Kerry Rossall
Kerry Rossall is, born 1947.
Read his character names in order and the job explains itself. 2nd Unit Guard. Police Chase Cop. Rooney's Henchman. Trunk Hostage. These are not roles, they are functions, and that is the working life of a stunt performer: you are the body the camera needs to take the impact, and the credit describes what happened to you rather than who you were.
Rossall, born in Los Angeles in 1947, has worked as a stuntman, stunt coordinator, actor and producer. His best-known association is with Apocalypse Now, where he appears on screen as Mike from San Diego, and he later drew three Taurus World Stunt Award nominations connected to Apocalypse Now Redux in 2001. He turned up in They Live, The Crow: City of Angels and Tomorrow You're Gone, and has produced films of his own, including Movin' Too Fast and Friend of the World.
Pages like this one systematically understate people in his trade. Databases record the parts where a stunt performer was given a name and a line, and largely miss the coordination work, the doubling and the second-unit days, which is where the actual career lives. Take the filmography below as the visible edge of something considerably larger.
Movies (6)
TV (1)
Where to start with Kerry Rossall
Apocalypse Now first, obviously, both because it is the film he is most tied to and because the production itself has become as famous as anything in it. He is on screen as Mike from San Diego.
They Live is the fun one for anyone who cares about staged violence, since it contains one of the most notorious fight sequences in eighties cinema and John Carpenter let it run far past the point of reason. The Crow: City of Angels gives him an actual character name, Zeke, which on this filmography counts as a promotion.
For the craft rather than the acting, Road to Perdition and 2 Fast 2 Furious are the studio-scale work, Masterminds the comic one, and Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future the eighties television oddity worth a look on its own merits.