Carl Ciarfalio

Carl Ciarfalio is a stuntman, stunt actor and stunt coordinator who performed stunts in episodes of and . He worked as stunt double for actor Jorge Cervera, Jr. in the sixth season episode .
Ciarfalio was born in Alhambra, California, USA and started his career as a college wrestler and football player before being hired as stuntman for Knott's Berry Farm and Universal Studios western shows between 1974 and 1985. He received his Screen Actors Guild card in 1978 while working on the film Do It in the Dirt and his AFTRA card while working on the television show Soap. He won a Stuntman Award in the category Best Fight Sequence (Television) in 1985 for his work on the television series Knight Rider. He became a member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures in 1985 and served as its president between 1992 and 1996. Ciarfalio also served at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Board of Governors for two terms and as governor of the Stunt Peer Group.
Ciarfalio has doubled for actors such as Alex Karras (1984 in Against All Odds), Voyo Goric (1990 in Lionheart), Beau Starr (1993 in Joshua Tree), and Joe Pingue (2010 in The Book of Eli). On television, he appeared in episodes of The Fall Guy (1984, with Matt McColm), (1985), (1986, with Bob Minor), Misfits of Science (1986, with Kevin Peter Hall and Gene LeBell), Mike Hammer (1986, with Richard E. Butler), (1986, with Vince Deadrick, Jr.), The Golden Girls (1987), Sledge Hammer! (1987), (1988, with Ron Perlman), (1988), (1988-1989, with Allan Graf and Jimmy Ortega), (1991), (1992, with Frank Lloyd, David Michael Graves, and Denney Pierce), (1992, with Greg Barnett), (1995, with Branscombe Richmond), (1996, with Terry Jackson), Baywatch Nights (1996, with Doc Duhame and Don McGovern), Dark Skies (1997), (1997), Babylon 5 (1998, with Bill Mumy, Andreas Katsulas, Vince Deadrick, Jr., Bill Blair, and Gary Wayton), (2000), (1993-2000), J.J. Abrams' (2002, with Shauna Duggins), (2002, with Noon Orsatti), , (2002, with Eddy Donno, Tony Donno, and Katie Rowe), The Agency (2003, with Craig Baxley, Jr.), (2004, with Charlie Brewer), 2006, with Ian Quinn, Brian Avery, and Anthony Molinari), (2007), (2011, with Henry Kingi, Jr. and Paul Lacovara), and The Mentalist (2011).
Other television series he performed stunts on include Just Shoot Me!, , , , , , , B.J. and the Bear, , , , , , Fame, , , , General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Flash, Ellen, , , She Spies, , , Civil Wars, Day of Our Lives, Civil War, and Max Headroom.
Among his over two-hundred film credits are (1982, with Johnny C. Meier, Tim Culbertson, Gilbert Combs, Chris Doyle, and Glenn R. Wilder), (1987), (1989), (1991), (1991), opposite in (1992), (1993, with Gary Cole, Clyde Kusatsu, Michael Zurich, Lena Banks, Robert Buckingham, Elizabeth Pengson, Robin Morselli, Sharon Schaffer, and Denise Lynne Roberts), (1994, with Jay Underwood, Michael Bailey Smith, Denney Pierce, Jeff Pruitt, Merritt Yohnka, Spiro Razatos, and Jeff Cadiente), (1994), (1995, starring Tony Todd), (1995), (1997), (1999), (1999, with Jeff Imada), (2000, with James Lew), (2003), and (2009, directed by Jimmy Nickerson and with Henry Kingi, Sr.).
Ciarfalio also performed stunts in (1985), (1986), (1988), (1988, with Tom Morga and George P. Wilbur), (1989), (1990), (1992), (1992), (1993), (1993, starring Whoopi Goldberg), (1994), (1994), (1995), (1997), (1998, with Marjean Holden and Steve Blalock), (2001), (2002), (2003), (2003), (2004), (2006), (2009, with Stacey Carino and Oliver Keller), and (2011).
As stunt coordinator, he created action scenes for Drifting School (1995, with Red Horton, Marlene Sosebee, and Chester E. Tripp III), Leaving the Land (2002, with Clint Howard), (2001-2003), Forced Alliance (2007, with Melodee Spevack), the comedy The Hustle (2008, with Eugene Collier), the thriller The Grind (2009), and (2010, with Brad Dourif, Zack Duhame, Brennan Dyson, Rick Sawaya, Tim Sitarz, Eugene Collier and Anthony Molinari). He also worked on several episodes of , High Tide, , and Days of Our Lives.
More recently, he performed stunts in (2012) and in (2013, with Zoe Saldana and Todd Bryant) and worked as stunt coordinator on the comedy Action Hero (2012, written, directed, produced, and starring Brian Thompson), (2012, with Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.), the drama Channeling (2013, with Lauren Mary Kim and Mark Riccardi), and the horror film These Woods (2013) on which he also worked as second unit director and producer. In 2014, he appeared in (2014, with Kristanna Loken).
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