Jeff Pruitt
- Stunts
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
Stunt coordinator/director/actor Jeff Pruitt was born in the mountains of north Georgia and graduated high school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He grew up racing motorcycles from the age of ten and competed in Karate tournaments - eventually receiving his black belt in Tang Soo Do.
While in college he began working as a production assistant, camera operator and occasional extra in film and television programs shot in the Atlanta area until finally parlaying his athletic background into stunt performing.
After moving to Los Angeles in the eighties he reunited with a director he'd worked with in Georgia and began choreographing martial arts fights for Hollywood productions. At the time Jeff's method of combining multiple fast fight combinations with creative stunt falls and wire work with the more acceptable Hollywood style was considered very unorthodox and it took some gradual and persistent persuasion to make it happen.
After a series of successful action films Jeff began directing and stunt coordinating a television series called, The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, in which he mixed the traditional Japanese style of the original Japanese series with some fanciful stunts of his own design. The show became one of the most successful ventures in TV history.
Jeff has continued to direct, choreograph, rig and coordinate the action sequences for features, music videos, commercials and many television shows - including the wildly popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer series and many more.
Jeff has been listed as one of Hollywood's 100 Most Creative People by Entertainment Weekly magazine and has designed stunt equipment and harnesses that are in use around the world today.
While in college he began working as a production assistant, camera operator and occasional extra in film and television programs shot in the Atlanta area until finally parlaying his athletic background into stunt performing.
After moving to Los Angeles in the eighties he reunited with a director he'd worked with in Georgia and began choreographing martial arts fights for Hollywood productions. At the time Jeff's method of combining multiple fast fight combinations with creative stunt falls and wire work with the more acceptable Hollywood style was considered very unorthodox and it took some gradual and persistent persuasion to make it happen.
After a series of successful action films Jeff began directing and stunt coordinating a television series called, The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, in which he mixed the traditional Japanese style of the original Japanese series with some fanciful stunts of his own design. The show became one of the most successful ventures in TV history.
Jeff has continued to direct, choreograph, rig and coordinate the action sequences for features, music videos, commercials and many television shows - including the wildly popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer series and many more.
Jeff has been listed as one of Hollywood's 100 Most Creative People by Entertainment Weekly magazine and has designed stunt equipment and harnesses that are in use around the world today.
