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John Stead

  • Stunts
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Actor
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John Stead
John Stead is a Canadian director and stunt coordinator.

His work has received several awards and nominations including, winner of two Canadian Screen Awards for Best Stunt Coordination, an Award of Excellence (Canadian International Film Festival), a Genre Award for Best Suspense (BNFF), a Derek F. Mitchell Artistic Director's Award (Stratford Festival), a Judges' Choice Award (15 Minutes of Fame International Film Festival), a Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford Festival), Best Short 1st Runner-Up (Ticket to Hollywood International Film and Screenplay Festival) and a nomination for a Best Short Award (Directors Guild of Canada).

He has directed the feature films Cyborg Soldier for Nu Image/Peace Arch Entertainment, Troubled Waters for Genius Productions/Peace Arch Entertainment, and Good Morning Tomorrow for Southern Ice Films. His short films include the multiple award-winning thriller, The Waking for Boomerang Films, The Hot Flash for Wishing Field Entertainment, End Game for Wake Up Fast Productions, and Charon's Obal for Right Side Up Entertainment. He has directed on several television series including Pretty Hard Cases, Designated Survivor, Dark Matter, Bitten, The Bobby Buck Show, XIII, Lost Girl, Mutant X, Aaron Stone, The Dresden Files, Tracker, Earth: Final Conflict, and The Adventures of Sinbad. His theatre credits include The Stratford Festival, Canadian Stage Company and The Guthrie Theatre.

He has stunt coordinated the action sequences for more than 700 film and television episodes in Canada and abroad, and stunt performed on over 300 TV episodes and films.

John is a Master Instructor-Emeritus with the Academy of Dramatic Combat, Stage Combat Coordinator for The National Theatre School, and a member of the Society of Canadian Fight Directors. Over the course of 30 years he has been the fight director on over 600 professional theatre productions. John was Head of Stage Combat for the Stratford Festival of Canada for 25 seasons where he was fight director on over 200 productions. As well, he is the Fight Director with the Shaw Festival with over 100 productions to date. He has worked across Canada and the U.S. with numerous companies including Soulpepper Theatre, Canadian Stage Company, the National Ballet, Mirvish Productions, Theatre Passe Muraille, Tarragon Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Factory Theatre, the National Arts Centre, Studio Arena Theatre, the Geva Theatre in Rochester, the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C., Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Los Angeles Ahmanson Theatre and the Lincoln Centre on Broadway.

John has taught at the National Theatre School, the Birmingham Conservatory, and the Universities of Toronto, Waterloo, Humber, Saskatchewan and Wilfred Laurier.
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    • 3 wins & 3 nominations

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Known for:

Edward Norton in The Incredible Hulk (2008)
The Incredible Hulk
6.6
  • Stunts(Toronto)
  • 2008
Robbie Amell in Code 8 (2019)
Code 8
6.1
  • Stunts
  • 2019
Joel Kinnaman in RoboCop (2014)
RoboCop
6.2
  • Stunts
  • 2014
Frequency (2000)
Frequency
7.4
  • Stunts
  • 2000

Credits

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Stunts

  • The Lake
    • stunt coordinator
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Fellow Travelers
    • stunt performer
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Painkiller
    • stunt driver
    • Post-production
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2023
  • Pretty Hard Cases
    • stunt coordinator
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 2021–2023
  • The Hardy Boys
    • stunt coordinator
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 2020–2023
  • Skymed
    • stunt coordinator
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Late Bloomer
    • stunt coordinator
    • In Production
    • TV Series
  • Skymed (2022)
    Skymed
    • stunt coordinator
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Alexander Elliot and Rohan Campbell in The Hardy Boys (2020)
    The Hardy Boys
    • stunt performer
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Pretty Hard Cases (2021)
    Pretty Hard Cases
    • stunt coordinator
    • Stunt Coordinator
    • TV Series
    • 2021–2023
  • Kiefer Sutherland in Rabbit Hole (2023)
    Rabbit Hole
    • stunt coordinator
    • TV Series
    • 2023
  • Michael Seater, Isabel Rose Silva, Ashley Leggat, and Marcus Cornwall in Life with Luca (2023)
    Life with Luca
    • stunt coordinator
    • 2023
  • Chucky (2021)
    Chucky
    • stunt performer
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Traci Paige Johnson and Joshua Dela Cruz in Blue's Clues & You (2019)
    Blue's Clues & You
    • stunt coordinator
    • TV Series
    • 2020–2022
  • Pond Life (2022)
    Pond Life
    • stunt coordinator
    • 2022
  • Don't Hang Up (2022)
    Don't Hang Up
    • stunt coordinator
    • 2022
  • Our Ladies of Brooklyn
    • stunt coordinator
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Bradley Cooper, and Rooney Mara in Nightmare Alley (2021)
    Nightmare Alley
    • stunt performer
    • 2021
  • Slasher (2016)
    Slasher
    • key stunt rigger
    • stunt rigger
    • TV Series
    • 2019–2021
  • Night Raiders (2021)
    Night Raiders
    • stunt actor
    • 2021
  • Marium Carvell, Aaron Poole, Nadine Whiteman Roden, J.B. Sugar, Dalmar Abuzeid, Owen Maxwell, Jimmy Ruggiero, Jonathan Langdon, Jaeden Noel, and Eden Cupid in Faith Heist (2021)
    Faith Heist
    • stunt coordinator
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Anya Taylor-Joy in The Queen's Gambit (2020)
    The Queen's Gambit
    • stunt actor
    • stunt coordinator
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2020

