Biography
Charles F. Stahelski (born September 20, 1968) is an American stuntman, stunt actor, and filmmaker. He is considered a highly influential figure in the action film genre. He first achieved prominence as a stunt performer and coordinator, notably as the key stunt double for Keanu Reeves on The Matrix (1999) and as the martial arts stunt coordinator on its first two sequels. He subsequently directed the 2014 film John Wick, starring Reeves, and its three sequels. Description above from the Wikipe...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Wicked Game
2026
Producer
An electrifying thrill-ride is unfolding with propulsive energy, unexpected twists and breathtaking action.

Ballerina
2025
Producer
Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.

Wick Is Pain
2025
as Self
Witness the never-before-seen footage and true story behind the John Wick phenomenon – from independent film to billion-dollar franchise.

Wick Is Pain
2025
Executive Producer
Witness the never-before-seen footage and true story behind the John Wick phenomenon – from independent film to billion-dollar franchise.

Keanu Reeves: The One and Only
2024
as Himself
The story of Keanu Reeves, from a turbulent upbringing to becoming not only one of the most beloved actors in the world, but also one of the most belo...

Albert Pyun: King of Cult Movies
2023
as Self
Albert Pyun: King of Cult Movies tells the story of a true renegade and his love for filmmaking, a free spirit who always did Hollywood his way despit...

John Wick: Chapter 4
2023
Producer, Director
With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face ...

Day Shift
2022
Producer
An LA vampire hunter has a week to come up with the cash to pay for his kid's tuition and braces. Trying to make a living these days just might kill h...

The Matrix Resurrections
2021
as Chad
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2020
Second Unit Director
Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare di...

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
2019
Director, Executive Producer
Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member o...

Deadpool 2
2018
Stunts
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.

Baby Driver
2017
Thanks
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

Chamber Check: Evolution of a Fight Scene
2017
as Self
More fight choreography footage and in fact seems to be documenting more than one fight scene, unless one simply takes the entire film as one long ext...

Friends, Confidantes: The Keanu/Chad Partnership
2017
as Self
An appealing look at the longstanding friendship between the two (Stahelski was Reeves' stunt double before going into directing).
As Above, So Below: The Underworld of 'John Wick'
2017
as Self
A close look at the assassin's lifestyle in the film.

John Wick Chapter 2: Wick-vizzed
2017
as Self
A candid look at rehearsal footage in support of a focus on pre-viz.

John Wick: Chapter 2
2017
Director, Executive Producer
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oat...

Captain America: Civil War
2016
Second Unit Director
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarize...

Grimsby
2016
Second Unit Director
Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plo...

Hitman: Agent 47
2015
Action Director
An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry
2015
as Self
Short documentary that looks at a number of elements like the initial pitch for the project and the 2nd Unit action sequences.

Don't F*#% With John Wick
2015
as Self
Behind the scenes look at fight choreography and action training.

John Wick
2014
Director
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they mu...

Escape Plan
2013
Second Unit Director
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival...

The Wolverine
2013
Stunts
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.

Man of Tai Chi
2013
Martial Arts Choreographer
In Beijing, a young martial artist's skill places him in position to experience opportunities and sacrifices.

After Earth
2013
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Ra...

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
as Self - Second Unit Director
A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and ma...

The Expendables 2
2012
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge put...

Safe
2012
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, th...

The Hunger Games
2012
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to comp...

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2011
Second Unit Director, Stunt Coordinator
There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of ...

Killer Elite
2011
Stunt Coordinator
Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime men...

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
2011
Stunts
Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. Retired spy M...

The Mechanic
2011
as Vaughn's Bodyguard (uncredited)
Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of ...

TRON: Legacy
2010
Stunt Coordinator
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a myste...

Faster
2010
Stunts
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.

Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables'
2010
as Self
Sylvester Stallone's 90-minute video diary, covering the making of "The Expendables".

The Expendables
2010
Stunt Coordinator
Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons special...

Rambo: To Hell and Back - Director's Production Diary
2010
as Self
Structured as a complete production diary of the 42-day shooting schedule, this supplement can be played in its entirety or easily broken down over th...

Iron Man 2
2010
Utility Stunts
With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the p...

The Odds
2010
Stunt Coordinator
A couple of Las Vegas police officers live a life almost as wild as the crimes they investigate.

Ninja Assassin
2009
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer...

X-Men Origins: Wolverine
2009
Stunts
After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolve...

Speed Racer
2008
Stunt Coordinator
Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the poli...

Jumper
2008
Stunts
David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to anywhere on Earth. When he discovers oth...

Rambo
2008
Stunt Coordinator
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian ...

Balls of Fury
2007
Fight Choreographer
Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling deb...

Live Free or Die Hard
2007
as Terrorist (uncredited)
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists i...

