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Extended Resume
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Oliver Hanisch
Stuntman
-SAG-

Height: 5’10”         Eyes: Green
Weight: 165 lbs     Hair: Brown

 



Training:

Stunts:

Stuntteam Steinmeier/Mohr in Germany. I worked 7 years for them.
Within the first 2 years I performed in 1,000 live-shows, which included
firestunts (app. 50), highfalls (appr. 300-400 66ft. backwards), stairfalls (appr. 300),
carhits (app.50-80), glassjumps (real glass, app. 50-80), fighting.
Then I worked 6 years for the stuntteam Double Action (Ronnie Paul) in Germany.


Driving:

7 years of motorsport: Kart, Formula Ford (international German championship)



Special skills:

  • Highfalls (specialty: backwards up to 80 ft.)
  • Stairfalls
  • Carhits
  • Firestunts
  • Glassjumps
  • Fighting (bar- & streetfights)
  • Stuntdriving (car & motorcycle, on-offroad)
  • Precisiondriving (car & motorcycle)
  • Racekart driver (high level)
  • Helicopter pilot (in training)
  • Underwater stunts (Padi Rescue Diver)
  • Skydiving (USPA-A)
  • Skiing (snow & water)
  • Climbing (free & alpine)
  • Rollerblading (high level)
  • Basic acrobatics (very good handstand, Unicycle: just riding, no tricks, Juggle: basic) -Speak English and German fluently


Experienced in:

  • Car rolls
  • Car crashes
  • Car jumps
  • Motorcycle falls, -crashes
  • Rappelling (swiss-and australien style)
  • Ratchets, Descenders, Decelerators, Air-Rams
  • Rigging: Flying gear (flying shorts, steelcables), safetyequipment (climbing gear, harnesses, ropes etc.)
  • Rigging all other stuntequipment (incl. div. stunttechnician-equipments like remote-controlled car launches)



Productions:

Commercials:


  • “Tschibo” (for Germany) Coordinator & Rigger: Flying actor hanging upside down (flying shorts)

  • “D-2” (for Germany) Coordinator & Rigger: Flying actors (flying shorts)

  • “Alibi” (for Germany) Coordinator/Acting: Special-task-force guy, Helicopter rappelling

  • “Fiat Punto” (for Italy) Driver: * Precisiondriving, Plum-Productions, Paramount-Studios Hollywood
     Hired through Stuntcoordinator Kelly Brown (Palm Springs)


 

 

Feature Films:


  • “Deparages” (for France) Coordinator: Stuntdriving

  • “Baracuda” (for France) Coordinator & Double & Rigger: Actor swinging, upside down (flying shorts)

  • “Kanak Attack” Coordinator: Fall off a pier into the ocean

  • “Echte Kerle” Double: * Near miss (pedestrian & car)

  • “Fuer immer und immer” Double: * Stuntdriving, Car crash (car drives through garage door)
     Coordinator: Stairfall, Little girl sits in a tiny boat and gets almost rammed by a huge ship in the Hamburg harbor,
     Safety for child actress for entire movie

  • “Helden und andere Feiglinge” Double/Acting: Climbing, Rappelling, Stuntdriving (US-Limo) / Undercover policeman,  
     Fightscenes
     Coordinator: Actor and double sliding on a slide into a cellar, Rappelling off a bridge, Rappelling inside a house,
     Climbing over a gate fighting a dog

  • “Trio” Double: Stuntdriving (carhit), * Running after a driving RV and jumping into it

  • “ St.Pauli Nacht” Coordinator: Actorsafety on the edge of a roof top

  • “Die Musterknaben” Double: * 30 feet long stairfall, * Stuntdriving
     Coordinator & Technician: Ratchet with actor on a rope (shootscene), Fightscenes

  • “Pittbull” (“Der Hund aus der Elbe”) Double: * Motorcycle stuntdriving, * Motorcycle fall
     Coordinator: Boy jumps on a leaving ship

  • “Der Rosenkavalier” Double: 15 feet backwards highfall through a window, Man in a bodybag gets beaten up with a  shovel
     Coordinator: Fightscene, Safety for two little girls standing close to a broken window looking down

