Nick Dimitri(1932-2021)
- Actor
- Stunts
Prolific Hollywood stuntman / actor / bodybuilder who portrayed bare
knuckle fighters, tough thugs, vicious hoodlums and even a living dead
sculptor in a career spanning over thirty years. A US navy veteran, the
athletically built Dimitri first got involved in cinema in the late
1950's and contributed stunt work to TV series like
77 Sunset Strip (1958) and
Route 66 (1960) and appeared in
minor acting roles in
Kid Galahad (1962),
The Train (1964) and Ambushers, The
(1967).
Dimitri was genuinely terrifying as an artist who returns from the dead
seeking blood to build a hideous statue and to terrorize
Angie Dickinson in the TV pilot
The Norliss Tapes (1973).
He was equally impressive as a ruthless bare knuckle fighter hired by
white collar gangsters to slug it out with
Charles Bronson amongst pits of oyster
shells in the climax of the gritty
Hard Times (1975).
He remained perpetually busy during the 1980's contributing stunts and
acting appearances in many action oriented TV shows including
Knight Rider (1982),
The A-Team (1983),
MacGyver (1985) and
Hunter (1984). In the 1990s, Dimitri
tangled with cop Steven Seagal during a
pool room brawl in
Out for Justice (1991) and he was
knocked out cold by a bomb laden corpse (!) as
Arnold Schwarzenegger made his
escape for a gangster's lavish rooftop funeral in
Last Action Hero (1993). A
longtime member of the well known Stuntmen's Association, Dimitri
enjoys minor cult status amongst some movie fans for his "tough as
nails" screen characters !
knuckle fighters, tough thugs, vicious hoodlums and even a living dead
sculptor in a career spanning over thirty years. A US navy veteran, the
athletically built Dimitri first got involved in cinema in the late
1950's and contributed stunt work to TV series like
77 Sunset Strip (1958) and
Route 66 (1960) and appeared in
minor acting roles in
Kid Galahad (1962),
The Train (1964) and Ambushers, The
(1967).
Dimitri was genuinely terrifying as an artist who returns from the dead
seeking blood to build a hideous statue and to terrorize
Angie Dickinson in the TV pilot
The Norliss Tapes (1973).
He was equally impressive as a ruthless bare knuckle fighter hired by
white collar gangsters to slug it out with
Charles Bronson amongst pits of oyster
shells in the climax of the gritty
Hard Times (1975).
He remained perpetually busy during the 1980's contributing stunts and
acting appearances in many action oriented TV shows including
Knight Rider (1982),
The A-Team (1983),
MacGyver (1985) and
Hunter (1984). In the 1990s, Dimitri
tangled with cop Steven Seagal during a
pool room brawl in
Out for Justice (1991) and he was
knocked out cold by a bomb laden corpse (!) as
Arnold Schwarzenegger made his
escape for a gangster's lavish rooftop funeral in
Last Action Hero (1993). A
longtime member of the well known Stuntmen's Association, Dimitri
enjoys minor cult status amongst some movie fans for his "tough as
nails" screen characters !