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Just want to inform the community of the passing of my old friend and fellow stuntman , John Ashker. He fought for many decades with brain cancer and finally succumbed to it last night. He was a...
Stunts: Minority Report. John Ashker was born on 28 December 1964 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Minority Report (2002), Torque (2004) and The Incredible Hulk (2008).
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Harry O'Connor was a Navy SEAL before he got into the stunt industry as a performer and skydiver, and was hired as Vin Diesel's stunt double on the set of xXx. While filming a paragliding scene in Prague, the 45-year-old collided with a pillar of the Palacky Bridge, breaking his neck. He died from his injuries. Director Rob Cohen later said: "We ha...
Famed stunt pilot Art Scholl died while filming footage for the Tom Cruise classic Top Gunin 1985. Scholl had been performing an upside-down spin in a camera-equipped aerobatic biplane when the Pitts S-2 plane plunged into the Pacific Ocean after Scholl was heard saying over the radio: "I have a problem; I have a real problem." Scholl's body and pl...
Stuntman A.J. Bakunas was determined to take back the record won from him by Dar Robinson (see below), by falling from the 22nd floor of a construction site for the 1979 movie Steel,on which he was playing George Kennedy's stunt double. Filming Kennedy's character's death, Bakunas successfully completed the jump, but the airbag beneath him ruptured...
In the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only, Roger Moore's 007 was pursued by Russian assassins, and skis down a bobsleigh track to avoid them. Stuntman Paolo Rigon, 23, was driving the bobsleigh, and was killed when he became trapped under the sleigh, which continued to drag him along. A week earlier in 1981, American bobsledder James Morgan was killed o...
Kun Liu, 25, was killed while performing on an inflatable boat on the Ognyanovo reservoir in Bulgaria. The stunt had involved an on-set explosion which went awry, resulting in Liu's death and another stunt actor, Nuo Sun, being seriously injured. Liu's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Millennium Films and the movie's stunt coordinator...
Back in 2000, veteran stuntman Chris Lamon died six days after an accident on the set of the Steven Seagal and DMX action film Exit Wounds. Lamon, 35, and another stuntman were set to jump out the back of a truck, which was being towed upside down along a street, when he hit his head. Lamon was diagnosed with a fractured skull, and died almost a we...
Joi Harris was the double for actress Zazie Beetz on Deadpool 2, and was performing her first stunt when she was killed in a motorcycle crash in 2017. Harris was killed when she was ejected from the bike she was riding and crashed through the plate glass window of a nearby building. A report from WorkSafeBC found that Foxhad "failed to conduct a ri...
While most films that suffered tragedies would like to distance themselves from fatalities, 1969 Burt Reynolds action film Shark!did the opposite. Originally called Caine, the film changed its name to Shark!after a stuntman was killed by a white shark during filming. Jose Marco, was attacked and killed on camera by a white shark that broke through ...
The crew of John Wu's 2000 film Red Cliffwere left distraught after one stuntman died and six crew members were injured after a fire stunt went out of control. During filming in Xiotang Shan on the outskirts of Beijing, a burning ship crashed into another for a stunt but high winds saw the fires grow out of control, with both ships becoming engulfe...
Veteran stuntman Dar Robinson was known for his death-defying leaps off buildings and from helicopters, and had never broken a bone in his career. But it was during a routine chase on the set of Million Dollar Mysterythat he was involved in a fatal motorcycle stunt. The 39-year-old had been driving a dirt bike around a sharp turn on U.S. Highway 89...
John Ashker is known as an Stunts, Stunt Driver, Actor, Stunt Coordinator, Utility Stunts, and Stunt Double. Some of his work includes Torque, The Little Rascals, Black Sheep, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Trespassing.
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John R. Ashker was a stunt performer in Batman Forever, Jonah Hex and Green Lantern.
John Ashker (stunt cordinator) takes a high fall while Carl Thibault, (David Mitchell/producer) hangs on for dear life. Also as Donald D'Amico, writer/director looks on (far left corner).
John Ashker. John R. Ashker portrayed Campbell in Blade: Trinity . He was a utility stunts performer in Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, a stunt driver in Blade: Trinity and a stunt double for Maximiliano Hernández in Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 .
