Biography
John Anthony Epper (October 1, 1938 – July 20, 2012) was an American actor and stuntman. He was a member of the Epper family, whose members work as actors and stunt performers. Members include his sister, stuntwoman Jeannie Epper, and his late brothers, Gary Epper and Andy Epper.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Fire Down Below
1997
Stunts
When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack Taggart is sent in—posing as a handyman working wit...

Con Air
1997
Stunts
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" takin...

Gone Fishin'
1997
Stunts
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.

Volcano
1997
Stunts
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins ...

Judge and Jury
1997
Stunts
An electrocuted killer returns from the dead to take revenge on the authorities who caught him.

Johns
1996
as Santa Claus
It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night a...

Jingle All the Way
1996
Stunts
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposi...

The Glimmer Man
1996
Stunts
A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in t...

The Rich Man's Wife
1996
Stunts
A rich man's wife finds she has a bad prenuptial agreement with an even worse husband. Over drinks with a stranger, she fantasizes about doing her hus...

The Rock
1996
Stunts
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into Sa...

The Sunchaser
1996
as Hay Hauler
A young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.

Spy Hard
1996
Stunts
The evil Gen. Rancor has his sights set on world domination, and only one man can stop him: Dick Steele, also known as Agent WD-40. Rancor needs to ob...

Executive Decision
1996
Stunts
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) s...

Money Train
1995
Stunts
When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.

Waterworld
1995
Stunts
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floati...

The Good Old Boys
1995
as Melvin the Goon
An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.

The River Wild
1994
Stunts
Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th...

In the Army Now
1994
Stunts
Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman, two misguided youths, join the reserves to make some easy money for their entrepreneurial dreams. Unfortunately, no soo...

Extreme Justice
1993
Stunts
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop...

Joshua Tree
1993
as Transport Guard #1
A Los Angeles police detective tracks a fugitive who heads for the desert with a deputy sheriff as hostage.

Trouble Bound
1993
Stunts
Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together with them again, and tells them he's not interested in doing t...

Forever Young
1992
Stunts
A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that ...

Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
Stunts
In 19th century England, Count Dracula travels to London and meets Mina Harker, a young woman who appears as the reincarnation of his lost love.

Patriot Games
1992
Stunts
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Lethal Weapon 3
1992
Stunts
Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition t...

White Sands
1992
Stunts
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigat...

American Me
1992
Stunts
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana ...

Thelma & Louise
1991
Stunts
Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumsta...

Driving Me Crazy
1991
Stunts
An eccentric East German inventor and defector travels to Los Angeles, California to sell a prototype revolutionary new car that runs on vegetables an...

Servants of Twilight
1991
Stunts
Based on the novel by Dean R. Koontz, this action packed thriller features Bruce Greenwood as a private detective hired to protect a little boy from a...

Kid
1990
Stunt Coordinator
A young man (the 'Kid') returns to the small town where his parents were murdered when he was a boy. He's there for revenge. Locals Kate and Louie bef...

Don't Tell Her It's Me
1990
as Gas Station Thug
Gus is a fat cartoonist that recently won a battle against cancer, which explains his baldness. But he is also lonely. Therefore, his caring sister tr...

Gypsy Angels
1990
as Bouncer
Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.

Gypsy Angels
1990
Stunt Coordinator
Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash.

Dick Tracy
1990
as Steve the Tramp
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca...

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989
as Bozo #1
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and th...

Homer and Eddie
1989
as Gas Station Attendant
A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.

Lethal Weapon 2
1989
Stunts
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Road House
1989
Stunts
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look l...

All's Fair
1989
Stunt Coordinator
To relax, a group of stressed-out executives go to the country for a weekend to play war games.

Kidnapped
1988
Stunts
A woman's sister is kidnapped on her 16th Birthday and forced into filming pornography. A policeman helps the woman rescue her teenage sister from the...

Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge
1987
as Farnum McCloud
Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins", is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there around twe...

Shy People
1987
as Jake
A Cosmo Magazine journalist and her daughter leave New York City to visit their distant relatives deep in the bayous of Louisiana.

Nightforce
1987
Stunts
Carla is devastated when her friend is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel. After going to her father, a U.S. Senator, she gets her friends, and arms, to cr...

Outrageous Fortune
1987
as Russell
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actre...