  • “Fuenf Uhr Schatten” Coordinator: Actorsafety for scenes on a high tower

  • “James Bond” Utility Stunt: People in front of the AVIS store jump away, just before the BMW hits the AVIS Shop
     (“Tomorrow Never Dies”) 2nd. unit Director: Vic Armstrong, Stuntcoordinator: Dicky Bear
     Hired through Ronnie Paul (Double Action)

  • “The Watcher” (US-Production) Stunt acting: Member of a SWAT Unit, which rappels out of a helicopter, Precision driving
     Hired by Jeff Jenson, Coordinated by Cort Hassler

 

 

Shortfilms:


  • “Tour Eiffel” (shot in Paris) Double: * Stuntdriving, * Car crashes

  • Film for “Red Cross” Driver: * Motorcycle stuntdriving

  • Film for police dept. (for police training) Driver: Stuntdriving

 

 

Television Films:


  • “Gefaehrliche Naehe” Coordinator: Bicycle crash

  • “Unter Druck” Coordinator: Fightscene with a shovel

  • “Hai” Coordinator: Fall on a 45 degree angeled glasswindow of a TV-tower

  • “Kleine Schwester” Driver: * Stuntdriving (carhit)

  • “Eine Frage des Glaubens” Driver: Car crash, Stuntdriving

  • “23” Driver: Stuntdriving

  • “Freier Fall” Double: * Stuntdriving (carhit)

  • “Crashkids” Double: Stuntdriving

  • “Der Ausbruch” Double/Acting: * Stuntdriving / Man demolishes car with baseball bat

  • “Am Ende eines normalen Tages” Double: Motorcycle precisiondriving,
     Motorcycle stuntdriving* = Coordinated myself and  
     other stuntpeople and actors for the described scenes

  • “Und morgen faengt das Leben an” Driver: Motorcycle stuntdriving  (skidding nearmiss)
     Coordinator: Actorsafety for scenes on high tower

  • “Ein moerderischer Sommer” (“A small affair”) Double: Motorcycle stuntdriving, Motorcycle jump over car,
     Motorcycle fall  (guy gets beaten off the motorcycle with a shovel) Fightscenes.
     Director: Micheal Keusch (LA), 1st A.D. Paul Grey

  • “Die Sexfalle” Double/Acting: Fast carhit (assassination), 65 feet highfall backwards / Boyfriend of leading actress,
     who gets killed through 30 feet highfall backwards through staircase
     Director: Michael Keusch (LA), 1st A.D. Paul Grey (“Braveheart”)

  • “Buddies” Double: Stuntdriving, While hangclimbing under bridge, a man gets killed hitting his head on a boat falling
     off  that bridge 25 feet into water

  • “Die vier Spezialisten” Double: Car-roll, * SCUBA-diving stunt (under water killingscene), 30 ft.jump of bridge, Fightscenes

  • “Walli die Eisfrau” Double: Stuntdriving, 15 feet highfall through marquise, Climbing around on driving pickup truck
     Coordinator & Rigger: Actor playing a rockclimber hanging off a cliff on a rope

  • “Kalkuliertes Risiko” Double: * Man gets shot, falls on electric power rails (20 feet high crane rails) and dies
     Coordinator: Fightscene, Shootingscene

  • “Gehetzt” Double/Acting: * During a fightscene, a man gets almost thrown off a 70 feet building
     but can hold on to the  edge of the roof / * Boyfriend of actress gets shot in kidnapping scene
     Coordinator: Car crash, Gunfights, Fightscene, Assassination scene in restaurant with automatic gun

  • “Die Stimme des Moerders” (“Cocaine”) Double: * 60 feet backwards highfall

  • “Ein totsicheres Ding” (“Adios Kanake”) Double: Stuntdriving (carhit), Car crash
     Coordinator: Fightscene

  • “Truegerische Naehe” Double: Firestunt (burning hair), Stuntdriving,
     Coordinator & Rigger: Stuntdriving, Hangingscene (woman gets almost murdered through hanging)

  • “Frucht der Gewalt” (“Spaete Enthuellung”) Double: Motorcycle stunt driving,
     Motorcycle fall (bike falls and skidds into large  truck)

