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Peter Horak
Born in Prague during the war era, Peter Horak is a filmmaker and legendary stunt professional whose career spans decades of international cinema. After escaping Czechoslovakia in…
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Born in Prague during the war era, Peter Horak is a filmmaker and legendary stunt professional whose career spans decades of international cinema. After escaping Czechoslovakia in 1968, he defected to Canada and later moved to Los Angeles, where he trained at Paul Stader’s stunt school and began working in Hollywood. A former Czech national judo champion, Horak combined athletic skill with mechanical expertise, designing and building his own stunt equipment and performing some of the industry’s most dangerous stunts. In 1980, he set a world record with a 120-foot jet-boat jump, surpassing a record established during Live and Let Die and earning a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for 16 years.
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2022
Moon Knight
TV show Second Assistant Accountant
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2003
National Security
Movie Stunts
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1999
A Man Who Fell From The Sky
Movie Self
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1998
Die Hard Dracula
Movie Baker Fuksa
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1996
The Nutty Professor
Movie Stunts
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1995
Forget Paris
Movie Utility Stunts
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1988
Above the Law
Movie Stunts
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1978
The Fifth Floor
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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1977
MacArthur
Movie Stunts
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1976
The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Movie Stunt Coordinator
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1975
Sons of Sassoun
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