Second Unit or Assistant Director

  • Skymed (2022)
    Skymed
    • second unit director
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Pretty Hard Cases (2021)
    Pretty Hard Cases
    • second unit director
    • TV Series
    • 2021–2022
  • Don't Hang Up (2022)
    Don't Hang Up
    • second unit director
    • 2022
  • Marium Carvell, Aaron Poole, Nadine Whiteman Roden, J.B. Sugar, Dalmar Abuzeid, Owen Maxwell, Jimmy Ruggiero, Jonathan Langdon, Jaeden Noel, and Eden Cupid in Faith Heist (2021)
    Faith Heist
    • second unit director
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Books of Blood (2020)
    Books of Blood
    • second unit director
    • 2020
  • Kaya Scodelario in Spinning Out (2020)
    Spinning Out
    • second unit director
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Carla Gugino in Jett (2019)
    Jett
    • second unit director
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Roger Cross, Jodelle Ferland, Anthony Lemke, Zoie Palmer, Melissa O'Neil, and Alex Mallari Jr. in Dark Matter (2015)
    Dark Matter
    • second unit director
    • TV Series
    • 2015–2017
  • Kiefer Sutherland in Designated Survivor (2016)
    Designated Survivor
    • second unit director
    • TV Series
    • 2016–2017
  • Greg Bryk, Laura Vandervoort, Greyston Holt, Michael Xavier, and Steve Lund in Bitten (2014)
    Bitten
    • second unit director
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Dominic Purcell in Ice Soldiers (2013)
    Ice Soldiers
    • second unit director
    • 2013
  • Kris Holden-Ried, Anna Silk, and Ksenia Solo in Lost Girl: An Evening at the Clubhouse (2013)
    Lost Girl: An Evening at the Clubhouse
    • second unit director
    • TV Special
    • 2013
  • Craig Olejnik and Lauren Lee Smith in The Listener (2009)
    The Listener
    • second unit director
    • TV Series
    • 2012–2013
  • Lost Girl
    Lost Girl
    • 2nd unit director
    • second unit director
    • TV Series
    • 2012–2013
  • K.C. Collins, Kris Holden-Ried, Rick Howland, Anna Silk, Ksenia Solo, and Zoie Palmer in Lost Girl: ConFAEdential (2013)
    Lost Girl: ConFAEdential
    • second unit director
    • TV Special
    • 2013

Actor

  • Zachary Levi in Shazam! (2019)
    Shazam!
    • Bus Passenger
    • 2019
  • Mads Mikkelsen in Polar (2019)
    Polar
    • Blut's Army Utility
    • 2019
  • The Bobby Buck Show (2016)
    The Bobby Buck Show
    • Dentist
    • Short
    • 2016
  • Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Helene Joy, Jonny Harris, and Georgina Reilly in Murdoch Mysteries (2008)
    Murdoch Mysteries
    • Bill McCann (uncredited)
    • TV Series
    • 2015
  • Allie MacDonald in Stage Fright (2014)
    Stage Fright
    • Opera Ghost
    • 2014
  • Megan Follows, Rachel Skarsten, and Adelaide Kane in Reign (2013)
    Reign
    • Bruno
    • TV Series
    • 2013
  • Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (2012)
    Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
    • Policeman
    • 2012
  • The Waking (2012)
    The Waking
    • Delivery Man
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Maggie Q in Nikita (2010)
    Nikita
    • Agent Lawrence
    • TV Series
    • 2012
  • Piper Perabo in Covert Affairs (2010)
    Covert Affairs
    • Stunt Compadre #2
    • TV Series
    • 2011
  • Small Town Murder Songs (2010)
    Small Town Murder Songs
    • David
    • 2010
  • Paul Gross in Slings and Arrows (2003)
    Slings and Arrows
    • Macduff
    • John
    • TV Series
    • 2005
  • Vivica A. Fox, Mark Consuelos, and Caterina Scorsone in 1-800-Missing (2003)
    1-800-Missing
    • Bloodied Driver
    • TV Series
    • 2004
  • Prince Charming (2001)
    Prince Charming
    • Tybalt
    • TV Movie
    • 2001
  • George Buza and Zen Gesner in The Adventures of Sinbad (1996)
    The Adventures of Sinbad
    • Ajeeb
    • TV Series
    • 1998

Personal details

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