Directing

Dieter Busch

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Known For

Drive · 2011

★ 7.62011

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) · 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

★ 6.92020

MovieActionCrime

Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.

Tropic Thunder · 2008

Tropic Thunder

★ 6.72008

MovieActionComedy

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

Live Free or Die Hard · 2007

Live Free or Die Hard

★ 6.62007

MovieActionThriller

John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter · 2012

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

★ 5.82012

MovieActionFantasy

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

From Dusk Till Dawn · 1996

From Dusk Till Dawn

★ 7.11996

MovieHorrorAction

After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.

The Next Three Days · 2010

The Next Three Days

★ 7.12010

MovieRomanceDrama

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.

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Utility Stunts

Second Unit First Assistant Director

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) · 2020

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

★ 6.92020

MovieActionCrime

Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.

Assistant Director

Tropic Thunder · 2008

Tropic Thunder

★ 6.72008

MovieActionComedy

Second Assistant Director

Live Free or Die Hard · 2007

Live Free or Die Hard

★ 6.62007

MovieActionThriller

Second Assistant Director

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter · 2012

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

★ 5.82012

MovieActionFantasy

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

Stunts

From Dusk Till Dawn · 1996

From Dusk Till Dawn

★ 7.11996

MovieHorrorAction

After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.

Second Second Assistant Director

The Next Three Days · 2010

The Next Three Days

★ 7.12010

MovieRomanceDrama

Second Assistant Director

Evolution · 2001

Evolution

★ 6.12001

MovieComedyScience Fiction

A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.

Second Assistant Director

Girl, Interrupted · 1999

Girl, Interrupted

★ 7.61999

MovieDrama

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

Second Assistant Director

The Box · 2009

The Box

★ 5.62009

MovieThrillerScience Fiction

Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.

First Assistant Director

Small Soldiers · 1998

Small Soldiers

★ 6.61998

MovieComedyAdventure

When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.

Second Assistant Director

Freedom Writers · 2007

Freedom Writers

★ 7.92007

MovieCrimeDrama

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Second Assistant Director

Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.

Second Unit First Assistant Director

Rumor Has It... · 2005

Rumor Has It...

★ 5.72005

MovieComedyRomance

Sarah Huttinger learns that her family was the inspiration for the book and film "The Graduate" -- and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.

Second Second Assistant Director

When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.

Second Assistant Director

Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman, reneges on the money he's owed, and his wife may be betraying him with the fence's young lieutenant. Moore and his partner, Bobby Blane, and their utility man, Pinky Pincus, find themselves broke, betrayed, and blackmailed. Moore is forced to commit his crew to do one last big job.

Second Assistant Director

Friday After Next · 2002

Friday After Next

★ 6.42002

MovieComedyDrama

Craig and his cousin Day-Day have finally moved out of their parents' houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they set out to track down the culprit.

Second Assistant Director

State and Main · 2000

State and Main

★ 6.32000

MovieComedyDrama

The residents of a small Vermont town don't know what hit them when a beleaguered Hollywood film crew brings a chaotic shoot to their quaint village.

Second Assistant Director

Tales from the Hood · 1995

Tales from the Hood

★ 6.31995

MovieHorrorCrime

A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in a local funeral parlor.

Second Second Assistant Director

The Darwin Awards · 2007

The Darwin Awards

★ 5.52007

MovieAdventureComedy

After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becomes an investigator for an insurance company and joins forces with a cynical field agent to probe suspicious and unusual deaths.

Associate Producer

Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas station.

First Assistant Director

Andy and Sebastian want to make a lot of money in a quick and easy way. Inspired by the movies, they become private investigators. Their first case happens to be about a beautiful girl called Annabella. But being a private investigator is a more demanding job then Andy and Sebastian had initially thought. Their female acquaintances Annabella, Christa, and Micky also have their share in Andy′s and Sebastian′s problems. The two wannabe detectives become more and more entangled in things that prove to be too much for them.

Reiniger

Four ruthless career criminals are brought together by desperation and greed in a devious attempt to sing a rival underworld boss. Dipper is the contact man for Caz, a cold blooded murderer who will let nothing stand in his way. With the deal set and the exchange for the merchandise complete, the criminals will meet to divide the money, only to discover that someone is holding out.

First Assistant Director

Cobra Kai · 2018

Cobra Kai

★ 8.22018

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

This Karate Kid sequel series picks up 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament and finds Johnny Lawrence on the hunt for redemption by reopening the infamous Cobra Kai karate dojo. This reignites his old rivalry with the successful Daniel LaRusso, who has been working to maintain the balance in his life without mentor Mr. Miyagi.

Unit Production Manager

Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

First Assistant Director