Craig R. Baxley

Craig R. Baxley

1949-10-20 Los Angeles, California, USA 86 Credits

Biography

Craig Redding Baxley (born October 20, 1949) is an American actor, director, author, and stunt performer. He is best known for his work in the action and thriller genres. Beginning his career as a stunt performer, he was hired to perform stunts in number of notable television series namely Police Story, Harry O, Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, Gemini Man, Roots, M*A*S*H, The Dukes of Hazzard and The A-Team (his head directorial debut). He also worked as a stunt coordinator and second unit director ...

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King on Screen

King on Screen

2023

as Self

6.9
Acting

1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than...

Henchman: The Al Leong Story

Henchman: The Al Leong Story

2018

as Self

Acting

Story of Al Leong, the greatest henchman in film history.

Last of the Independents: Don Siegel and the Making of 'Charley Varrick'

Last of the Independents: Don Siegel and the Making of 'Charley Varrick'

2015

as Self

5.0
Acting

Don Siegel’s classic crime thriller "Charley Varrick," made in 1972 in the wake of the immensely successful "Dirty Harry," stars Walter Matthau in wh...

Aces 'N' Eights

Aces 'N' Eights

2008

Director

6.4
Directing

Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being...

Inside the Lost Room

2007

as Self

4.0
Acting

Making of 'The Lost Room'

Left Behind: World at War

Left Behind: World at War

2005

Director

4.1
Directing

A year and a half ago, the globe was hit with the biggest catastrophe it had ever seen. Without warning and without explanation, hundreds of millions ...

Kingdom Hospital

Kingdom Hospital

2004

Director

6.4
Directing

Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil ...

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

2003

Director

5.4
Directing

Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious mansion as a wedding gift from her new husband...

Sniper 2

Sniper 2

2002

Director

5.5
Directing

A former Marine sniper is lured back in on a top-secret mission to take out a rogue general accused of running a stealth operation of hit-and-run ethn...

The Glow

The Glow

2002

Director

5.2
Directing

A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.

A Touch of Hope

A Touch of Hope

1999

Director

5.0
Directing

Hands-on healer Dean Kraft struggles for many years to come to terms with his abilities and deal with the skepticism of the medical profession.

Chameleon II: Death Match

Chameleon II: Death Match

1999

Director

2.8
Directing

In this sequel to the made-for-TV sci-fi thriller Chameleon, Bobbie Phillips returns as Kam, a beautiful but deadly (and genetically altered) governme...

Silencing Mary

Silencing Mary

1998

Director

4.5
Directing

Frustrated that school officials and police won't punish her university's star football player for raping her roommate, student reporter Mary begins w...

Bad Day on the Block

Bad Day on the Block

1997

Director

5.4
Directing

The heat is at record highs, the air conditioner is broken, the milk has gone bad, the repairman can't find the house... and then there's the neighbor...

Twisted Desire

Twisted Desire

1996

Director, Writer

4.9
Directing Writing

A teenage girl convinces a young, love-struck ex-con that the only way they can be together is to do away with her domineering parents.

Twilight Man

Twilight Man

1995

Director

6.7
Directing

Jordan Cooper, a professor in Durham, has everything going for him. A beautiful girlfriend named Kathy, a good job and a nice place to live. But when ...

The Avenging Angel

The Avenging Angel

1995

Director

5.0
Directing

Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involvin...

Deconstructing Sarah

Deconstructing Sarah

1994

Director

3.0
Directing

Thriller about an advertising executive Kelley who leads a double life, looking for men in dive bars at night. However, when she goes missing, it caus...

Deep Red

Deep Red

1994

Director

4.2
Directing

After a young girl is accidently infected with an alien substance known as "Deep Red", the astonishing results attract the attention of the illustriou...

Sudden Fury

Sudden Fury

1993

Director

5.3
Directing

A teenage boy finds his mother and father murdered in their home but as the story goes on he reveals he knows more than he is letting on.

Revenge on the Highway

Revenge on the Highway

1992

Director

3.2
Directing

At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to se...

Raven: Return of the Black Dragons

Raven: Return of the Black Dragons

1992

Director

Directing

Raven is a ninja, a former member of the Black Dragons clan and also a former Special Forces agent, living in Hawaii, helping those in trouble and sea...

Stone Cold

Stone Cold

1991

Director

6.1
Directing

Joe Huff is a tough, loner cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Huff into an undercover operation that entails i...

Dark Angel

Dark Angel

1990

Director

5.9
Directing

Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Vict...

Action Jackson

Action Jackson

1988

Director

5.5
Directing

Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

Predator

Predator

1987

Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director

7.5
Directing

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

The Renegades

The Renegades

1982

Second Unit Director

6.4
Directing

In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.

Six Pack

Six Pack

1982

Stunt Driver

6.5

Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quick...

The Seduction

The Seduction

1982

Stunt Coordinator

5.3

A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.

Reds

Reds

1981

Second Unit Director, Stunt Coordinator

6.9
Directing

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical co...

Honky Tonk Freeway

Honky Tonk Freeway

1981

Stunts

5.2

Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not ...

Take This Job and Shove It

Take This Job and Shove It

1981

Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director

5.3
Directing

A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.

Wholly Moses

Wholly Moses

1980

Stunt Coordinator

4.7

Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from G...

