Jeff Dashnaw

Jeffrey J. "Jeff" Dashnaw (born April 1, 1956) is an American stuntman, film director, second unit director, and actor.

Life and career

Dashnaw was born on April 1, 1956. He got his start in his stunt career on Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) before moving into second unit directing with 1994's The Puppet Masters.

Among the films he's directed second unit on include The Magnificent Seven, The Equalizer 2, Get Him to the Greek, The Five-Year Engagement, the Spy Kids trilogy, Whip It, Shark Night, The Final Destination, and The Highwaymen.

Dashnaw is also an outspoken supporter of the United Stuntwomen's Association, which has his wife Tracy as a member.

Filmography

Year	Title	Stunts	Second unit director	Director
1980	Smokey and the Bandit II	Yes	No	Hal Needham
1984	The Terminator	Yes	No	James Cameron
1987	Lethal Weapon	Yes	No	Richard Donner
1990	Die Hard 2	Yes	No	Renny Harlin
1991	Terminator 2: Judgement Day	Yes	No	James Cameron
1992	Under Siege	Yes	No	Andrew Davis
	Lethal Weapon 3	Yes	No	Richard Donner
1994	The Dream Masters	Yes	Yes	Stuart Orme
1996	The Rich Man's Wife	Yes	Yes	Amy Holden Jones
1997	Fire Down Below	Yes	No	Félix Enríquez Alcalá
	The Postman	Yes	No	Kevin Costner
	Trojan War	Yes	Yes	George Huang
1999–2002	Roswell	Yes	Yes	Various; television series
2000	What Lies Beneath	Yes	No	Robert Zemeckis
2001	Spy Kids	Yes	Yes	Robert Rodriguez
2002	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	Yes	Yes
2003	Spy Kids 3D: Game Over	Yes	Yes
	Once Upon a Time in Mexico	Yes	No
	Bad Santa	Yes	No	Terry Zwigoff
2004	Starsky & Hutch	Yes	No	Todd Phillips
	Cellular	Yes	No	David R. Ellis
	Collateral	Yes	No	Michael Mann
2005	Sin City	Yes	No	Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller
	XXX: State of the Union	Yes	No	Lee Tamahori
	The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D	Yes	No	Robert Rodriguez
	Underclassman	Yes	Yes	Marcos Siega
	Jarhead	Yes	No	Sam Mendes
2006	Scary Movie 4	Yes	No	David Zucker
2007	Grindhouse	Yes	No	Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino
	Planet Terror	Yes	No	Robert Rodriguez
	Death Proof	Yes	No	Quentin Tarantino
	3:10 to Yuma	Yes	No	James Mangold
	Balls of Fury	Yes	No	Robert Ben Garant
	Beowulf	Yes	No	Robert Zemeckiss
2008	Street Kings	Yes	No	David Ayer
	Iron Man	Yes	No	Jon Favreau
	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Yes	No	Steven Spielberg
2009	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra	Yes	No	Stephen Sommers
	Inglourious Basterds	Yes	No	Quentin Tarantino
	The Final Destination	Yes	Yes	David R. Ellis
	Whip It	Yes	Yes	Drew Barrymore
	Avatar	Yes	No	James Cameron
2010	Get Him to the Greek	Yes	Yes	Nicholas Stoller
	Iron Man 2	Yes	No	Jon Favreau
	Predators	Yes	No	Nimród E. Antal
	Due Date	Yes	No	Todd Phillips
2011	Cowboys & Aliens	Yes	No	Jon Favreau
	Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son	No	Yes	John Whitesell
	Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World	Yes	No	Robert Rodriguez
	Shark Night	Yes	Yes	David R. Ellis
2012	The Five-Year Engagement	Yes	Yes	Nicholas Stoller
	Django Unchained	Yes	No	Quentin Tarantino
2013	R.I.P.D.	Yes	No	Robert Schwentke
	Machete Kills	Yes	No	Robert Rodriguez
	Thor: The Dark World	Yes	No	Alan Taylor
2014	Neighbors	Yes	Yes	Nicholas Stoller
	Transcendence	Yes	No	Wally Pfister
	The Purge: Anarchy	Yes	No	James DeMonaco
	Sin City: A Dame to Kill For	Yes	No	Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller
2015	Fantastic Four	Yes	No	Josh Trank
	Point Break	Yes	No	Ericson Core
	The Hateful Eight	Yes	No	Quentin Tarantino
2016	Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	Yes	No	Nicholas Stoller
	Jason Bourne	Yes	No	Paul Greengrass
	The Magnificent Seven	Yes	Yes	Antoine Fuqua
2017	Baywatch	Yes	No	Seth Gordon
2018	The Equalizer 2	Yes	Yes	Antoine Fuqua
2019	The Highwaymen	Yes	Yes	John Lee Hancock
2020	Spenser Confidential	No	Yes	Peter Berg
	News of the World	Yes	Yes	Paul Greengrass
2022	Emancipation	Yes	No	Antoine Fuqua
2024	Civil War	Yes	No	Alex Garland