Doug R. Coleman

Douglas R. Coleman (born 1958) is an American stuntman, film director, second unit director, and magician. As a stunt coordinator and 2nd unit director, he has worked with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Clint Eastwood, Michael Mann, and Christopher Nolan.

Life and career

Coleman began his career in stunts in 1983 on TV's The A-Team and The Dukes of Hazzard. In 1996, while doubling for Vincent Perez in The Crow: City of Angels (of which he was also serving as second unit director), Coleman suffered multiple serious injuries in a 23-story fall that nearly ended his career. He was performing a stunt in a harness meant to simulate a fall before it broke, called a descender.

In 2018, Coleman received an Emmy nomination for his work on the HBO television series Westworld.

Among the films he's served as second unit director on include Four Brothers, Analyze That, Punisher: War Zone, The Love Guru, Max, Blades of Glory, Winter's Tale, The Longest Yard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, The Karate Kid, Get Smart, Run All Night, and Star Trek: Nemesis.

He is married to fellow stunt performer Eliza Coleman, with whom he has two children, including stuntwoman Whitney Coleman. He is also a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Blue Ribbon committee of the Taurus World Stunt Awards' Blue Ribbon committee.

Filmography

Year	Title	Stunts	Second unit director	Director
1987	The Predator	Yes	No	John McTiernan
	RoboCop	Yes	No	Paul Verhoeven
1988	Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers	Yes	No	Dwight H. Little
1990	Total Recall	Yes	No	Paul Verhoeven
1991	Cape Fear	Yes	No	Martin Scorsese
	Air America	Yes	No	Roger Spottiswoode
	Dream Machine	No	Yes	Lyman Dayton
1993	The Seventh Coin	Yes	Yes	Dror Soref
	Super Mario Bros	Yes	No	Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel
	A Bronx Tale	Yes	No	Robert De Niro
1994	Beverly Hills Cop III	Yes	No	John Landis
1995	Batman Forever	Yes	No	Joel Schumacher
	Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest	Yes	No	James D. R. Hickox
	Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls	Yes	No	Steve Oedekerk
	Casino	Yes	No	Martin Scorsese
	Heat	Yes	No	Michael Mann
1996	The Crow: City of Angels	Yes	Yes	Tim Pope
1999	Ride with the Devil	Yes	No	Ang Lee
2000	Next Friday	Yes	No	Steve Carr
	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	Yes	Yes	Des McAnuff
	Lost Souls	Yes	Yes	Janusz Kamiński
	Cast Away	Yes	No	Robert Zemeckis
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Yes	No	Steven Spielberg
2002	Road to Perdition	Yes	Yes	Sam Mendes
	Analyze That	Yes	Yes	Harold Ramis
	Star Trek Nemesis	Yes	Yes	Stuart Baird
2003	The Italian Job	Yes	No	F. Gary Gray
	Hollywood Homicide	Yes	No	Ron Shelton
	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Yes	No	Gore Verbinski
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Yes	No	Peter Weir
	The Haunted Mansion	Yes	Yes	Rob Minkoff
2004	The Terminal	Yes	No	Steven Spielberg
	Spider-Man 2	Yes	No	Sam Raimi
	The Manchurian Candidate	Yes	Yes	Jonathan Demme
	Surviving Christmas	Yes	Yes	Mike Mitchell
	The Aviator	Yes	No	Martin Scorsese
	Meet the Fockers	Yes	Yes	Jay Roach
	A Series of Unfortunate Events	Yes	No	Brad Silberling
2005	The Longest Yard	Yes	Yes	Peter Segal
	Bewitched	Yes	Yes	Nora Ephron
	The Island	Yes	No	Michael Bay
	Walk the Line	Yes	No	James Mangold
	Elizabethtown	Yes	No	Cameron Crowe
	Four Brothers	No	Yes	John Singleton
2006	Poseidon	Yes	Yes	Wolfgang Petersen
	World Trade Center	Yes	No	Oliver Stone
	Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny	Yes	No	Liam Lynch
	Smokin' Aces	Yes	No	Joe Carnahan
2007	Blades of Glory	Yes	Yes	Will Speck and Josh Gordon
	I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry	Yes	Yes	Dennis Dugan
2008	Stop-Loss	Yes	Yes	Kimberly Peirce
	Get Smart	Yes	Yes	Peter Segal
	The Love Guru	Yes	Yes	Marco Schnabel
	Punisher: War Zone	Yes	Yes	Lexi Alexander
	The Day the Earth Stood Still	No	Yes	Scott Derrickson
2009	State of Play	Yes	Yes	Kevin MacDonald
2010	The Bounty Hunter	No	Yes	Andy Tennant
	Killers	Yes	Yes	Robert Luketic
	Due Date	Yes	No	Todd Phillips
	Gulliver's Travels	Yes	No	Rob Letterman
	The Karate Kid	No	Yes	Harald Zwart
2011	Captain America: The First Avenger	No	Yes	Joe Johnston
	Horrible Bosses	Yes	No	Seth Gordon
	The Muppets	Yes	No	James Bobin
	Hugo	Yes	No	Martin Scorsese
2012	Men in Black 3	Yes	Yes	Barry Sonnenfeld
	John Carter	Yes	No	Andrew Stanton
	The Dictator	Yes	No	Larry Charles
	The Dark Knight Rises	Yes	No	Christopher Nolan
2013	Gangster Squad	Yes	No	Ruben Fleischer
	Star Trek: Into Darkness	Yes	No	J.J. Abrams
	The Face of Love	Yes	Yes	Arie Posin
2014	Winter's Tale	Yes	Yes	Akiva Goldsman
2015	Run All Night	Yes	Yes	Jaume Collet-Serra
	Mad Max: Fury Road	Yes	No	George Miller
	Max	Yes	Yes	Boaz Yakin
	The Revenant	Yes	No	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2016	Captain America: Civil War	Yes	No	Anthony and Joe Russo
	Sully	Yes	No	Clint Eastwood
2017	Hostiles	Yes	Yes	Scott Cooper
	CHiPs	Yes	No	Dax Shepard
2018	Fifty Shades Freed	Yes	Yes	James Foley
	Sicario: Day of the Soldado	Yes	Yes	Stefano Sollima
	The Mule	Yes	No	Clint Eastwood
2019	Ford v Ferrari	Yes	No	James Mangold
	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Yes	No	Marielle Heller
	El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie	Yes	No	Vince Gilligan
2020	Greyhound	Yes	No	Aaron Schneider
2021	Space Jam: A New Legacy	Yes	No	Malcolm D. Lee
	Without Remorse	Yes	Yes	Stefano Sollima
	Red Notice	Yes	No	Rawson Marshall Thurber
	The Matrix Resurrections	Yes	No	Lana Wachowski
2022	Babylon	Yes	No	Damien Chazelle
2023	Peter Pan & Wendy	Yes	No	David Lowery
	Leave the World Behind	Yes	No	Sam Esmail
	Family Switch	Yes	No	McG
2024	Joker: Folie a Deux	Yes	No	Todd Phillips