Ben Hernandez Bray
- Acting
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Tracker · Director
- The Lincoln Lawyer · Director
- Walker · Director
- Big Sky · Director
- 9-1-1: Lone Star · Director
- El Chicano · Writer, Director
- The Enemy Within · Director
- Roswell, New Mexico · Director
- A Star Is Born · Stunts
- 9-1-1 · Director
- S.W.A.T. · Director
- The Keeping Hours · Stunt Coordinator
- Lowriders · Stunt Coordinator
- Queen of the South · Director
- Lucifer · Director
- DC's Legends of Tomorrow · Director
- Shadowhunters · Director
- Joy · Stunt Coordinator
- Supergirl · Director
- Curve · Stunt Coordinator
- Woman in Gold · Stunts
- McFarland, USA · Ernesto Valles
- Accidental Love · Stunt Coordinator
- The Gambler · Stunt Coordinator
- State of Affairs · Sal Gomez, Director
- Ouija · Stunt Coordinator
- Stretch · Producer, Stunt Coordinator
- Life After Beth · Stunt Coordinator
- Earth to Echo · Stunt Coordinator
- In the Blood · Stunt Coordinator
- American Hustle · Stunt Coordinator
- Out of the Furnace · Stunt Coordinator
- Evidence · Stunt Coordinator
- Trust Me · Roland, Stunt Coordinator
- Channeling · Badger
- Jack Reacher · Stunts
- Silver Linings Playbook · Stunt Coordinator
- Argo · Stunts
- Arrow · Director
- Savages · Cartel Heist Passenger, Stunts
- The Three Stooges · Stunts
- The Grey · Dwayne Hernandez, Stunt Coordinator
- Real Steel · Ricky's Henchman (uncredited), Stunts
- The Fighter · Fight Choreographer
- The Defenders · Guard (Jeff)
- The A-Team · Mexican Captor #1, Stunt Coordinator
- Sympathy for Delicious · Stunts
- Powder Blue · Security
- Crank: High Voltage · Stunts
- AmericanEast · Stunt Coordinator
- Lakeview Terrace · Stunt Coordinator
- Columbus Day · Stunts
- Iron Man · Utility Stunts
- Stiletto · Benny, Stunts
- The Ruins · Stunt Coordinator
- Breaking Bad · Cartel Gunman #2
- No Country for Old Men · Stunts
- Urban Justice · Stunts
- Transformers · Stunts
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End · Stunts
- Half Past Dead 2 · Stunts
- The Hammer · Stunt Coordinator
- How to Rob a Bank · Stunt Coordinator
- Smokin' Aces · Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
- Day Break · Train
- Unknown · Uzi Henchman, Stunt Coordinator
- Death Row · Stunts
- The Legend of Butch & Sundance · Stunts
- Entity: Nine · Guard #1, Stunt Coordinator
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang · Dexter Goon
- The Island · Stunts
- The Closer · Federale, Komb's partner (uncredited)
- Hostage · Stunts
- Funky Monkey · Stunts
- I ♥ Huckabees · Davy, Stunts
- The Alamo · Stunts
- The Rundown · Stunts
- Seabiscuit · Stunts
- National Lampoon's Gold Diggers · Stunt Coordinator
- Cradle 2 the Grave · Stunts