  • “Sylvias Bauch” Double: Motorcycle precisiondriving, Motorcycle stuntdriving

  • “Risiko Null” Driver: Stuntdriving (Actress gets pushed on the street and almost run over by a car)

  • “Das verlorene Gesicht” Driver: Stuntdriving

  • “Unser Mann” Double: Stuntdriving, Car crashes into phonebooth and explodes

  • "Prod.Winkelmann" Acting: Patron in a restaurant chooting

  • "Prod: Fritz Wagner Film" Double: * Car crash into a rock
     Coordinator: Motorcycle fall

  • “Der Kinderhasser” Double: Stuntdriving (US-Limo)

  • “May-Day” Double: * Fall in water (men chasing each other, jumping from boat to boat in harbor) * Fightscenes
     Coordinator: Fightscenes

  • “Lifeline” Acting: * Security officer in prison gets beaten

  • “Callboy” Double: * Jump through glasswindow

  • “Moerderische Zwillinge” Double: * Man gets killed by a fall in a glasstable
     (real clear glass, one camera looks from  underneath)

  • “Nicht ohne meine Eltern” Double: * Car crash
     Coordinator: Double jumps away from an exploding car

  • “Der Erlkoenig” Double: Stuntdriving, Car jump, Climbing, * Rappelling (free on a thick rope)
     Director: Nicki Moellerschoen (LA)

  • “Gotta have it” Double: Rappelling off a building and releasing to a 30 feet fall into water

  • “Die Schwiegermutter” Double: * Stuntdriving (ambulance car)

  • “Flemming 2” Double: Firestunt (man runs through burning building on fire finally killing himself
     by jumping out of the  window doing a 50 feet highfall on fire,
     Car motorcycle chase (Ferrari vs. Harley, bike crashes in Ferrari) * Gunfight and  jump off a terrace

  • “Die Pfefferkoerner” Double: 40 feet jump into water

  • “Zwei Freundinnen” (“Der Knacks”) Acting: Soccerfans beat man up,
     Coordinator: Killingscene (man gets suffocated with plasticbag by two women)

  • “Ein Mann wie eine Waffe” Acting: * Played notorious womenkiller (several graphic killingscenes),
     Man falls into candle stand and dies

  • “Der Koenig von St.Pauli” Acting: Man beating main actor during a riot

  • “Tod auf Amrun” Acting: Motorcycleriders beat men up

  • “Der Hurenstreik” Acting/Double: Cleaningmen rappelling off the side of “Cap San Diego” / Rappelling off the same ship
     Coordinator: Actor rappelling off the side of the ship

  • “Gefaerliche Hochzeit” Acting: Bad guys beating a man

  • “Oberarzt jagt Oberaerztin” Acting: Ladder fall

  • “Meine beste Feindin” Acting/Double: * Transvestite (falls on street) /* Woman who gets knocked down,
    *Stuntdriving (carhit)

  • “Der Virus” (“Schmutziger Sex”) Double: * 15 ft. backwards fall for first part of big swing
     into the wall of a building on a 65  ft. rope

  • “Die einzige Zeugin” Double: * Man gets shot
     Coordinator: Killingscene (fight with a knife), Fightscene (in a plant warehouse), Climbingscenes

  • “Operation Pandora” Coordinator: Stuntdriving, Van jump off a ship ramp

  • “Heiss und Kalt” Double: * Stuntdriving (nearmiss car/peds), Car roll

  • “Der Tourist” Acting: Man on the run falls off a ladder, which gets loose outside on a building (30ft..backwards fall)

 

 


Television Series:


  • “Alfa Team” Coordinator: Fightscene

  • “Happy Birthday” Coordinator: Car-truck crash

  • “Fahrschule Kampman” Double: Stuntdriving, Car crash

  • “Der 7. Sinn” (Traffic Safety Magazine) Driver: Stuntdriving, Car rolls, Car jump,
     Car crashes, Bicycle crash in car, Bicycle fall

  • “Anna Maria” Safetydiver: For stuntdouble in scene,
     where dredgingmachine (catapillar) gets driven in to a lake

  • “Die grosse Freiheit” Driver: Stuntdriving

  • “Post Mortem” Driver & Double: Stuntdriving, Nearmiss (car/ped)
     Coordinator: Cop chases bad guy through old steelfactory, Fightscenes, Shooting

