Steve Boyum (born 4 September 1952; age 72) is a former stuntman turned into director and producer who worked as stunt double for Brian Thompson during the fight scenes against fellow stuntman Matt McColm in the Star Trek: The Next Generation second season episode "A Matter Of Honor". He filmed his scenes under Stunt Coordinator Dennis Madalone on Friday 9 December 1988 on Paramount Stage 16 as listed on the call sheet. Re-used scenes from this appearance were later included in the clip show "Shades of Gray".
Raised in Los Angeles, California, Boyum attended Agoura High School and Pierce College and became a world-class surfer, ski racer and instructor, and motor-cross racer before he entered the stunt industry in the mid-1970s. Among his earlier stunt work are Search for the Gods (1975, with Gary Epper and Henry Kingi, Sr.), Bound for Glory (1976, coordination by Buddy Joe Hooker), Big Wednesday (1978, with Joel Schultz), Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978, with Glenn R. Wilder, David Richard Ellis, and Alan Oliney), Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979), and 1941 (1979).
Boyum was one of the stunt performers on Apocalypse Now (1979, starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen, with Albert Hall and Paul Lambert). In 2002, with the release of the director's cut of the film, Apocalypse Now Redux, Boyum and fellow stuntmen Kerry Rossall, Joe Finnegan, and Terry Leonard received three Taurus World Stunt Award nominations for their work on this film in the categories Best Fire Stunt, Best Water Work, and Best Work With a Vehicle. [1]
For the next four decades, Boyum worked as stuntman and stunt performer on a number of films and television projects. He worked as stunt double for Charlton Heston in The Mountain Men (1980) and for Gerrit Graham in Used Cars (1980) and had memorable parts in Rollerball (1975), Herbie Goes Bananas (1980), and Predator (1987).
Among his numerous stunt credits are The Blues Brothers (1980), Action Jackson (1988), Twins (1988), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) and Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), Days of Thunder (1990), Thelma & Louise (1991), The Last Boy Scout (1991), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Falling Down (1993), True Lies (1994), Sudden Death (1995), and You, Me and Dupree (2006) for which he and Jimmy N. Roberts received a Taurus World Stunt Award in the category Hardest Hit in 2007. He also worked on several television series including episodes of Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975), McMillan & Wife (1977), Flying High (1978), Father Murphy (1981), Hunter (1984), The A-Team (1983-86), Stingray (1987), Paradise (1990), Tales from the Crypt (1991), In the Heat of the Night (1991), and Walker, Texas Ranger (1994).
As stunt coordinator, Boyum was responsible for the action seen in Just Before Dawn (1981), The Beastmaster (1982), Stingray (1987) and Werewolf (1987-1988), Dead Again (1991), White Sands (1992), Patriot Games (1992), Sliver (1993), Gettysburg (1993), Heavyweights (1995), Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994) and D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996).
In the 1980s, Boyum also started to work behind the camera as second unit director on most of the projects he stunt coordinated as well as on Groundhog Day (1993), Airborne (1993), Jingle All the Way (1996), That Darn Cat (1997), George of the Jungle (1997), Mystery, Alaska (1999), and Primeval (2007).
Among his credits as director are Meet the Deedles (1998), Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003), and several episodes of Cold Case (2006), Close to Home (2007), Bionic Woman (2007), Jericho (2008), Numbers (2007-09), Criminal Minds (2006-09), Harper's Island (2009), The Cleaner (2008-09), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009-10), Human Target (2010-11), Castle (2011), Hawaii Five-0 (2011-13), Revolution (2012-14), Forever (2014), Supernatural (2006-15), Rush Hour (2016), Black Sails (2015-17), Lethal Weapon (2016-18), The Boys (2020), and Blood & Treasure (2019-22). He also worked as supervising producer on Human Target (2010-11) and as co-executive producer on Hawaii Five-0 (2011-12), Rush Hour (2016), Black Sails (2015-17), Lethal Weapon (2016-18), and Blood & Treasure (2022).
Today, Boyum resides with his wife in Malibu, California.