Rick Avery

Rick Avery is a stunt performer, stunt coordinator, actor, director and helicopter pilot with more than 500 film, television and commercial credits. He has been nominated three times for Screen Actors Guild awards, winning the cast award for Traffic and the stunt ensemble honor for Batman Dark Knight, along with a 2009 Taurus World Stunt Award for vehicular work on that same film. His second unit directing credits include Hands of Stone (2016), Scream 3, Anchorman and Identity, and he directed the features The Expert and Deadly Outbreak plus the documentary Raiders Remembered, which took an honorable mention at the New York Film Festival. As an actor he appeared in Ant Man, Heat, Spiderman, Batman Begins and Edge of Darkness. A fifth degree black belt inducted into the Martial Arts Hall of Honors in 2010, he also flies helicopters for television productions and hosted the internet show Hardknocks.