Live Free or Die Hard
2007
Stunts
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists i...

Next
2007
as US Marine (uncredited)
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underw...

Next
2007
Stunts
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underw...

Fetch
2007
as Sunny
John 'Fetch' Fetcher is on the case. They said it would be easy. It's never easy.

Fetch
2007
Executive Producer, Stunts
John 'Fetch' Fetcher is on the case. They said it would be easy. It's never easy.

300
2007
Stunt Coordinator
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against t...

Beerfest
2006
Stunt Coordinator
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing...

V for Vendetta
2006
as Storm Saxon
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive B...

V for Vendetta
2006
Stunts Coordinator
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive B...

Serenity
2005
Stunt Coordinator
When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless mil...

Thumbsucker
2005
Stunt Double
Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using...

The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
Stunt Double
Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from bein...

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005
Utility Stunts
A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignm...

xXx: State of the Union
2005
Stunts
Darius Stone's criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S. governmen...

Constantine
2005
as Demon in Hospital (uncredited)
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their in...

Constantine
2005
Fight Choreographer
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their in...

Max Havoc: Curse Of The Dragon
2004
Stunt Coordinator
A former kickboxer returns to his fighting ways when he encounters a gang in Guam.

Spider-Man 2
2004
Stunts
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves th...

Van Helsing
2004
Fight Choreographer
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna ...

Switchfoot Live in San Diego
2004
as Himself
San Diego's genre-busting rules-breaking rock band took the stage at the fabled punk rock venue Soma to give the group's hardcore hometown fans the ki...

The Matrix Revolutions
2003
Stunt Coordinator
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing t...

The Matrix Reloaded
2003
Stunt Coordinator
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from...

Dead Above Ground
2002
Stunts
Jeff Lucas is already an outcast, but when he makes a horror film instead of a documentary for his class project, the ridicule his classmates inflict ...

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
2002
as Masked Fighter
A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1...

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
2002
Stunts
A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1...

The Matrix Revisited
2001
as Self - Stuntman (archive footage)
The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.

Corky Romano
2001
Stunts
Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to inf...

Rock Star
2001
Stunts
A wannabe rock star who fronts a Pennsylvania-based tribute band is devastated when his bandmates kick him out of the group he founded. Things begin t...

Ghosts of Mars
2001
Stunts
In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find the post deserted a...

Tomcats
2001
Stunts
College buddies chip in and promise that the group's last unmarried man will collect a cash pot. Seven years later, the kitty is worth $500,000 -- mon...

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
2000
Stunts
A Hollywood film executive gets blackmailed by a derelict who uses some damaging information to move into his house and take over his perfect life for...

The Replacements
2000
Stunt Double
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that im...

Picking Up the Pieces
2000
Stunts
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband...

The Gift
2000
Stunts
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see....

Wild Wild West
1999
Stunts
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: ...

The Matrix
1999
Stunt Double
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful co...

8MM
1999
Stunts
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the he...

My Favorite Martian
1999
Stunts
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a P...

Vampires
1998
as Male Master #4
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist...

CHiPs '99
1998
Stunts
Ponch has returned to the police force, and is determined to help his friend Jon investigating various car thefts.

Orgazmo
1998
Stunts
A devout Mormon living in L.A. becomes a pornographic actor after his martial arts moves impress a big-time director.

Almost Heroes
1998
Stunts
Two hapless explorers lead an ill-fated 1804 expedition through the Pacific Northwest in a hopeless, doomed effort to reach the Pacific Ocean before L...

Recoil
1998
as Henchman (uncredited)
Detective Ray Morgan accidentally kills the son of a mob boss. The mob boss orders to have Morgan killed unknowing that the assassin killed Morgan's w...

Recoil
1998
Stunts
Detective Ray Morgan accidentally kills the son of a mob boss. The mob boss orders to have Morgan killed unknowing that the assassin killed Morgan's w...

The Hunted
1998
as FBI Agent #2
Jake, an ex-Motocross champion, is set up for a crime he has not committed. He now finds himself running from the government, and must find the man wh...

The Hunted
1998
Stunt Coordinator
Jake, an ex-Motocross champion, is set up for a crime he has not committed. He now finds himself running from the government, and must find the man wh...

Alien Resurrection
1997
Stunts, Stunt Double
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises...

Perfect Target
1997
Stunts
A soldier now a mercenary, has been brought to a foreign country by a former associate to aid in the security of that country's president. But it appe...

Bean
1997
Stunts
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him f...

True Vengeance
1997
Fight Choreographer
An ex-naval intelligence officer is forced to assassinate a CEO when his daughter is kidnapped by the Yakuza.

Bloodsport III
1996
as Max Omega
Bloodsport III brings us back to the world of Alex Cardo. This time he must battle in a fight to end all fights - The Kumite, the most vicious warrior...

