺だった。ベケットは、除隊前の階級を復活させることを条件に任務を引き受ける。
Director
A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.
Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 1987 classic Predator.
Director
Hands-on healer Dean Kraft struggles for many years to come to terms with his abilities and deal with the skepticism of the medical profession.
Director
In this sequel to the made-for-TV sci-fi thriller Chameleon, Bobbie Phillips returns as Kam, a beautiful but deadly (and genetically altered) government agent who is called into action when a criminal genius stages a daring raid, taking the clientele of an exclusive casino hostage.
Director
Frustrated that school officials and police won't punish her university's star football player for raping her roommate, student reporter Mary begins working on an article about the crime for the newspaper. But she faces violence and threats as a result.
Director
The heat is at record highs, the air conditioner is broken, the milk has gone bad, the repairman can't find the house... and then there's the neighbor. Lyle Wilder, a celebrated firefighter, whose scorn for the young Braverton family next door turns to outright assault as his heroic exterior begins to unravel from the inside.
Director
Raven is a ninja, a former member of the Black Dragons clan and also a former Special Forces agent, living in Hawaii, helping those in trouble and searching for his long-lost son while avoiding assassins sent to kill him.
Writer
A teenage girl convinces a young, love-struck ex-con that the only way they can be together is to do away with her domineering parents.
Director
A teenage girl convinces a young, love-struck ex-con that the only way they can be together is to do away with her domineering parents.
Director
Jordan Cooper, a professor in Durham, has everything going for him. A beautiful girlfriend named Kathy, a good job and a nice place to live. But when he goes for his annual check up, things go wrong. Someone is tampering with his computer files and all his tests are bad. He is admitted to the hospital and dragged off to the county hospital late that night for a brain operation that he does not need. His electronic records are changing. He gets cable he did not order and then his girlfriend is murdered in his car. Someone is trying to ruin the life of Cooper, and he has to find out who and why before the police catch up to him.
Director
Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involving assassination and land speculation.
Director
Thriller about an advertising executive Kelley who leads a double life, looking for men in dive bars at night. However, when she goes missing, it causes her best friend Ticotin to turn detective and infiltrate the seedy underworld to discover what happened.
Director
After a young girl is accidently infected with an alien substance known as "Deep Red", the astonishing results attract the attention of the illustrious scientist Dr. Newmeyer. Disillusioned security expert Joe Keyes must team up with his estranged wife to protect the girl and her mother from the obsessed scientist who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Director
A teenage boy finds his mother and father murdered in their home but as the story goes on he reveals he knows more than he is letting on.
Director
At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to search a job. While changing a tire on the highway, he's killed by a passing truck. The police believes it's been an accident, but Claude doesn't accept this and frantically searches for a yellow truck and it's crazy driver at all truck stations.
Director
Joe Huff (Brian Bosworth) is a tough, loner cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Joe into an undercover operation that entails infiltrating "The Brotherhood" - a powerful Mississippi biker gang linked in the murder of government officials as well as dealing drugs with the mafia.
Director
Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...
Director
Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.
Second Unit Director
南米某国で行方を絶った重要人物奪還のためにジャングルに潜入する特殊コマンド部隊。だがゲリラを掃討した彼らを待ち受けていたのは宇宙から飛来した肉食異星人プレデターだった。体を透明化させて周囲の風景に溶け込み、どこからともなく牙を向くプレデターに隊員たちは次々に倒されていく。仲間を全て失った隊長シェイファーは、姿なき敵が熱に反応して攻撃してくる事を突き止め、ついに一対一の闘いを挑む。
Stunt Coordinator
南米某国で行方を絶った重要人物奪還のためにジャングルに潜入する特殊コマンド部隊。だがゲリラを掃討した彼らを待ち受けていたのは宇宙から飛来した肉食異星人プレデターだった。体を透明化させて周囲の風景に溶け込み、どこからともなく牙を向くプレデターに隊員たちは次々に倒されていく。仲間を全て失った隊長シェイファーは、姿なき敵が熱に反応して攻撃してくる事を突き止め、ついに一対一の闘いを挑む。
Second Unit Director
In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.
Stunt Driver
Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the sheriff doesn't take kindly to losing his extra income...
Stunt Coordinator
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Stunts
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.
Second Unit Director
Michael Stone is a rising company executive who decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team and partake in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.
Stunt Coordinator
A young woman with precognition realizes she is being stalked by a killer -- a mass murderer she previously had used her psychic powers to identify to the skeptical police.
Bobby
A young woman with precognition realizes she is being stalked by a killer -- a mass murderer she previously had used her psychic powers to identify to the skeptical police.
Stunt Coordinator
A determined TV reporter is out to find a maniac who is methodically attacking lone women drivers on the Los Angeles Freeway by pushing them off the road with his powerful van.
Stunts
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.
Stunt Driver
Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their younger ones, Freddy & Margaret Jean, in a Los Angeles foster home. Infuriated by this, Rosebud talks Joseph T. into running away with her so that they can break their younger siblings out of the system, which sparks a manhunt, and an outburst of sympathy among kids everywhere.
Stunt Driver
ある日、ラコーム率いる調査団がメキシコの砂漠で第二次大戦時の戦闘機を発見する。それは、消失当時と変わらぬ姿で残っていた。一方アメリカのインディアナ州では、町一帯の停電を調べていた電気技師ロイがUFOのような光を発見。以来、彼はこの不思議な光にすっかり魅了され、その正体を探っていく。やがて、光が行き着く先はワイオミング州のデビルズ・タワーという山だと判明するのだが…。
Staff Sgt. Rolf Anderson
The second of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Demon In Lace (about a succubus who murders young men to maintain her immortality) and Legacy of Terror (about an Aztec cult that seeks to resurrect their god by murdering physically perfect people) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
Stunts
Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.
Stunts
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
Stunt Coordinator
A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.
Second Unit
A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.
Stunts
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.
Young Driver
A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nearby mansion with his sister. The girl soon begins to suspect that the mansion is home to some very strange goings-on.
Stunt Driver
Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a drug ring. This film is based on Dorothy Uhnak's crime-thriller novel, The Ledger.
Van Sickle
「ダーティハリー」のドン・シーゲル監督が、名優ウォルター・マッソー主演で描く犯罪アクション。
ニューメキシコの小さな村で農薬散布の仕事をしている、しがない中年男チャーリーが銀行強盗を計画した。彼は若い男を仲間に引き込み、まんまと大金をものにする。だが、その金はマフィアの隠し金だったのだ。警察とマフィアの両方から追われるチャーリーは、巧みに身をかわしていくが、彼の背後には殺し屋モリーが迫っていた。
Stunts
コーネリアスの語ったとおり、疫病により犬や猫は死滅し、猿が第一位のペットとなった。1991年、日々深まるサルたちの奴隷としての扱い、コーネリアスの息子シーザーの養父も同然だった人間アルマンドの死をきっかけに、シーザーは反乱を決意。高度の知能とテレパシーを武器に猿たちのリーダーとなり、ついに反乱を起こす。
Stunts
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
