Antal Kalik

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Antal Kalik (born 5 October 1980; age 44) is a stuntman, stunt actor and stunt coordinator who performed stunts in two Star Trek films. He first worked as stunt double for actor Lee Reherman under Stunt Coordinator John Stoneham, Jr. in Star Trek Into Darkness for which he received no credit. [1] This stunt was also featured behind the scenes in the 2013 special feature "Ship to Ship", released on the DVD. Kalik then worked as one of the stunt doubles for James T. Kirk actor Chris Pine on Star Trek Beyond. Under Stunt Coordinator Mike Gunther, he doubled Pine in fight scenes with Idris Elba's stunt double Marshall A. Bingham and in stunt scenes with the PX70 motorcycle where he worked with fellow doubles Leif Havdale and Reagan Sieg.

Kalik was born in Plymouth, Michigan. In the early 2000s, he moved to California to pursue a career as a stuntman. Among his earlier appearances as stunt actor are a number of short films including Racing Demon, Hike Into Hell, Tripple Cross, Tarnished Badge, Judgement Call, Ultimate Weapon (2007, with Damion Poitier and stunt supervision by Tierre Turner), Buy Her a Beer (2007), and The Man Left Behind (2008).

With skills including martial arts, scuba certified open water driving, fights and wire work, Kalik studied stunt choreography under J.J. Perry and Chad Stahelski and Xtreme martial arts under Mike Moh and Mike Chat. He holds a Keith Code Super Bike Level 2 and is trained in L.A. Wushu.

He worked as stunt double on an episode of The Young and the Restless (2007, with Page Leong) and as a stunt actor in episodes of CSI: Miami (2008, with Nicole Randall and stunt coordination by Jeff Wolfe), The Riches (2008, with Alex Daniels), Unhitched (2008), True Blood (2008), Monk (coordinated by Charlie Brewer), Numbers, Heroes: Hard Knox (2008, with Greg Grunberg), and The Closer (2008). Between 2008 and 2009, Kalik worked on all episodes of Knight Rider as stunt double for lead actor Justin Bruening where he worked with R.A. Rondell, Alina Andrei, Boni Yanagisawa, Scott Workman, Oliver Keller, Denney Pierce, Eddie Perez and Chrissy Weathersby among others.

Kalik was one of the stunt fighters in The Black Eyed Peas music video "Pump It" in 2006 along with Tanoai Reed [2], the falling man in the Killswitch Engage music video "The Arms of Sorrow" in 2007 [3], and a stunt fighter in Joey McIntyre's music video "Here We Go Again" in 2009 on which James Lew worked as stunt coordinator. [4] He was one of the gang members in the 2008 Verizon "Batman" commercial [5], a stunt football player in the 2010 Snickers Superbowl commercial with Betty White for which he was coordinated by Allan Graf [6], and the stunt driver in the 2019 Acura "Two Words" commercial. [7] He also performed stunts in commercials for Bud Light, Quaker State, Petco and Nike/Dick's Sporting Goods for which he was also coordinated by Allan Graf. He performed stunts in Superhero Movie (2008, with Thom Williams, Bruce Barbour, Simon Rhee, Clay Cullen, Al Goto, Jane Austin and stunt coordination by Charles Croughwell and Rick Avery) and doubled actor Vinnie Jones in Year One (2009, with Trace Cheramie, Carrick O'Quinn, Derek Graf and Justin Riemer).

In 2010, Kalik performed stunts as a huge bar patron in Jonah Hex (with Michael Papajohn, Joey Box, Max Daniels, Mike Mukatis, John Ashker, Jim Palmer and Kyle Weishaar), as a henchman in Iron Man 2 (with Tanoai Reed, Kiante Elam, Jeff Imada, Diana R. Lupo, Heidi Moneymaker, Eileen Weisinger, Larry Rippenkroeger, Krista Bell and Marcus Young), and as Bayne's henchman in the short film The Key (with Caine Sinclair, Dan Mast, Gene LeBell, Rick Seaman, Shawn Crowder and Katina Waters), and utility stunts in The Expendables (2010, with Sala Baker, Johnny Martin, Austin Priester, Debby Lynn Ross, Clark Tucker and stunt coordination by Noon Orsatti) and in Jackass 3D (with stunt coordination by Charles Grisham).