Bloodsport III
1996
Fight Choreographer
Bloodsport III brings us back to the world of Alex Cardo. This time he must battle in a fight to end all fights - The Kumite, the most vicious warrior...

Riot
1996
Stunts
An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot on Christmas Eve.

The Glimmer Man
1996
as Carjacker / Thug (uncredited)
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...

Escape from L.A.
1996
Stunts
Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

Nemesis 3: Time Lapse
1996
as Nebula
In this wasteland of despair the path to redemption is not clear. But Alex – a mutant created with super human DNA – carries the seed of hope for all ...

Bloodsport II
1996
as Fighter
After thief Alex Cardo gets caught while stealing an ancient katana in East Asia, he soon finds himself imprisoned and beaten up by the crowd there. O...

Nemesis 2: Nebula
1995
as Nebula
It has been 73 years since Alex failed and the Humans lost the Cyborg Wars. Since then, the Humans have been enslaved. Scientists have developed a new...

Heatseeker
1995
as Budokam Fighter
A kickboxing champion is forced to fight cyborgs in a tournament when the company kidnaps his fiancee.

Fist of the North Star
1995
Stunts
From the immensely popular FIST OF THE NORTH STAR comic book series, comes a new hero. The fate of mankind rests with superhuman warrior Kenshiro who ...

Spitfire
1995
as Whit
A sultry assassin is the target of two separate operatives in this globe-trotting action flick shot on location in the Bahamas, Athens, Rome and Hong ...

The Feminine Touch
1995
Stunts
Jenny Baron is a beautiful investigative reporter swept into a deadly conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the government. When she is ass...

Hong Kong 97
1994
as Leong
Hong Kong 97 takes place in Hong Kong right before the transfer of power from Britain to China. Reginald Cameron, an assassin affiliated with a large ...

The Crow
1994
Stunt Double
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a...

Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993
Stunts
A professional model, Sam Crain, is asked by her sister to smuggle a package from Europe to Portland Oregon, where she discovers that her sister is ba...

Knights
1993
Stunts
In the future, as a result of devastating wars, all suitable for cultivation of land turned into one big lifeless desert. In the search of fertile lan...

Mission of Justice
1992
as The Gauntlet
Mayoral candidate Dr. Rachel Larkin has a dangerous plan for swift justice in the form of a band of ex-convicts, called the Peacemakers, who roam the ...

2nd Unit: Invisible Action Stars
N/A
as Self
A detailed look into a key element of action filmmaking, the second unit. We go behind the scenes and allow some of the biggest names in Hollywood to ...
Highlander
N/A
Producer, Director
An immortal Scottish swordsman faces off with other immortal warriors in order to obtain a coveted ability; Mortality.
Rainbow Six
N/A
Director, Executive Producer
An adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel. Plot TBA.

Bella
N/A
Producer
During a 1980s crime wave, a cop’s daughter goes on a rampage to unearth her father’s attempted assassin and weed out deep-rooted corruption in the Ne...
From the World of John Wick: Caine
N/A
Producer
A Hong Kong-style action thriller, following the events of “John Wick: Chapter 4". Plot TBA.

Analog
N/A
Director, Producer
In the aftermath of the Great Doxxing; a situation that removed internet security and given rise to armed couriers who transport sensitive information...
Snow Ponies
N/A
Executive Producer
A crew of seven hardened men travel across a vicious landscape to deliver a mysterious package. Met by murderous bandits and brutal obstacles at every...
Loose Cannons
N/A
Producer
Two unhinged police officers are forced to partner up after their precincts merge, and they take on cases no one else can handle.
Karoshi
N/A
Producer
Plot TBA. Described as a corporate thriller with a samurai twist. Set in a Japanese-influenced New York City and features a revenge element.
The Man from Nowhere
N/A
Producer
A remake of the South Korean film, which followed a quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past who takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope o...
The Professionals
N/A
Producer
Described as 'a combustible mix of Clue and John Wick', a group of contract killers are stranded in an English countryside estate when one of them is ...
Sifu
N/A
Producer
Live-action adaptation of Sifu, a third person action game featuring intense hand-to-hand combat. Follows a young Kung-Fu student on a path of revenge...

John Wick: Chapter 5
N/A
Producer, Director
The fifth entry in the main John Wick series.
Untitled Animated John Wick Prequel
N/A
Producer
An animated prequel following John Wick killing all of his rivals in one night to free himself from the High Table
Sentinel
N/A
Producer
A blue-collar mechanic who finds himself on the run in an unforgiving wilderness hunted by a killer, a ruthless drone gone rogue, after he witnesses t...
Untitled Ballerina Sequel
N/A
Producer
Sequel to the 2025 John Wick spin-off Ballerina. Plot TBA.