Rick Avery
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
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Rick Avery is a stuntman, stunt coordinator, stunt actor and second unit director who performed stunts as a Maquis colonist in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Preemptive Strike" (without a credit) and served as the stunt coordinator for Star Trek: Insurrection. On the Star Trek: Insurrection (Special Edition) DVD feature "Anatomy of a Stunt", he's describing the making of a stunt scene, a 30 ft. high fall from a cliff, which was cut from the final aired movie.
Avery is married to stuntwoman Joni Avery and they have two sons, both stuntmen, Brian Avery and Mike Avery. He was a police officer in Santa Barbara, California, where he has owned a karate studio.
Avery's stunt and stunt coordinating resume includes over 300 films and television series. Among his resume are films such as Blow Out (1981, with J. Patrick McNamara and Leslie Hoffman), Street Hawk (1985), Matlock, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988, with William Morgan Sheppard and Frank Collison), Alien Nation, Baywatch, Look Who's Talking Too (1990, with Kirstie Alley), Hook (1991, with Cameron Thor, Nick Tate, Gary Epper, Scott Leva, and Michael J. Sarna), Batman Returns (1992, with Vincent Schiavelli, Anna Katarina, Anthony DeLongis, Branscombe Richmond, Susan Rossitto, Joyce McNeal, and Lynn Salvatori), Lois & Clark, Babylon 5, Independence Day (1996, with Brent Spiner, Patricia Tallman, Derek Webster, and Carlos Lacamara), L.A. Confidential (1997, with James Cromwell), Ally McBeal, Titanic (1997, with Michael Ensign and Jenette Goldstein), V.I.P., Charmed, House on Haunted Hill (1999, with Famke Janssen), Scream 3 (2000), Erin Brockovich (2000), Crossing Jordan, Spider-man (2002, with Kirsten Dunst and Spice Williams-Crosby), Hulk (2003, with Boni Yanagisawa), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003, with Kristanna Loken), Medium (2005-2006, with Joni Avery), Batman Begins (2005), Poseidon (2006), World Trade Center (2006), and Ocean's Thirteen (2007, with Scott L. Schwartz, Brian Avery, and Joni Avery).
Among his second unit directing resume are films such as Look Who's Talking (1989), Scream 3 (2000), and Cursed (2005).