His stunt work includes episodes of Days of Our Lives (2009), The Closer (2009, stunt coordination by Tim Gilbert and Spike Silver), Entourage (2009, with Autumn Reeser), CSI: NY (2009, with Robert Joy), Cold Case (2009, with Jacob Chambers and Kevin Derr), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009, 2011 & 2014, with Miguel Ferrer, Dustin Meier, Brennan Dyson, Zedric Harris and stunt coordination by R.A. Rondell), The Mentalist (2010, with Alina Andrei and David Paul Olsen), Brannon Braga's FlashForward (2010, with John Cho and Peyton List), Lie to Me (2010, stunt coordination by Steve M. Davison), Dark Blue (2010), Southland (2011, with Michael McGrady, Troy Cephers, Eddie Perez, Brian Avery and stunt coordination by Peewee Piemonte), No Ordinary Family (2011, with Jimmy Bennett, Stephen Collins, John Dixon, Lisa Hoyle and Mike Washlake), The Nine Lives of Chloe King (2011, with Amy Pietz, Martin De Boer and stunt coordination by Mike Gunther), NTSF:SD:SUV:: (2011, with Kate Mulgrew, Rebecca Romijn, Gabrielle Union, Tom McComas, Cheryl Lewis and Scott Leva), Sons of Anarchy (2011, with William Lucking, Ron Perlman, Jeff Kober, Benito Martinez, Nicholas Guest, Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom, Scott Workman and SC by Steve M. Davison), Chuck (2011, with Bonita Friedericy and stunt coordination by Merritt Yohnka), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2011, 2012 & 2014, starring Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham, with Dina Meyer, Trampas Thompson, Merrin Dungey and Paul Eliopoulos), Death Valley (2011), Punk'd (2012, with Lauren Mary Kim), General Hospital (2012, with Constance Towers and Sean Blakemore), Modern Family (2012), 1600 Penn (2012), Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (2013, with Wendy Schenker), Alaska: Ice Cold Killers (2013), FBI: Criminal Pursuit (2013), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013 & 2014, with Tara Macken and Hiro Koda), Childrens Hospital (2013), Revolution (2014, with Billy Burke, Stephen Collins, Steven Culp, Eddie Davenport and stunt coordination by Jeff Wolfe), The Last Ship (2014-15, with John Pyper-Ferguson, Ness Bautista, Paul Lacovara, Kurt D. Lott and stunt coordination by Lin Oeding), Revenge (2015, with Rob Mars), and CSI: Cyber (2015, with Kenneth Mitchell, Darlene Ava Williams, Clay Cullen and stunt coordination by R.A. Rondell).

Kalik worked as stunt double for Eddie Cibrian on the CSI: Miami episode "Meltdown" (2010, with David Lee Smith, Tim Russ, Douglas Tait, Jimmy N. Roberts and stunt coordination by Michael Gaines), for Vinnie Jones on the television series The Cape (2011, with James Frain and stunt coordination by Chris O'Hara), for Stephen Amell on Hung (2011, with Gregg Henry), for Karl Makinen on Criminal Minds (2011, with Cody Klop and John Marzilli), for Scott Michael Foster on Californication (2012, with Pamela Adlon, Patrick Fischler and Kenny Alexander), for Brian Patrick Wade on Teen Wolf (2013, with Chris Brewster, Trevor Habberstad, Cheryl Lewis and stunt coordination by Gary Ray Stearns) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014, with Neal McDonough, Charles Picerni, Courtney Schwartz, Denney Pierce and stunt coordination by Tanner Gill), and for Mark-Paul Gosselaar on two episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2014 & 2015).

Between 2012 and 2015, he worked as stunt double for actor David Boreanaz on sixteen episodes of the television series Bones during the shows seventh through tenth seasons. Here, he worked with Vanessa Branch, Gary Riotto, Tim Sitarz, Derek Graf, Charles Ingram, Scott Workman, Robert Rusler, Chris Brewster, Rosalind Chao, Rene Rosado, Dan Mast, Kevin Scott Allen, Richard Wharton, Tim Ransom, Gary Wayton, David Paul Olsen, Mark Wagner, Mike Massa, Erica Grace, Mike Gunther, Angela Meryl, Chrissy Weathersby, April Weeden, Robert Curtis Brown, Robert Picardo, John Dixon, Diana R. Lupo, Caryn Mower, Spice Williams, Jahnel Curfman, Morgan Benoit and stunt coordination by Simon Rhee. He also doubled actor Chris Pratt in three episodes of Parks and Recreation between 2012 and 2014 where he worked with Adam Scott, Jim O'Heir, Paul Hayes, Rick Fitts, Trevor Habberstad and Daniel Stevens.

Kalik worked as stunt actor on BlinkyTM (2011, with James Nardini), Limitless (2011, with Cindy Katz, Ray Siegle, Ben Bray and Frank Torres), Green Lantern (2011, with Michael Clarke Duncan, Salome Jens, Clancy Brown, Dorian Kingi, LaFaye Baker, Dana Dru Evenson, Scheryl W. Brown, Garrik Palumbo, Todd Bryant and Eddie Mathews), the short action drama The Boxer's Shadow (2011), Warrior (2011, with Tom Hardy, Jennifer Morrison, Chien Funan, Jace Jeanes and stunt coordination by Lin Oeding), the television drama The Asset (2012, with Marilyn Monrovia, Malosi Leonard and Chris Palermo), John Carter (2012, with Steen Young, Cliff McLaughlin, Bridgett Riley, Jessica Harbeck and Merritt Yohnka), Kinect Star Wars (2012), Killing Them Softly (2012, with Gary Baxley, Hunter Baxley, Eddie Braun, Jim Palmer and stunt coordination by Darrin Prescott), the drama Yellow (2012, with Cassandra McCormick), and as a stunt soldier on The Dark Knight Rises (2012, with Tom Hardy, Rex J. Reddick, Marie Fink, Victor Paguia, Steve Rizzo, Tracey Ruggiero, Chrissy Weathersby and Marcus Young). His stunt work on The Dark Knight Rises earned him his first Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in 2013 in the category Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture.

He doubled actor Mark Pellegrino in Locke & Key (2011, with Mike Washlake), Johann Urb in the television drama Hallelujah (2011, with Brett Cullen, Terry O'Quinn, Josh Clark and Charles Ingram), Adam Johnson in the television drama Beautiful People (2012, with Steve Rizzo and Katina Waters), Chris Hemsworth in Red Dawn (2012, with Ilram Choi, Clay Cullen, Marie Fink, Scott Rogers, Thom Williams and stunt coordination by Darrin Prescott), Christopher Walken in Stand Up Guys (2012, with Mark Margolis, Keone Young, Eve H. Brenner, Max Daniels, Steve Kelso, Nico Woulard, Mickey Giacomazzi and stunt coordination by Darrin Prescott), and Chris Browning and Mark Sivertsen in The Last Stand (2013, with Cliff Fleming, Al Goto, Lane Leavitt, Tanoai Reed, Jeff Sanders, Cory Fleming and Rob King).

In 2012, Kalik made his debut as stunt coordinator when he worked on the short comedy Extremely Dark Knight based on The Dark Knight Rises. Germany Kent and Reggie Melvin were among the cast. He also worked as stunt coordinator on the short drama Guests (2013, with Grainger Hines), the short drama Dwell Time (2014), the short horror film She (2016), and The Real O'Neals (2016, with Tim Lounibos).

Further stunt work include Love and Honor (2013), the action comedy In Security (2013, with Jim O'Heir, Ed Begley, Jr., Daniel Stevens and stunt coordination by Theo Kypri), After Earth (2013, with Mike Avery, Anis Cheurfa, Brycen Counts, Zero Kazama, Heidi Moneymaker, Natascha Hopkins, Caine Sinclair and stunt coordination by Jeff Imada, Tim Rigby and R.A. Rondell), The Purge: Anarchy (2014, with Eric Watson, Alyma Dorsey, Brandon Molale, Todd Schneider, Kevin Arnold and additional stunt coordination by Mike Gunther), American Sniper (2014, with Tim Griffin, Slim Khezri, Rick Avery, Nick Hermz, Mark Rayner, Aaron Toney and stunt coordination by Trevor Habberstad), as a stunt lab guard in Ant-Man (2015, with Alex Chansky, Sala Baker, Robin Lynn Bonaccorsi, Richard Epper, Brett A. Jones, Chino Binamo and Lin Oeding), The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015, with Ashley Judd, Daniel Dae Kim Anis Cheurfa, Ian Eyre, Paul Lacovara, Jim Palmer, Mark Rayner and Kyle Weishaar), The Martial Arts Kid (2015, with T.J. Storm, Jeff Rector, Cheryl Wheeler-Duncan, and fight choreography by James Lew), the horror film A Perfect Vacation (2015), Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015, with Paula Malcomson, Eugenie Bondurant, Joe Chrest, Michelle Forbes, Robert Knepper, April Grace and stunt coordination by R.A. Rondell), and the science fiction film The Vanquisher (2016, with Robert Axelrod).

Kalik was the stunt double for actor Channing Tatum in two blockbuster movies. In 2014 he doubled him in 22 Jump Street where he worked along with H. Jon Benjamin, Bill Hader, Jeff Sanders, Ted Barba, Richard L. Blackwell, Peter Epstein, Chris Palermo, Kevin Reid, Rick Seaman, Hunter Baxley, Jay Caputo, Clay Cullen, Tony Donno and Charlie Picerni. This work earned him and Jonah Hill stunt double Steve Schriver a Taurus World Stunt Award in the category Best High Work in 2015. He also earned another nomination for 22 Jump Street in 2015 in the category Hardest Hit. In 2015, Kalik doubled Tatum in Jupiter Ascending where he worked with Cliff Fleming, Tim Connolly, Brycen Counts, Thomas DeWier, Kiante Elam, Richard Epper, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Michael Hugghins, Brett A. Jones, Mike Massa, Heidi Moneymaker, Mike Mukatis, Eddie Yansick and stunt coordinators R.A. Rondell and Chris O'Hara. For this work he won his second Taurus World Stunt Award in 2016 in the category Best High Work which he shared with Cliff Fleming and Craig Hosking. [8]

He was the stunt double for Matt Nable on the short fantasy film Superhero Fight Club (2015, with Morgan Benoit and Daniel Stevens), for Chris Evans on the sequel Captain America: Civil War (2016) which earned him his second Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture in 2017, for Hugh Jackman in Logan (2017) which earned him his third Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture in 2018, for Josh Duhamel on Transformers: The Last Knight (2017, starring Mark Wahlberg, with Santiago Cabrera, Jess Harnell, Jade Quon, Corey Michael Eubanks, J.P. Romano and supervising stunt coordinator Mike Gunther), for John Krasinski on A Quiet Place (2018, with Leon Russom and stunt coordination by Mike Gunther and Victor Paguia), for Callan Mulvey on Delirium (2018, stunt coordination by Trampas Thompson and John Dixon), for Philip Winchester on The Player (2015, with Wesley Snipes and stunt coordination by Eric Norris), for Anson Mount in two episodes of Inhumans (2017, with Matt Perfetuo, Marco Rodriguez, Tom Wright and Alex Daniels), and for David Boreanaz on three episodes of SEAL Team (2019, with Jamie McShane, Glenn Goldstein, Morgan Benoit, Max Daniels, Omid Zader, Sumalee Montano and stunt coordination by Mike Massa).

Other stunt work includes episodes of Rizzoli & Isles (2015, with Bruce McGill and stunt coordination by Merritt Yohnka), Grimm (2015, with Reggie Lee, Darrell Craig Davis and Allen Robinson), Community (2015, starring Gillian Jacobs, with Danny Pudi, Carl Ciarfalio, Katie Eischen, Alyma Dorsey, Lance Jemison, Bevin Kaye, John-Clay Scott and stunt coordination by Ben Scott), True Detective (2015, with Josh Clark, Joseph Gatt, Bill Blair and Jeff Wolfe), Agent X (2015, coordinated by Mike Massa), The Goldbergs (2015 & 2018, with Jeff Witzke), NCIS: Los Angeles (2015, 2017 & 2019), Banshee (2016), Ray Donovan (2016, coordinated by Shauna Duggins), Rosewood (2016, Robert Wisdom]]), Those Who Can't (2016, directed by Nancy Hower), 'Pure Genius (2016, with Cullen Douglas and Petra Sprecher), Criminal Minds (2016), The Brave (2017, with Mike Vogel), K.C. Undercover (2017), Preacher (2017, with Ronald Guttman and John Ales), The Last Ship (2017), Future Man (2017, starring Haley Joel Osment, with Brian Oerly, Dan Sachoff, Daniel Arrias, Darrell Craig Davis, Cory DeMeyers, Jessie Graff, Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom and Hugh Aodh O'Brien), The Orville (2017, with Seth MacFarlane, Penny Johnson Jerald, Scott Grimes, Ron Canada, Brett Rickaby, J.D. Cullum, Pat Romano, Zack Duhame, Selkie Hom, Lamont Thompson, D. Elliot Woods, Janell Haney, Rico E. Anderson and directed by Robert Duncan McNeill and Brannon Braga), Lethal Weapon (2017-19, with Kevin Rahm, Tony Plana, Craig Baxley, Jr. and Michelle Hurd), Magnum P.I. (2018, directed by Justin Lin), Barry (2018), Black Monday (2019, with Marcy Goldman, Zack Duhame, Kevin Arnold and Nico Woulard), Animal Kingdom (2019, coordinated by Charlie Croughwell), Strange Angel (2019, with Alex Diehl, J. Downing and stunt coordination by Allan Graf), For All Mankind (2019, with Linda Kessler), and S.W.A.T. (2019, with Kevin Foster, Jay Harrington, Julius Denem and coordination by Charlie Brewer), the television thriller Behind Enemy Lines (2017, coordinated by Tim Trella), Hotel Artemis (2018, with Sofia Boutella, Zachary Quinto, Max Valentine, Terry Jackson and Rob Mars), Bird Box (2019), Cliffs of Freedom (2019, with Christopher Plummer and Mike Watson), Captain Marvel (2019, with Kenneth Mitchell, Keisha Tucker, Mark Chadwick and Linda Kessler), Men in Black: International (2019, with Chris Hemsworth, J.J. Abrams, Clay Cullen, Steve DeCastro, Kachina Dechert and Tara Macken), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Hobbs & Shaw (2019, with Dwayne Johnson and Idris Elba).

Following his work as stunt double for Chris Pine on Star Trek Beyond, Kalik became a regular stunt double for Pine. He also doubled for him in the Angie Tribeca episode "Go Get 'Em, Tiger" (2017, with Jessi Fisher and Rene Mousseux), Wonder Woman (2017, with Rich Cetrone, Jessie Graff, James M. Halty, Jimmy Hart and stunt coordination by Tim Rigby) for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award in the category Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture in 2018, A Wrinkle in Time (2018, with Bryan Cartago, Bethany Levy and Tara Macken), Outlaw King (2018), all six episodes of I Am the Night (2019, with Golden Brooks, Anthony Molinari, Gregg Sargeant and stunt coordination by Theo Kypri), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020, with Kelvin Yu, Clay Cullen, Julius Denem, Danny Downey, Charles Haugk, Cheryl Lewis, Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom and Steve Upton), and The Contractor (2020, with Jimmy N. Roberts) on which he also works as co-stunt coordinator and fight choreographer.

Kalik later doubled actor Logan Paul in Valley Girl (2020, with Peyton List, Mark Casimir Dyniewicz, Jayson Dumenigo, Dennis Keiffer and Courtney Schwartz) and Nicholas Hoult in Those Who Wish Me Dead (2020, with Tyler Perry, Jimmy Hart, Mark Rayner and coordination by Tim Rigby). He also performed stunts in A Quiet Place Part II (2020, with John Dixon, Tara Macken, Dan Mast and coordinated by Mike Gunther), Free Guy (2020, with Clay Cullen, Jeremy Fry, Chris Palermo, Daniel Stevens, Trevor Logan and coordination by Chris O'Hara), and episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm (2020, with Peggy Miley), Criminal Minds (2020), Westworld (2020, with Danny Downey, Tara Macken and stunt coordination by Ken Clark, Doug Coleman and Mickey Giacomazzi), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2020, with Jimmy Hart, Craig Jensen, Kiera O'Connor and stunt coordination by Tim Connolly), Yellowstone (2020, with Steve Luna, Joey Anaya, Darrell Craig Davis and Ray Siegle), and Lucifer (2020, with Rene Mousseux).

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