Ben Hernandez Bray

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Ben Hernandez Bray is a film and television director who was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in one of the toughest San Fernando Valley neighborhoods. He's the oldest of six children, raised by his Mother and Grandmother and is of Mexican and Irish descent. In the late 1980's his boxing skills led him into the stunt industry where he then became one of the very few successful latino stuntmen in Hollywood and eventually becoming one of the top action stunt coordinators and second unit directors, working specifically with "Smoking Aces" Joe Carnahan and "Silver Linings Playbook" David O Russell. After twenty five plus years in the industry and over one hundred fifty film and tv credits, Mr Bray made his television directorial debut in 2015 with Katie Heigl's tv series "State of Affairs" for NBC/Universal, he then went on to direct episodes for Fox/Bruckheimer, CW/Greg Berlanti and ABC/Freeform. In 2018 will be Bray's feature film debut which he co-wrote with Joe Carnahan called "El Chicano" a Mexican Super hero story about two brothers growing up in East L.A. The story was inspired and originally written by Bray 10 years earlier after losing his youngest brother to gang violence. The film is being produced by War Party Productions and Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

Filmography

• Tracker — Director
• The Lincoln Lawyer — Director
• Walker — Director
• 9-1-1: Lone Star — Director
• Big Sky — Director
• 2019El Chicano — Writer, Director
• Roswell, New Mexico — Director
• The Enemy Within — Director
• 9-1-1 — Director
• 2018A Star Is Born — Stunts
• 2017Lowriders — Stunt Coordinator
• S.W.A.T. — Director
• 2017The Keeping Hours — Stunt Coordinator
• DC's Legends of Tomorrow — Director
• Lucifer — Director
• Queen of the South — Director
• Shadowhunters — Director
• 2015Accidental Love — Stunt Coordinator
• 2015Curve — Stunt Coordinator
• 2015Joy — Stunt Coordinator
• 2015McFarland, USA — Ernesto Valles
• Supergirl — Director
• 2015Woman in Gold — Stunts
• 2014Earth to Echo — Stunt Coordinator
• 2014In the Blood — Stunt Coordinator
• 2014Life After Beth — Stunt Coordinator
• 2014Ouija — Stunt Coordinator
• State of Affairs — Sal Gomez, Director
• 2014Stretch — Producer, Stunt Coordinator
• 2014The Gambler — Stunt Coordinator
• 2013American Hustle — Stunt Coordinator
• 2013Channeling — Badger
• 2013Evidence — Stunt Coordinator
• 2013Out of the Furnace — Stunt Coordinator
• 2013Trust Me — Roland, Stunt Coordinator
• 2012Argo — Stunts
• Arrow — Director
• 2012Jack Reacher — Stunts
• 2012Savages — Cartel Heist Passenger, Stunts
• 2012Silver Linings Playbook — Stunt Coordinator
• 2012The Grey — Dwayne Hernandez, Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
• 2012The Three Stooges — Stunts
• 2011Real Steel — Ricky's Henchman (uncredited), Stunts
• 2010Sympathy for Delicious — Stunts
• 2010The A-Team — Mexican Captor #1, Stunt Coordinator
• The Defenders — Guard (Jeff)
• 2010The Fighter — Fight Choreographer
• 2009Crank: High Voltage — Stunts
• 2009Powder Blue — Security
• 2008AmericanEast — Stunt Coordinator
• Breaking Bad — Cartel Gunman #2
• 2008Columbus Day — Stunts
• 2008Iron Man — Utility Stunts
• 2008Lakeview Terrace — Stunt Coordinator
• 2008Stiletto — Benny, Stunts
• 2008The Ruins — Stunt Coordinator
• 2007Half Past Dead 2 — Stunts
• 2007How to Rob a Bank — Stunt Coordinator
• 2007No Country for Old Men — Stunts
• 2007Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End — Stunts
• 2007The Hammer — Stunt Coordinator
• 2007Transformers — Stunts
• 2007Urban Justice — Stunts
• Day Break — Train
• 2006Death Row — Stunts
• 2006Entity: Nine — Guard #1, Stunt Coordinator
• 2006Smokin' Aces — Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
• 2006The Legend of Butch & Sundance — Stunts
• 2006Unknown — Uzi Henchman, Stunt Coordinator
• 2005Hostage — Stunts
• 2005Kiss Kiss Bang Bang — Dexter Goon
• The Closer — Federale, Komb's partner (uncredited)
• 2005The Island — Stunts
• 2004Funky Monkey — Stunts
• 2004I ♥ Huckabees — Davy, Stunts, Stunt Coordinator
• 2004The Alamo — Stunts
• 2003Cradle 2 the Grave — Stunts
• 2003National Lampoon's Gold Diggers — Stunt Coordinator
• 2003National Security — Detective
• 2003Seabiscuit — Stunts
• 2003The Rundown — Stunts
• 2003Vegas Dick — Loan Shark, Stunts
• CSI: Miami — Danny Pilar, Nathan Bertram
• 2002Collateral Damage — Stunts
• She Spies — Digger
• The Shield — Santi
• 2002Ticker — Helicopter Gunman, Stunts
• Without a Trace — Motorcycle Guy
• Alias — Tchen
• 2001Crazy/Beautiful — Stunts
• 2001Double Take — Utility Stunts
• 2001Pearl Harbor — Stunts
• 2001Radical Jack — Stunts
• 2001Swordfish — Stunts
• 1999Dark Nova — Stunts
• 1999The Hurricane — Joey Giardello
• 1999Three Kings — Stunts
• Martial Law — Gang Guy
• 1998Phantoms — Stunts
• 1997Gang Related — Stunts
• 1996Courage Under Fire — Stunts
• 1995My Family — Stunts
• 1995The Prophecy — Stunts
• 1994Blue Tiger — Stunts
• 1994Dead Connection
• The Black Demon: Atlantis — Director