Vendetta
1986
Stunts
A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.

Thrashin'
1986
Stunt Coordinator
Corey and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they're more interested in girls and having fun on their boards than in getting into...

Condor
1986
as 2nd Cop
In futuristic Los Angeles, a crime-fighting organization known as Condor goes up against the Black Widow, a female master criminal. The Black Widow st...

Hamburger: The Motion Picture
1986
as Biker Gang Leader
Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance at education and satisfyin...

Hamburger: The Motion Picture
1986
Stunts
Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance at education and satisfyin...

The Hitcher
1986
as Trooper Conners
On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a ...

To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
Stunts
When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counter...

Beverly Hills Cop
1984
Stunts
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, ...

The Wild Life
1984
as Redneck Drunk #1
Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.

Airwolf: The Movie
1984
Stunts
Airwolf is capable of supersonic speeds, invisible to radar and armed with ultra state-of-the-art hardware. Airwolf is the most awesome aerial weapon ...

National Lampoon's Vacation
1983
Stunts
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.

The Beastmaster
1982
as Jun Leader
Dar, is the son of a king, who's hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is mur...

The Sword and the Sorcerer
1982
Stunts
A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage when he is recruited to help a princess foil a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorce...

Sizzle
1981
as Bobby
A sultry nightclub singer, a small-town girl in the big city, sets out to avenge her boyfriend's murder after he is killed while running illegal booze...

Just Before Dawn
1981
Stunts
In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some ...

Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981
Stunt Double
In nineteenth century Oklahoma, two teen girls, fans of stories about outlaws, are on a quest to meet and join up with them. They find a shadow of a f...

Cutter's Way
1981
as Guard #2
Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Cutter's Way
1981
Stunts
Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

More Wild Wild West
1980
as Juanita's Brother
Robert Conrad and Ross Martin reprise their roles as Secret Service agents of the 1890s.

For the Love of It
1980
as Warren
An entrepreneur discovers a Russian plan for taking over the Middle East. He wants to use it to create a new video game but the KGB, the CIA and the F...

1941
1979
Stunts
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
1979
as Charlie Montgomery
A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a ...

Tilt
1979
Stunts
Tilt is the story of a precocious young girl who is a pinball wizard. Because she does not get on with her parents, Tilt is contemplating running away...

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
as Drunk
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war followi...

Every Which Way but Loose
1978
Stunts
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound ora...

Hooper
1978
Stunts
Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop paink...

Corvette Summer
1978
Stunts
Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searc...

FM
1978
Stunts
When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the protests of its manager, the rebellious DJs are determined...

Bound for Glory
1976
Stunts
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering th...

The Master Gunfighter
1975
Stunts
Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as h...

The Towering Inferno
1974
Stunts
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
Stunts
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's e...

Planet Earth
1974
Stunts
The time: the 22nd century. The place: the Confederacy, a matriarchy where men are enslaved and impotent. The hero: Dylan Hunt, a handsome, vigorous 2...

Ulzana's Raid
1972
as Trooper
A report reaches the US Army Cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, L...

Ulzana's Raid
1972
Stunt Double, Stunts
A report reaches the US Army Cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, L...

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972
Stunts
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, an...

The Cowboys
1972
as Rustler
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to ge...

Valdez Is Coming
1971
as Bodyguard
Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon ...

Valdez Is Coming
1971
Stunts
Old Mexican-American sheriff Bob Valdez has always been a haven of sanity in a land of madmen when it came to defending law and order. But the weapon ...

Hitched
1971
Stunt Coordinator
The adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West.

Lawman
1971
Stunts
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a st...

Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970
Stunt Double
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.

Rio Lobo
1970
Stunts
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
1969
Stunts
An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurped by a younger, but incompetent Marshal, and a yo...

The Gay Deceivers
1969
as Vince
Two men try to avoid military service by pretending to be gay, but they must act the part when the recruiting officer doesn't buy it.

The Wild Bunch
1969
Stunts
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

The Scalphunters
1968
as Scalphunter
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegad...

The Scalphunters
1968
Stunts, Stunt Coordinator
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegad...

Planet of the Apes
1968
Stunts
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds him...

The Professionals
1966
Stunts
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

The War Lord
1965
Stunts
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the ...

The Hallelujah Trail
1965
Stunts
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local ...