Stunt+Coordinator

A stunt coordinator is usually an experienced stunt performer and is hired by a film director or production company to arrange the casting of stunt players or stunt doubles and performance of stunts for the film. In many cases, the stunt coordinator budgets, designs and choreographs the stunt sequence to suit the script and the director's vision.

To become a stunt coordinator, you have had to have some kind of training in the field, and had once been a stunt actor. You'd also, quite obviously want to be quite fit, or doing silly stunts would be fairly hard.

Changes to this role could be due to updates in technology, such as CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery). Why would you hire someone to hire and organize other people to do crazy crap? Let's just do it on a computer like us humans do with everything else.

Paul Weston is a great example of a Stunt Coordinator. Not only did he coordinate stunts from James Bond, Superman, Indiana Jones and Star Wars, but he was also used as a stunt man in some.