Richard L. Blackwell (born 27 August 1956; age 68) is a stuntman, stunt actor, stunt rigger, and stunt coordinator who performed stunts in Star Trek: Insurrection and in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He received no credit for the latter one.
In 2001 he was nominated for a Taurus World Stunt Award for best work with a vehicle in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. He has doubled for stars such as Chris O'Donnell, Sam Rockwell, and William McNamara. In 2008 he was part of the stunt cast which received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture for his work in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). In 2017, Blackwell was again nominated in the category Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture for his work on Captain America: Civil War (2016).
Among his stunt resume are films such as RoboCop 2 (1990, with Peter Weller, John Glover, Roger Aaron Brown, Gabriel Damon, Mark Rolston, Galyn Görg, Jeff McCarthy, Phil Rubenstein, Robert DoQui, Erik Cord, Stephen Lee, Tzi Ma, Gary Bullock, Bill Bolender, and stunts by Christine Anne Baur, Phil Chong, Eddie Hice, Gene LeBell, Mario Roberts, and Brian J. Williams), Eve of Destruction (1991, with Eddie Mathews, Tom Morga, Tim Russ, Tom Lupo, Thomas Knickerbocker, Jeff McCarthy, Dakin Matthews, and stunts by Gary Baxley, Zane Cassidy, Mark Donaldson, and Jeff Smolek), Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), Under Siege (1992), Army of Darkness (1992, with Patricia Tallman and Dennis Madalone), RoboCop 3 (1993), Kalifornia (1993, with Michelle Forbes), The Pelican Brief (1993), Outbreak (1995), Batman Forever (1995, with René Auberjonois), Independence Day (1996), Batman & Robin (1997, with John Glover), Conspiracy Theory (1997, with Patrick Stewart, Brian J. Williams, Saxon Trainor, Bert Remsen, Lincoln Simonds, Stephen Liska, Kenneth Tigar, and stunts by Steve Blalock, Eddie Braun, Danny Downey, Chris Doyle, Bob Minor, Mic Rodgers, and Paul Sklar), The Perfect Storm (2000), Spider-Man (2002, with Kirsten Dunst), Men in Black II (2002), X2 (2003, with Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen and Rebecca Romijn), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) with Tom Morga, Mark Wagner, Lisa Hoyle, Theo Kypri, and Tony Angelotti).
He performed stunts in Land of the Lost (2009, with Joey Anaya, Todd Bryant, Ian Eyre, Michael Papajohn, and Brian J. Williams), Casa de mi Padre (2012, with Max Daniels, John Dixon, and Branscombe Richmond), Breakout Kings (2012, with Jay and Jennifer Caputo and Lin Oeding), Mud (2012, with Mickey Giacomazzi and Randy Hall), The Campaign (2012, with Trace Cheramie, Derek Graf, Scott Leva, and Spice Williams), Beautiful Creatures (2013, stunt coordination by Charles Picerni, Jr.), episodes of American Horror Story (2013-2014, with Jay Caputo and Pete Turner), Exists (2014, with Dick Hancock), 22 Jump Street (2014), the crime thriller Desiree (2015, coordinated by Todd Bryant), Barely Lethal (2015), and Salem (2014-2015, with Ted Barba and Jay Caputo).
More recently, Blackwell worked as stunt rigger on Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Camera Store (2017) and performed stunts in the television horror drama The Haunted (2017, with Dan Barringer, Jay Caputo, and Hiro Koda) and The Gifted episode "eXposed" (2017, with Clayton J. Barber, Jay and Jennifer Caputo, Mark Wagner, and Chrissy Weathersby).