Terry J. Leonard

Terry James Leonard (born 1941) is an American stuntman, second unit director, film director, and stunt coordinator. He is most well known for his work as stunt coordinator and second unit director, including several collaborations with John Milius, Andrew Davis, and Robert Zemeckis.

Life and career

Leonard is a frequent collaborator of John Milius, serving as second unit director on the Milius-directed Big Wednesday, Conan the Barbarian, and Flight of the Intruder, as well as Used Cars, which Milius served as executive producer.

Leonard served as second unit director on the 1993 Andrew Davis film The Futigive, for which he staged the train crash sequence with Davis. According to an interview he did with Los Angeles Times in 2015, Leonard said "Andy Davis turned me loose. You are under a lot of pressure on making it go right. You use everything in your playbook that you have learned before to try and outsmart the gremlins."

In 1987, Leonard made his directorial debut with Death Before Dishonor, which is so far the only film he has directed.

Other films he has directed second unit on include Rush Hour, Romancing The Stone, The Expendables, Maverick, Tombstone, Cowboys & Aliens, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Filmography

Second unit director/Stunts

Year	Title	Stunts	Second unit director	Director
1978	Big Wednesday	Yes	Yes	John Milius
1979	Apocalypse Now	Yes	No	Francis Ford Coppola
1980	Used Cars	Yes	Yes	Robert Zemeckis
1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Yes	No	Steven Spielberg
1982	Conan the Barbarian	Yes	Yes	John Milius
1983	Blue Thunder	Yes	Yes	John Badham
1984	Romancing the Stone	Yes	Yes	Robert Zemeckis
1989	The Package	Yes	Yes	Andrew Davis
1990	Downtown	Yes	Yes	Richard Benjamin
1991	Flight of the Intruder	Yes	Yes	John Milius
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze	No	Yes	Michael Pressman
	Delirious	Yes	Yes	Tom Mankiewicz
	Backdraft	Yes	No	Ron Howard
	Showdown in Little Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Mark L. Lester
1992	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Yes	Yes	Fran Rubel Kuzui
	Far and Away	Yes	No	Ron Howard
1993	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III	No	Additional	Stuart Beattie
	The Fugitive	Yes	Yes	Andrew Davis
	Tombstone	Yes	Yes	George P. Cosmatos
1994	Maverick	No	Yes	Richard Donner
1995	The Quick and The Dead	Yes	Yes	Sam Raimi
	Die Hard With a Vengeance	Yes	Yes	John McTiernan
	Money Train	No	Yes	Joseph Ruben
1996	Eraser	No	Yes	Chuck Russell
1998	Rush Hour	Yes	Yes	Brett Ratner
	The Horse Whisperer	No	Yes	Robert Redford
	Mighty Joe Young	Yes	Yes	Ron Underwood
1999	Wild Wild West	Yes	Yes	Barry Sonnenfeld
2001	Planet of the Apes	Yes	No	Tim Burton
	American Outlaws	No	Yes	Les Mayfield
	Impostor	Yes	No	Gary Fleder
	Joy Ride	Yes	Yes	John Dahl
2002	The Sum Of All Fears	Yes	No	Phil Alden Robinson
2003	2 Fast 2 Furious	Yes	Yes	John Singleton
	Agent Cody Banks	No	Yes	Harald Zwart
2004	The Forgotten	Yes	Yes	Joseph Ruben
2006	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift	Yes	Yes	Justin Lin
	Date Movie	Yes	Yes	Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
2007	Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story	Yes	No	Jake Kasdan
2008	Soul Men	Yes	No	Malcolm D. Lee
2009	Fast and Furious	Yes	Yes	Justin Lin
2010	The Expendables	Yes	Yes	Sylvester Stallone
	Inception	Yes	No	Christopher Nolan
	Due Date	Yes	No	Todd Phillips
2011	Cowboys & Aliens	No	Yes	Jon Favreau
	The Green Hornet	Yes	No	Michel Gondry
	Bad Teacher	Yes	No	Jake Kasdan
2012	Django Unchained	Yes	No	Quentin Tarantino
2013	Gangster Squad	Yes	Yes	Ruben Fleischer
2014	The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Yes	No	Marc Webb
2015	Furious 7	Yes	No	James Wan
	Hot Pursuit	Yes	No	Anne Fletcher
2016	Jason Bourne	Yes	No	Paul Greengrass
2017	CHiPs	Yes	No	Dax Shepard
2020	The Call of the Wild	Yes	No	Chris Sanders
2023	Outlaw Johnny Black	Yes	No	Michael Jai White

Director

Year	Title	Notes
1987	Death Before Dishonor	Directorial debut