  • “Freunde fuer’s Leben” Driver: Stuntdriving (two cars trap a bicyclerider between each other)

  • “Auf gute Nachbarschaft” Driver: * Stuntdriving (carhit)

  • “Gesetz der Serie” Driver/Double/Acting: Stuntdriving/woman gets thrown in a mirror
     * Securityman gets shot
     Coordinator: Fightscenes with an axe, Jump through a glasswindow

  • “Lehrer Doktor Specht” Double: Motorcycle fall (guy faints on the bike)

  • “Einsatz fuer Lobeck” (“Polizeiboot 404”) Double: Fightscene, Motorcycle stuntdriving

  • “Stadtklinik” Double: * Stuntdriving, Car crashes, Motorcycle jump 40 feet down into water of harbor basin,
     Coordinator: Fall off a horse, Fightscenes

  • “Der Bergdoktor” Double: Bicycle fall (bicycle race, five racers fall)

  • “Schwarz greift ein” Double/Driver/Rigger: Stuntdriving /* Car hits bicyclerider/Rigging for double, who falls through
     floor Coordinator: Bicycle fall, Hangingscene (woman killed herself)

  • “Kissenschlacht” Double: Stuntdriving

  • “Unter Uns” Double: Car jump 30 feet down into water of harbor basin (driven) * Fall off a boat into water
     Coordinator: Climbingscenes, Fightscenes

  • “Geliebte Schwestern” Double: * Freeclimbing scene

  • “Tatort” Double/Acting: Stuntdriving, Jump in a leaving car (legs dragging)
     * Played a bad guy beating a woman,  Fightscenes, * Jump over hedge-row (header)
     Coordinator: Remote controlled car crash, Stuntdriving

  • “Die Maenner vom K-3” Double: Stuntdriving, Car crashes through construction barrier and nearmisses a worker
     95 feet descender-fall and 30 feet decelerator fall off the same building

  • “Balko” Double/Acting: Stuntdriving, Car chases, Motorcycle stuntdriving, Car crashs,
     Carjump, Motorcycle falls,  Nearmisses, Climbing, Highfalls, Glassjump,
     Running off an exploding ship, Fights, Fall through an unstable livingroom floor  in an old house.
     Man standing on collapsing scaffold and can hold on to window frame, Bicycle fall,
     Tractor crash in car, Car  jump 30 feet down (pushed with a specially prepared car)
     Taxidriver beats main character up, Policemen
     Coordinator: Fightscenes, Guy gets hung over railing and almost falls

  • “SK-Babies” Double/Driver: Stuntdriving, Car crashes, Car jump, Motorcycle precisiondriving,
     * Climbing on a crane, Fights,  Rollerbladestunt (guy races through people and gets knocked down),
     15 feet fall off brickwall, Fightscenes / 30 ft. car  jump down into water of harbor basin
     (pushed with a specially prepared car)
     Coordinator: Stuntdriving, Fightscenes, Climbing at side of building (13. floor), Climbing on a crane, Hanging scene

  • “Bella Block” Double: Stuntdriving, Car-truck crash
     Coordinator: Car-motorscooter chase

  • “April, April” Acting: * Fightscene, Stuntdriving* = Coordinated myself and other stuntpeople
     and actors for the described  scenes

  • “Doppelter Einsatz” Double/Acting: * Motorcycle fall, Stuntdriving, Carhit, Car chases, Fights,
     Rollerblade crash in halfpipe,  * Stairfall / Men beat childmolester up
     Coordinator & Rigger: /Man on the run almost falls off a ladder, which becomes loose on a building

  • “Die Geliebte” Double: Motorcycle fall (motorcycle hits pedesrian and falls)

  • “Verbotene Liebe” Double: Precision driving, * Stuntdriving, Motorcycle precision driving,
    * Bicycle crash (car hits bike from  behind) Jumping in leaving car (legs dragging),
    * Rollerblade stunt (pulled behind a car), Fights
     Coordinator: Drunk man tries to make a headstand on a table and falls

