Biografia
Scott Rhodes is an award winning Stunt Coordinator, Stuntman, Fight Choreographer,Actor, Writer & Director. He was born and raised in Hoboken, NJ and began his filmmaking career when he picked up the family 8mm camera and began making short films at the age of 12. He attended Saint Peters and Jersey City State College as well as an intensive filmmaking program at NYU. He wrote and directed numerous short films (Usually action or comedies) while in college and also performed and coordinated stunts and fights for many shorts films and student productions. He was once reprimanded for performing a fight scene and flipping another actor through a classroom door while a class was in session! Influenced by Bruce Lee, Scott began studying the Martial Arts at the age of 9, studying Judo (Black Belt) at the local Y.M.C.A. He also studied and excelled in Boxing (Winning Golden Gloves titles 2 times) and High School Wrestling (Taking city, regional and state titles). Scott has studied numerous other Martial Arts over the years including, Jeet Kune Do, Kickboxing, Grappling & MMA, Hapkido (Black Belt), Japanese Goju Ryu Karate (Black Belt), Kyokushikai Karate, Shotokan Karate and various Asian & European weapons (Including swords and nunchaku). He has been featured in Black Belt Magazine and has written numerous articles on Fight Choreography and Martial Arts Movies for the magazines, Inside Kung Fu, Inside Karate, Filmfax, Martial Arts Movies, Martial Arts and Combat Sports, Black Belt and Action Films. He has also contributed to the books, "The Jackie Chan Encyclopedia", "The Martial Arts Question And Answer Book" & "The Martial Arts Sourcebook". Scott is a musician and plays drums and bass guitar. One of his earliest show business jobs was playing Paul McCartney (And sometimes Ringo Starr) in a Beatles sound alike show. Other early jobs included: Fitness Trainer, flexibility trainer, substitute school teacher, grammar school gym teacher, entertainment reporter for the Hoboken Reporter newspaper and a summer stint in the prop department at Screen Gems in NY. First professional acting job: Extra in a Miller Lite beer commercial. First professional stunt job: Performing a fight scene as a convict on the soap opera "One Life To Live" Played Ron Raines' henchman "Fisk" for 6 months on the soap opera, "Guiding Light" (1994-95). Scott appeared as a fighting cowboy in the New York Metropolitan Opera production of "la Fanciulla del West" (Starring Placido Domingo" (1993). Influenced by Bruce Lee to become a Fight Choreographer. Influenced By The James Bond Films & "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" to pursue stunt work. Played both an Alien & Predator in "Batman: Dead End" Performed stunts on "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" for 3 seasons as Vampires, Demon Monks, Zombies, Templar Knights and other assorted creatures and humans! Drove a car through a brick wall (Doubling for Matthew Perry) on a segment of "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno". Painted feathers and test wore the angel wings worn by Ben Affleck and Alan Rickman in "Dogma". For his work on "Adventures Of Superseven", Scott won the following awards at the LA Webfest, "Outstanding Direction"(2012), "Outstanding Series"(Producer - 2012), "Outstanding Editing"(2014) and at the Rome Web Awards, "Best Action/War" series.
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