The Long Riders

The Long Riders

1980

Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director

6.7
Directing

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin the...

All God's Children

All God's Children

1980

Stunt Coordinator

4.0

Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white...

The Top of the Hill

The Top of the Hill

1980

Second Unit Director

Directing

Michael Stone is a rising company executive who decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsl...

Delta Fox

Delta Fox

1979

Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director

2.0
Directing

Woman is kidnaped by hitman who discovers that he is the target of another hitman.

Mind Over Murder

Mind Over Murder

1979

as Bobby

6.0
Acting

A young woman with precognition realizes she is being stalked by a killer -- a mass murderer she previously had used her psychic powers to identify to...

Mind Over Murder

Mind Over Murder

1979

Stunt Coordinator

6.0

A young woman with precognition realizes she is being stalked by a killer -- a mass murderer she previously had used her psychic powers to identify to...

Skatetown, U.S.A.

Skatetown, U.S.A.

1979

Stunts

5.0

A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.

Death Car on the Freeway

Death Car on the Freeway

1979

Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director

5.3
Directing

A determined TV reporter is out to find a maniac who is methodically attacking lone women drivers on the Los Angeles Freeway by pushing them off the r...

Nightwing

Nightwing

1979

Stunts

4.7

Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.

The Warriors

The Warriors

1979

as Punk (Black and Yellow)

7.7
Acting

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader ki...

The Warriors

The Warriors

1979

Stunt Driver

7.7

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader ki...

The Big Fix

The Big Fix

1978

Stunt Driver

5.7

Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is re...

Foul Play

Foul Play

1978

Stunt Double

6.3

A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait

1978

Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director

6.6
Directing

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to...

Zero to Sixty

Zero to Sixty

1978

Stunt Driver

4.7

A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.

The Young Runaways

The Young Runaways

1978

Stunt Driver

6.0

Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their ...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

Stunt Driver

7.3

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is abou...

Fun with Dick and Jane

Fun with Dick and Jane

1977

Stunts

6.5

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Cannonball

Cannonball

1976

Stunt Driver

5.5

Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which ther...

Logan's Run

Logan's Run

1976

Stunts

6.6

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try f...

Demon and the Mummy

Demon and the Mummy

1976

as Staff Sgt. Rolf Anderson

6.0
Acting

The second of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Demon In Lace (about a succubus ...

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

1976

Stunts

7.1

Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff wh...

Rollerball

Rollerball

1975

Stunts

6.3

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy tho...

Lepke

Lepke

1975

Stunts

5.2

Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal ca...

Search for the Gods

Search for the Gods

1975

Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit, Second Unit Director

4.3
Directing

A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.

Shampoo

Shampoo

1975

Stunt Double

6.0

A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic ...

Report to the Commissioner

Report to the Commissioner

1975

Stunts

6.6

Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instr...

The Nickel Ride

The Nickel Ride

1975

Stunts, Stunt Coordinator

5.5

A world-weary crime boss is losing his grip on his organization.

Earthquake

Earthquake

1974

Stunts

6.1

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Nightmare Honeymoon

Nightmare Honeymoon

1974

Stunt Double

5.0

A newlywed couple seek revenge after narrowly surviving a savage attack in rural Louisiana.

99 and 44/100% Dead

99 and 44/100% Dead

1974

Stunts

4.7

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...

The White Dawn

The White Dawn

1974

Stunt Double

6.5

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three st...

Mr. Majestyk

Mr. Majestyk

1974

Stunts

6.8

A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.

The Parallax View

The Parallax View

1974

as C.I.A. Agent - Top of Space Needle (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corpora...

The Parallax View

The Parallax View

1974

Stunt Double

6.8

An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corpora...

Welcome to Arrow Beach

Welcome to Arrow Beach

1974

as Young Driver

5.0
Acting

A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nearby mansion with his sister. The girl soon begins ...

Welcome to Arrow Beach

Welcome to Arrow Beach

1974

Stunt Coordinator

5.0

A hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nearby mansion with his sister. The girl soon begins ...

Planet Earth

Planet Earth

1974

Stunt Driver

5.9

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...

Get Christie Love!

Get Christie Love!

1974

Stunt Driver

5.3

Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a...

Cry Rape

Cry Rape

1973

Stunts

6.7

A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him.

Charley Varrick

Charley Varrick

1973

as Van Sickle

7.4
Acting

Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large ...

Charley Varrick

Charley Varrick

1973

Stunt Driver

7.4

Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large ...

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

1973

Stunts

5.7

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar ...

Charley and the Angel

Charley and the Angel

1973

Stunt Driver

5.3

Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be...

The Outside Man

The Outside Man

1972

Stunts

6.3

A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.

The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure

1972

Stunts

7.1

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

Trouble Man

Trouble Man

1972

Stunts

6.1

It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix thin...

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

1972

Stunts

6.2

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

Ben

Ben

1972

Stunts

6.0

A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.

What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc?

1972

Stunts

7.4

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Diamonds Are Forever

Diamonds Are Forever

1971

Stunts

6.4

Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The missio...

The Sheriff

The Sheriff

1971

Stunt Driver

6.0

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman rape...

Unlocking Rose Red: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

N/A

Director

7.0
Directing