Joe Bucaro III

Joe Bucaro III is an American stuntman and stunt coordinator who was raised in Park Ridge and Wheaton, Illinois, and set out to work in Hollywood after seeing Evel Knievel jump buses in Chicago and the film Hooper as a boy. He trained at a Chicago stunt school that opened in 1988 and picked up early screen work as an extra in Uncle Buck (1989), The Package (1989) and Flatliners (1990). His first break came when Universal Studios cast him, from roughly 2,000 applicants, for its Wild West Stunt Show in Orlando, and after two years in Florida he performed in a pirate stunt show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. In Los Angeles he doubled for Steven Seagal, and he has since doubled for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Will Ferrell, John Cusack, Jeff Goldblum, David Hasselhoff and Dan Marino, worked as a stunt coordinator and double for Vince Vaughn, and won two Emmy awards for television action sequences.