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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

King on Screen
2023
as Self
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
2018
as Self
Story of Al Leong, the greatest henchman in film history.

Last of the Independents: Don Siegel and the Making of 'Charley Varrick'
2015
as Self
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
2008
Director
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
Making of 'The Lost Room'

Left Behind: World at War
2005
Director
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
2004
Director
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
2003
Director
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
2002
Director
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
2002
Director
A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.

A Touch of Hope
1999
Director
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
1999
Director
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
1998
Director
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
1997
Director
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
1996
Director, Writer
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
1995
Director
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
1995
Director
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
1994
Director
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
1994
Director
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
1993
Director
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
1992
Director
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
1992
Director
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
1991
Director
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
1990
Director
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
1988
Director
Vengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.

Predator
1987
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
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
1982
Second Unit Director
In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.

Six Pack
1982
Stunt Driver
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
1982
Stunt Coordinator
A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.

Reds
1981
Second Unit Director, Stunt Coordinator
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
1981
Stunts
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
1981
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.

Wholly Moses
1980
Stunt Coordinator
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
1980
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
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
1980
Stunt Coordinator
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
1980
Second Unit Director
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
1979
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
Woman is kidnaped by hitman who discovers that he is the target of another hitman.

Mind Over Murder
1979
as Bobby
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
1979
Stunt Coordinator
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.
1979
Stunts
A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.

Death Car on the Freeway
1979
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
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
1979
Stunts
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.

The Warriors
1979
as Punk (Black and Yellow)
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
1979
Stunt Driver
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
1978
Stunt Driver
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
1978
Stunt Double
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
1978
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director
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
1978
Stunt Driver
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
1978
Stunt Driver
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
1977
Stunt Driver
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
1977
Stunts
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Cannonball
1976
Stunt Driver
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
1976
Stunts
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
1976
as Staff Sgt. Rolf Anderson
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
1976
Stunts
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
1975
Stunts
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
1975
Stunts
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
1975
Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit, Second Unit Director
A valuable medallion believed to prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times is sought.

Shampoo
1975
Stunt Double
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
1975
Stunts
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
1975
Stunts, Stunt Coordinator
A world-weary crime boss is losing his grip on his organization.

Earthquake
1974
Stunts
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Nightmare Honeymoon
1974
Stunt Double
A newlywed couple seek revenge after narrowly surviving a savage attack in rural Louisiana.

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...

The White Dawn
1974
Stunt Double
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
1974
Stunts
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.

The Parallax View
1974
as C.I.A. Agent - Top of Space Needle (uncredited)
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
1974
Stunt Double
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
1974
as Young Driver
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
1974
Stunt Coordinator
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
1974
Stunt Driver
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!
1974
Stunt Driver
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
1973
Stunts
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
1973
as Van Sickle
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
1973
Stunt Driver
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
1973
Stunts
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
1973
Stunt Driver
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
1972
Stunts
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
1972
Stunts
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

Trouble Man
1972
Stunts
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
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...

Ben
1972
Stunts
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?
1972
Stunts
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Diamonds Are Forever
1971
Stunts
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
1971
Stunt Driver
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