Scott L. Schwartz

Scott L. Schwartz was an American actor, stuntman and professional wrestler whose size and agility brought him many thug and villain parts. Born in Philadelphia, he became a professional wrestler after college and was trained in the late 1970s by Walter Killer Kowalski. Using ring names such as Giant David, Joshua Ben-Gurion and Igor the Giant, he toured widely and won the UWF Israeli Championship once. A Hollywood agent spotted him while he was wrestling in Bakersfield, California, and he later moved into film and television. His wrestling experience helped him with stunt work and staged fights. On screen he appeared in Angel, Charmed, The Tick, Black Scorpion, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek: Enterprise, and in features including The Scorpion King (2002), Spider-Man, Fire Down Below, Fun with Dick and Jane, and Starsky & Hutch. He was best known as Bruiser in Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen.