Craig Redding Baxley is an American actor, director and stunt performer. He is best known for his work in the action and thriller genres.

Beginning his career as a stunt performer

Stunt performer

A stuntman, or daredevil is someone who performs dangerous stunts, often as a career.These stunts are sometimes rigged so that they look dangerous while still having safety mechanisms, but often they are as dangerous as they appear to be...

, he was hired to perform stunts in number of notable television series namely Police Story, Harry O, Rich Man, Poor Man Book II

Rich Man, Poor Man Book II

Rich Man, Poor Man Book II is an American television miniseries that aired on ABC in one-hour episodes at 9:00pm ET/PT on Tuesday nights between September 21, 1976 and March 8, 1977...

, Gemini Man

Gemini Man

Gemini Man is an American action/adventure drama series that aired on NBC in 1976. This is the third of four weekly television series based on the H. G. Wells science fiction novel, The Invisible Man.-Synopsis:...

, Roots

Roots (TV miniseries)

Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's fictional novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Roots received 36 Emmy Award nominations, winning nine. It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings with the finale still...

, M*A*S*H, The Dukes of Hazzard

The Dukes of Hazzard

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and The A-Team

The A-Team

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(his head directorial debut). He also worked as a stunt coordinator and second unit director on the feature films The Warriors (1979), The Long Riders

The Long Riders

The Long Riders is a 1980 western film directed by Walter Hill. It was produced by James Keach, Stacy Keach and Tim Zinnemann and featured an original soundtrack by Ry Cooder. Cooder won the Best Music award in 1980 from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for this soundtrack...

(1980), Reds (1981) and Predator

Predator (film)

Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by John McTiernan, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, and Kevin Peter Hall. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox....

(1987).

Baxley also appeared in four episodes of Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

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, as well having small roles in Chase

Chase (1973 TV series)

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, Mannix

Mannix

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, Bearcats!, Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marcus Welby, M.D.

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and S.W.A.T.

S.W.A.T. (TV series)

----S.W.A.T. is a 1970s American television series about the adventures of the WCPD's Olympic Division Special Weapons And Tactics team operating in an unidentified California city....

In 1987, he made his feature film directorial debut with Action Jackson

Action Jackson

Action Jackson is a 1988 action film directed by Craig R. Baxley and starring Carl Weathers, Vanity, Craig T. Nelson and Sharon Stone. Paula Abdul was the choreographer...

. His other feature film credits are I Come in Peace

I Come in Peace

I Come in Peace is a 1990 science fiction action thriller feature film about a rule-breaking vice cop who becomes involved in the investigation of a number of mysterious drug-related murders on the streets of Houston, Texas. The film was directed by Craig R...

(1991), Stone Cold

Stone Cold (1991 film)

Stone Cold is a 1991 action movie based around a biker gang out to assassinate the governor and free one of their members who is on trial for murder. The movie marked the acting debut of 80's football star Brian Bosworth.-Plot:...

(1991) and Sniper 2

Sniper 2

Sniper 2 is an American film shot in Hungary in November 2002 and released in early 2003. It stars Tom Berenger, Bokeem Woodbine, Erika Marozsán and Tamás Puskás, and was directed by Craig R. Baxley....

(2002).

Baxley's other television directing credits include miniseries based on Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

 works namely Storm of the Century

Storm of the Century

Storm of the Century, alternatively known as Stephen King's Storm of the Century, is a 1999 horror TV miniseries written by Stephen King and directed by Craig R. Baxley. Unlike many other King mini-series, Storm of the Century was not based upon a Stephen King novel - King wrote it as a screenplay...

(1999), Rose Red (2002), The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003), Kingdom Hospital

Kingdom Hospital

Kingdom Hospital is a thirteen-episode television miniseries based on Lars von Trier's The Kingdom , which was developed by horror writer Stephen King in 2004 for American television...

(2004), as well as The Triangle (2005) and The Lost Room

The Lost Room

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(2006). Some of his television film credits include A Family Torn Apart

A Family Torn Apart

A Family Torn Apart is a 1993 television film directed by Craig R. Baxley, based on the novel Sudden Fury: A True Story of Adoption and Murder by Leslie Walker, which itself is based on a true story.- Plot :...

(1993), Twisted Desire

Twisted Desire

Twisted Desire is a 1996 television film directed by Craig R. Baxley. The film is based on the 1990 murders of the parents of 14-year-old Jessica Wiseman. Jessica had her 17-year-old boyfriend, Douglas Christopher Thomas, shoot and kill her parents. Thomas was executed in 2000.- Plot :Jennifer...

(1996) and Silencing Mary

Silencing Mary

Silencing Mary, also released as Campus Justice, is a 1998 television film directed by Craig R. Baxley. The film was made to warn people about rape and the then popular teen actress/country music superstar Melissa Joan Hart was cast in the lead to drawn a young audience.- Plot :Mary Stuartson is a...

(1998) both starring Melissa Joan Hart

Melissa Joan Hart

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