Originating from Canada, he entered the motion-picture world as a stunt performer in the early 1980s, with his first credit on Superman III, and soon added small acting parts in TV movies such as Brotherly Love and Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s he built a reputation as a versatile stunt coordinator, contributing to a range of projects that included Shoot to Kill, Look W…