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Craig R. Baxley

Born October 20, 1949 · Los Angeles, California, USA (age 76)

Craig Redding Baxley (born October 20, 1949) is an American actor, director, author, 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 …

Known For

Predator

Predator · 1987

MovieScience FictionAction

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

The Warriors

The Warriors · 1979

MovieActionThriller

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

Diamonds Are Forever

Diamonds Are Forever · 1971

Diamonds Are Forever

MovieActionThriller

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind · 1977

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

MovieScience FictionDrama

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure · 1972

The Poseidon Adventure

MovieAdventureDrama

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

Logan's Run

Logan's Run · 1976

MovieActionScience Fiction

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

Dark Angel

Dark Angel · 1990

MovieActionThriller

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. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner is killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Battle for the Planet of the Apes · 1973

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

MovieActionScience Fiction

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.

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Predator

Predator · 1987

MovieScience FictionAction

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Stunt Coordinator

The Warriors

The Warriors · 1979

MovieActionThriller

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

Stunt Driver

Diamonds Are Forever

Diamonds Are Forever · 1971

Diamonds Are Forever

MovieActionThriller

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.

Stunts

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind · 1977

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

MovieScience FictionDrama

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

Stunt Driver

The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure · 1972

The Poseidon Adventure

MovieAdventureDrama

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

Stunts

Logan's Run

Logan's Run · 1976

MovieActionScience Fiction

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

Stunts

Dark Angel

Dark Angel · 1990

MovieActionThriller

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. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner is killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...

Director

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Battle for the Planet of the Apes · 1973

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

MovieActionScience Fiction

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.

Stunts

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes · 1972

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

MovieActionScience Fiction

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt against humanity.

Stunts

What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc? · 1972

What's Up, Doc?

MovieComedyCrime

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Stunts

The Long Riders

The Long Riders · 1980

The Long Riders

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.

Stunt Coordinator

The Parallax View

The Parallax View · 1974

The Parallax View

MovieCrimeDrama

An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

Stunt Double

Earthquake

Earthquake · 1974

MovieActionDrama

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Stunts

Shampoo

Shampoo · 1975

MovieComedyDrama

On Election Day, 1968, irresponsible hairdresser and ladies' man George Roundy is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his girlfriends and mistress Felicia Karpf, whose husband Lester is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend Jackie.

Stunt Double

Action Jackson

Action Jackson · 1988

MovieActionComedy

Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

Director

Foul Play

Foul Play · 1978

MovieComedyMystery

A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.

Stunt Double

Rollerball

Rollerball · 1975

MovieScience FictionDrama

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.

Stunts

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait · 1978

Heaven Can Wait

MovieFantasyComedy

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

Stunt Coordinator

Sniper 2

Sniper 2 · 2002

A former Marine sniper is lured back in on a top-secret mission to take out a rogue general accused of running a stealth operation of hit-and-run ethnic cleansing missions in an area known as "No Man's Land."

Director

Stone Cold

Stone Cold · 1991

MovieActionCrime

Joe Huff is a tough, loner cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Huff 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

Fun with Dick and Jane

Fun with Dick and Jane · 1977

Fun with Dick and Jane

MovieComedyCrime

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Stunts

Reds

MovieDramaHistory

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.

Second Unit Director

Mr. Majestyk

Mr. Majestyk · 1974

MovieActionCrime

A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.

Stunts

Left Behind: World at War

Left Behind: World at War · 2005

Left Behind: World at War

MovieActionAdventure

A year and a half ago, the globe was hit with the biggest catastrophe it had ever seen. Without warning and without explanation, hundreds of millions simply vanished off the face of the Earth. The world was in chaos like never 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, who now rules the entire world.

Director

The A-Team

The A-Team · 1983

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."

Stunt Coordinator

Harry O

Harry O · 1974

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe.

Stunt Coordinator

Rose Red

Rose Red · 2002

SeriesMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy

Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, commissions a team of psychics and a gifted autistic girl to find out the truth about an old, supposedly haunted mansion called Rose Red.

Director

Storm of the Century

Storm of the Century · 1999

Storm of the Century

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

When a blizzard hits an isolated island town it brings with it a mysterious stranger intent on terrorizing the people for a sinister purpose.

Director

The Lost Room

The Lost Room · 2006

SeriesMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy

A detective investigates a mysterious motel room, which acts as a portal to an alternate universe.

Director

The Triangle

The Triangle · 2005

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

A shipping magnate hires four experts from various fields to investigate what happened to his ships that went missing in the Bermuda Triangle. The team discovers a threat that might unravel time itself and cause the world to end.

Director

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital · 2004

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital

SeriesMysteryDrama

Kingdom is a hospital whose bizarre population includes a brilliant surgeon who lives in the basement, a nearly blind security guard and a nurse who regularly faints at the sight of blood. But when patients and staff hear the voice of a girl crying through the halls and a patient destined for life as a paraplegic miraculously recovers, they are dismissive of any suggestion of mysticism or unseen powers... at their own peril.

Director