  • “Hallo Onkel Doc” Double: Bicycle fall

  • “Aus gutem Hause” Double: * Kartracing, * Guy saves girl by pulling her off the racetrack

  • “Schimpanski” Double/Driver/Acting:Stuntdriving, Car chases, Motorcycle stuntdriving and jump over a car
    * Car looses  rearaxle, 30 and 15 feet Highfall, Fights, Bodydouble for sexscene,
     Climbing, Jump over hedge-row (header),
     10 feet jump  out of car hanging on junkjard crane (hands and feet cuffed),
     cops running over junkcars chasing the bad guys / Bad guy  crashes car and dies
     Coordinator: Fightscenes, 20 feet balcony fall, Glass jump

  • “Motorrad-Cops” Double: Motorcycle precision -stunt driving,
     Motorcycle chases tank over fields (passenger transfers from  bike to tank),
     Car chases, Motorcycle drives through glassdoor,
     Motorcycle fall and crash into a gas truck, Firestunt  (partial), Stuntdriving
     Coordinator: Fightscenes, Stuntdriving, Shootscene

  • “Wie Pech und Schwefel”
     Double: * Motorcycle fall (car overlooks bike in an intersection, bike swerves and falls)

  • “Grossstadtrevier” Double: Stuntdriving, Car chases
     Coordinator: Actorsafety on bridge railing

  • “Das Amt” Coordinator: Actor climbing at a fassade (Studio)

  • “Ein Fall fuer Zwei” Double: * Stuntdriving, * Climbing scenes, * Stairfall
     Coordinator: Stuntdriving, Fightscenes

  • “Der Dicke und der Belgier” Double/Acting: * Stuntdriving / * 10 feet fall onto stage as lighting guy
     Coordinator & Rigger: Actors hang in chains (flying-shorts),
     Actress dangles off towtruck boom (jerksuit)

  • “Notruf” Double: Motorcycle fall, Stuntdriving

  • “Die Sternbergs” Double/Acting: * Car jump (over a 15 feet high ramp into a field),
     * Motorcycle fall / * Policecar crash

  • “Parkhotel Stern” Double: * Stuntdriving

  • “Die Kommisarin” Double: * Car crash,* Jump off a 12 feet wall

  • “St.Angela” Double: Rollerbladejump over bed,- fall,-stairfall,
     * Rappelling off a bridge (free on a thick rope)
      Coordinator: Motorscooter precisiondriving, Fightscenes

  • “SAR-Rettungsflieger” Double/Acting: Carhit with jerk-back, * 25 feet backwards highfall, 40 feet jump into water,  
     Stuntdriving, * Car Motorcycle chase, Bicycle fall, Parachute-landing-crash (Descender)
     * Fish thief trapped in ice cold water
     Coordinator: Girl gets pushed onto subway rails,guy tries to safe her and gets killed by a subway train,
     Little boy falls backwards out of a window 35 feet into a container

  • “Helicops” Double: Guy gets beaten up by a woman, Stuntdriving (horse transporter), Car crash
     Coordinator: Woman knocks other woman out

  • “Hotel Elfi” Double: * Standing on top of bridge railing

  • “Verstehen Sie Spass” (“candid camera”)
     Acting: * Man is followed by a remote controlled luggage cart and run over

  • “Kuestenwache” Acting: * Polish drugdealer flipping their paddleboat on the ocean,
     Firefighter running through fire

  • “Polizeiruf 110”
     Acting: * Played a skinhead, pushing a guy in front of a subwaytrain, flees and fights with a policeman

  • “Um die Dreissig” Double/Acting: * 59 ft. Motorcycle jump with crash (1100 BMW) in a desert race, * Motorcycle  stuntdriving (desert race),  Stuntdriving /Desert race motorcyclerider

  • “Die Partner” Driver:* Near miss (car/ped.)
     Coordinator: 12ft. backwards fall

  • “Der Koenig” Coordinator: Car crashes into truck

 


Gameshows:



  • “Pack die Zahnbuerste ein” Acting: * Two men cutting the rooftop of a car open with electric metal-cutter

  • ”Geld oder Liebe” Acting: Mafiosi chasing a woman (Stuntdriving, Fights)


 

* = Coordinated myself and other stuntpeople and actors for the described scenes





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