Alan Marcus

Alan Marcus was a stuntman and actor who portrayed Samno in . Marcus filmed his scenes along with fellow stunt actor B.J. Davis as under stunt coordination of Don Pike on Thursday, , Tuesday, , Wednesday, , Friday, , Monday, , Wednesday, , and Friday, on Paramount Stage 8, 9, and 12. He also filmed scenes on second unit on Friday, , along with Davis and Scott Leva on Paramount Stage 13. The first scene Marcus filmed, always listed as "Hitman #2" on the call sheets, was the corridor scene in which his character was found dead.
== Career ==
Marcus started to work in film and television productions in the early 1980s with appearances and stunt work in (1980, with stunts by Ken Lesco and Don Pike), (1980, with Dave Cadiente and stunt coordination by Buddy Joe Hooker), (1981, with Rosalind Chao and stunts by Tony Cecere, Joe Farago, and Mark Riccardi), (1982, with Paul Sorvino and Judson Scott and stunts by Phil Chong), (1982, with Michael Cavanaugh, David Opatoshu, and Bob Minor), (1982), and in episodes of CHiPs (1982, starring Robert Pine, Lou Wagner, and Michael Dorn) and (1983, starring Stephen Collins and Marta Dubois and with Branscombe Richmond).
Marcus worked as stunt coordinator on episodes of (1984), Dangerous Women (1991, starring Valerie Wildman), and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994, with John Marzilli), on (1986, with stunts by Kane Hodder, Bud Davis, Gary Pike, Charlie Skeen, and Bobby Burns), (1988, with stunts by Eddie Braun, Greg Gault, Eddie Hice, Kane Hodder, and Monty Rex Perlin), and the independent film Hollywood Chaos (1989, stunts by Ed Anders).
Further stunt work include (1983, with Robert Beltran and stunts by Simone Boisseree, Al Jones, and Gary Wayton), (1983, stunt coordination by B.J. Davis), (1984, with Kim Cattrall, Tony Plana, Kane Hodder, Brian J. Williams, and Gene LeBell), (1985, with Louise Sorel), Nicholas Meyer's (1985), (1985, with Richard Lynch, Stephen Markle, Nick Ramus, Maria Doest, and stunts by B.J. Davis, Al Jones, Eric Norris, Don Ruffin, and Lincoln Simonds), (1986), (1986), (1987, with Hilary Shepard Turner), (1987), (1987), (1987, with Michael Nouri), (1988), (1988), and (1988, with Kane Hodder, Craig Thomas, and stunts by Maria Kelly) for which he auditioned together with Kane Hodder. About his work with Marcus, Hodder remembered:
:Also present was stuntman Alan Marcus, Hodder's friend and co-worker, who was at least partly responsible for some of the livelier moments on the Part VII set. "Alan doubled for Kevin Blair and another actor, and then at the end of the show, he’s the last one I kill. He did a number of good stunts," praises Hodder. "I was doing one stunt with Alan in which he's on the end of the pier. I have to grab him and throw him backwards off the end of the pier, and he has to land in a rowboat. The cameras were in the rowboat and in the boat next to it. The way things were positioned, everyone was concerned that he wouldn't go far enough to make it into the boat. So I told him to really make sure he went far enough. When we did it the first time, he went so far that he landed between the two cameras in the boat, and they missed the shot. It could've been bad, but it turned out pretty funny". 
Marcus also worked as stuntman on (1989, with Miguel Ferrer, Matt McCoy, and stunts by Eugene Collier, Maria Kelly, and Kane Hodder), (1990, with stunts by Gary Baxley, Chuck Borden, Jeff Bornstein, George Colucci, Chris Doyle, Dennis Madalone, and Patricia Tallman), the comedy 9 1/2 Ninjas! (1991), the action film Killing Streets (1991), (1991), the horror comedy Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1991), (1992, with Scott Burkholder, Ned Romero, Annie O'Donnell, Steve Vinovich, and Kane Hodder), (1992, starring Terri Garr), (1993, with Raphael Sbarge), the television series Final Appeal: From the Files of Unsolved Mysteries (1992), (1992, with Dey Young, Maria Kelly, and Kane Hodder), (1993, with Kane Hodder), (1993), (1995), and more recently (2010, with Corbin Bernsen, B.J. Davis, Marty Murray, and Spice Williams).
In 2014, Marcus announced that he would work as writer and producer on ' family movie Precious Cargo, as stunt coordinator on the crime comedy Bristled, and on the horror film Room and Board. All three films were still in pre-production as of January 2015, but Marcus' involvement wouldn't be possible. According to his close friend and fellow stunt actor Kane Hodder, Marcus passed away in the night of Friday to Saturday, on 9 January 2015. 
== External links ==
*
*
de:Alan Marcus
es:Alan Marcus
Category:Stunt performers
Category:Performers
Category:Film performers