# Jack Gill (stuntman)

Jack Gill is an American stuntman and second unit director. He is best known for being second unit director (alongside Spiro Razatos) on the Fast and Furious series starting with Fast Five (2011).

## Life and career

Gill started his stunt career in 1982 on the film First Blood before moving into second unit directing on the 1995 film Money Train. Gill has cited Hal Needham as his inspiration to enter the stunt world.
In 1997, he co-wrote and directed The Projector, which starred Matt McColm, Ron Perlman, and John Rhys-Davies.
In 2011, he and Spiro Razatos were hired to respectively serve as stunt coordinator and second unit director on Fast Five: Rio Heist. They later returned to work on the sequels starting with Fast & Furious 6, with Gill helping Razatos with second unit directing on Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and Fast X (2023).
In 2014, he directed second unit on the 2014 film Ride Along and then returned to work on the 2016 sequel Ride Along 2.
Other films he has directed second unit on include Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Wild Hogs, Drillbit Taylor, The Hangover Part III, Date Night, The Watch, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, and Last Holiday.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Stunts | Second unit director | Director |
| 1982 | First Blood | Yes | No | Ted Kotcheff |
| 1984 | Cannonball Run II | Yes | No | Hal Needham |
| 1987 | Beverly Hills Cop II | Yes | No | Tony Scott |
| 1989 | Turner & Hooch | Yes | No | Roger Spottiswoode |
| 1991 | Hook | Yes | No | Steven Spielberg |
| 1995 | Money Train | Yes | Yes | Joseph Ruben |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker | Yes | No | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1999 | Dudley Do-Right | Yes | Yes | Hugh Wilson |
| 2000 | Miss Congeniality | Yes | No | Donald Petrie |
| 2001 | Pearl Harbor | Yes | No | Michael Bay |
| 2002 | Big Fat Liar | Yes | No | Shawn Levy |
| 2002 | Austin Powers in Goldmember | Yes | Yes | Jay Roach |
| 2003 | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | Yes | Yes | Donald Petrie |
| 2003 | Daredevil | Yes | No | Mark Steven Johnson |
| 2003 | Bad Boys II | Yes | No | Michael Bay |
| 2003 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Yes | No | Joe Dante |
| 2003 | The Cat in the Hat | Yes | Yes | Bo Welch |
| 2004 | The Day After Tomorrow | Yes | No | Roland Emmerich |
| 2004 | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | Yes | No | Adam McKay |
| 2004 | Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie | Yes | No | Adam McKay |
| 2005 | Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | Yes | Yes | John Pasquin |
| 2006 | Last Holiday | Yes | Yes | Wayne Wang |
| 2006 | Just My Luck | Yes | Yes | Donald Petrie |
| 2006 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Yes | No | Adam McKay |
| 2006 | Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | Yes | No | Liam Lynch |
| 2007 | Wild Hogs | Yes | Yes | Walt Becker |
| 2007 | Rush Hour 3 | Yes | No | Brett Ratner |
| 2008 | Drillbit Taylor | Yes | Yes | Steven Brill |
| 2009 | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Yes | Yes | Paul Weitz |
| 2009 | My Life in Ruins | No | Yes | Donald Petrie |
| 2010 | Date Night | Yes | Yes | Shawn Levy |
| 2010 | The Other Guys | Yes | No | Adam McKay |
| 2010 | Country Strong | Yes | No | Shana Feste |
| 2011 | The Green Hornet | Yes | No | Michael Gondry |
| 2011 | Fast Five | Yes | No | Justin Lin |
| 2011 | The Change-Up | Yes | Yes | David Dobkin |
| 2012 | The Watch | Yes | Yes | Akiva Schaffer |
| 2013 | The Hangover Part III | Yes | Yes | Todd Phillips |
| 2014 | Ride Along | Yes | Yes | Tim Story |
| 2014 | Black & White: The Dawn of Justice | Yes | Yes | Tsai Yueh-Hsui |
| 2015 | Furious 7 | Yes | Yes | James Wan |
| 2016 | Ride Along 2 | Yes | Yes | Tim Story |
| 2016 | Passengers | Yes | Yes | Morten Tyldum |
| 2017 | Fate of the Furious | Yes | Yes | F. Gary Gray |
| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Yes | Yes | Jake Kasdan |
| 2018 | Venom | Yes | No | Ruben Fleischer |
| 2020 | Bad Boys For Life | Yes | No | Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah |
| 2023 | Fast X | Yes | Yes | Louis Leterrier |