David Shumbris

Crew · Acting

Born November 7, 1972, Goshen, New York, USA

He was born on 7th November 1972, in Goshen, New York. He is a middle child with a younger brother and an older sister. He grew up watching movies and playing sports, his favorite being baseball. After seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) at age 10, he fell in love with the action, and by the time he was 15, he wanted to be part of the action. After much persistence and determination, he received his SAG (Screen Actors Guild) membership as a Stuntman in 1994, doubling Leonardo DiCaprio in the film The Basketball Diaries (1995). He has worked on more than a 100 films, TV shows, and commercials. A few stunt credits include Angels in America (2003), Analyze That (2002), and The Manchurian Candidate (2004). He has also done work on The Forgotten (2004), starring Julianne Moore, for which he's nominated for a 2005 Taurus Stunt Award in the High Work Category performing a backwards 180' descender fall. From 1999 to 2001, he studied acting with famed drama teacher William Esper at his studio in New York. Other students that have attended his studio are David Morse, Patricia Heaton, Aaron Eckhart, and Kathy Bates. Since then, David has combined his acting with his stunt abilities to form a well-rounded stunt-actor. His acting credits include notable TV appearances on Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), and The Sopranos (1999). David and his wife Leda were married in June 2005 and currently live in the New York City area.

Filmography

• Dexter: Resurrection — Jaywalker
• 2024Drive-Away Dolls — Stunts
• 2023A Thousand and One — Stunts
• 2022Every Last Secret — Man #1
• 2021Halloween Kills — Stunt Double
• Hit & Run — David Chernik
• 2020Sister of the Groom — Stunts
• 2020The King of Staten Island — Stunts
• 2019A Vigilante — Barfly #1
• 2019Glass — Stunts
• Servant — Cult Member
• The Enemy Within — Stunts
• 2017Rough Night — Stunt Double
• 2016Jackie — Stunts
• Marvel's Jessica Jones — Odd Man
• Mr. Robot — Cop
• Gotham — Stunts
• 2014John Wick — Stunt Double
• 2014The Bag Man — Deputy Pike
• The Americans — CIA Agent (Toledo)
• The Blacklist — TAC Officer, Agent #1
• Elementary — Stunts
• Body of Proof — Ed Russell
• Person of Interest — Cyril
• Unforgettable — Stunts, Stunt Double
• Blue Bloods — John Johanssen (uncredited)
• 2010When in Rome — Stunt Double
• 2009Duplicity — Turtleneck
• Kings — Shoe thrower
• 2009Law Abiding Citizen — Stunt Double
• 2009Surrogates — Stunts
• The Good Wife — Mr. Dobbs
• 2008Choke — First Trooper
• 2008The Alphabet Killer — Stunts
• 2006Vanished — Stunt Double
• 2005Lord of War — Ukrainian Mobster
• 2004The Forgotten — Stunts
• 2004The Manchurian Candidate — Stunts
• 2003The School of Rock — Stunts
• 2002Analyze That — Stunts
• 2002Swimfan — Stunts
• 2001Kate & Leopold — Stunts
• 2001The Believer — Utility Stunts
• 2000Little Nicky — Stunts
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Officer Evans, Supporter, Kyle, Drunk
• The Sopranos — Eli Kaplan
• 1998The Substitute 2: School's Out — Stunts
• 1997Kicked in the Head — Stunts
• 1997Office Killer — Stunts
• Aliens in the Family — Christopher
• 1995The Basketball Diaries — Stunts
• Law & Order — Mike Adams, Steve, Officer #1, Red Sox Fan, Lloyd Savitsky