Brandon Molale

Brandon Molale is an actor and stuntman who appeared as a baseball spectator in the seventh season episode . This role was one of his first parts as a background actor after his move to Los Angeles in 1998. He filmed this scene at the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Molale was born in Pocatello, Idaho and raised in Concord, California. He attended the Fesno State University where he also started to play professional football and graduated with a BA in Advertising and Marketing. After his move to Los Angeles in 1998 he started to do background work on films and television series such as Deep Space Nine, as a pool spectator in the opening scene of (1999), as Big Boy in the movie Forbidden Highway (1999), and (1999), One World (1999, with Michelle Krusiec), and The Jersey (1999).
With a background as football player he soon started to do stunt work in productions such as (1998, with Christine Baur and Michael Papajohn). The following years he performed stunts in episodes of , as stunt double for Junior Seau in The Jersey (starring Michael Bofshever), Arrest & Trial (2000), (2000, with Marshall R. Teague and David Michael Graves), , (starring Paul Sorvino), , The Huntress (2001, with Michael McKean and stunt coordinator Don Ruffin), (2002, along with Elle Alexander, Spice Williams, Katie Rowe, and Rosine "Ace" Hatem), America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (2002), and (2003).
Among his first film work as a stunt actor are (2000, with Manu Intiraymi and Joe Gieb), as a Neanderthal jail guard in (2000, with Joan Collins, Kevin Grevioux, John Cho, and stunts by Leslie Hoffman, Spice Williams-Crosby, Elle Alexander, Mark Chadwick, Manny Perry, and Monica Staggs), (2001), the short drama Room 302 (2001, with Kristin Bauer), and (2001, with stunts by Brian Avery and Monica Staggs).
The following years Molale had recurring roles and featured parts in shows such as (1999-2001), (2002, starring Debra Wilson), and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1999-2008). Beside his work as football coordinator on , Everybody Loves Raymond, and American Family he performed stunts in the television drama Hunter: Back in Force (2003), (2003, starring Eric Bana), (2003, starring The Rock and Christopher Walken), (2003), (2004), and (2006).
In 2002 he portrayed the Quarterback Kevin Ward in , starring Winona Ryder, followed by a memorable performance as Blazer in in 2004. Other projects include the television drama Then Came Jones (2003, with stunts by Joey Box and Rob Mars), (2004), (2005), J.J. Abrams' (2006), (2007), and (2008). Molale also appeared in episodes of That '70s Show (2005, with Kurtwood Smith and Don Stark), (2005, with William Shatner, René Auberjonois, Damion Poitier, and Shawn Crowder), (2006), (2007, with stunt coordinator Diamond Farnsworth), (2007), (2007), (2008, with Thomas Dekker, Dorenda Moore, and stunt coordinator Joel Kramer), (2008), and as stunt double for Kevin Durand in Lost (2008, with fellow stunt double Thom Williams).
He was also featured in episodes of (2009), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2010), (2010, with stunts by John Dixon, Damion Poitier, and Jade Quon), as Hulk in Ultradome (2010), The Bold and the Beautiful (2010), and (2010, with stunts by Kevin Derr, Oliver Keller, Tim Sitarz, and Mike Massa). Later film credits are (2009), the horror film The Dead Undead (2010, with Edward Conna and Spice Williams-Crosby), the crime thriller Minkow (2010), (2010), the comedy Wedding Day (2010, with Patrick Kilpatrick), as stunt double for Kevin Durand in (2011), and the drama Touched (2012, stunt coordinated by Spice Williams-Crosby).
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