Stewart Bethune

Stewart Bethune is a former location manager turned into production manager who worked with Helen Pollak as Production Manager on . 
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Bethune attended the University of Calgary between 1978 and 1983 where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science and economics. During this time, he worked as skier/model for television and print ads such as Lexus, Panorama Ski Resort, and Via Rail. Bethune's first steps in the entertainment industry include acting in a supporting role in the television drama A Letter to Three Wives (1985, with Hagan Beggs and Karen Austin), working as production assistant on (1985, with Ray Wise, Matthew Faison, and Hagan Beggs, stunts by Paula Moody, and music by James Horner), and working as third assistant director on (1986, starring Bruce Greenwood).
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bethune worked as location manager on projects including the television movie Vanishing Act (1986, with Graham Jarvis), the television series Disneyland (1986) and Airwolf (1987), the television drama Deep Dark Secrets (1987), (1988, with Kerrie Keane), (1989, with Eve Smith), (1990, with Jeff Corey, John Pyper-Ferguson, Clyde Kusatsu, and Maria Leone), and (1994, music by John Debney).
Specialized in wilderness films, Bethune started to work as unit manager for the official film of the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988. Further work as unit manager/production manager include (1990), (1992, with Brett Cullen), (1993, with W. Morgan Sheppard), (1995), (1996), (1998), (1998-1999), (1999), (2001, with Anton Yelchin and Billy Burke), (2001), (2002, with Nichelle Nichols), and (2002, with Alice Krige and Alexander Siddig).
Bethune also worked as production manager on (2003, directed by Bryan Singer and with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Bruce Davison), (2004), (2005, produced by Ralph Winter and Stan Lee), (2006, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Kelsey Grammer, with Shohreh Aghdashloo, Chelah Horsdal, Julian Christopher, and John Pyper-Ferguson), (2007, with Doug Jones and Zach Grenier), (2008, with Peter Mensah), and (2009, with Patrick Stewart).
More recently, Bethune worked as production manager on (2010, with Maury Sterling, Alex Madison, Ben Bray, Jimmy Ortega, and Dwight Schultz), (2011, with Simon Pegg and produced by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, and Jeffrey Chernov), (2013, with Dwayne Johnson and Joe Chrest), and (2015, written and produced by Damon Lindelof, produced by Jeffrey Chernov, music by Michael Giacchino, and production design by Scott Chambliss).
Stewart Bethune is also the only Production Manager who has worked on three different productions where three stunt performers were killed on-set. The thriller Firestorm (1998), The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998-1999), and  (2018), where two stunt performers, Keith Perepelkin, Joi Harris and stunt coordinator Marc Akerstream all died. He was not charged in any of deaths.
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