Dave Hospes

Dave Hospes
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Portrays:	Lee Stunt Double
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Nationality:	CAN
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Dave Hospes is a Canadian stunt performer and stunt coordinator who served as a stunt double for Lee Adama in the Re-imagined Series. He is a member of Stunts Canada, the Burnaby-based stunt performers' association.

Career

Hospes began his careeer in the late 1990s, appearing in genre productions filming in and around Vancouver. His early acting credits include appearances in First Wave (with Sebastian Spence) and The Net. In the years that followed, he stunt peformed on more than two dozen genre television series filming in and around Vancouver, including The 4400, Andromeda, Dark Angel, First Wave, Highlander: The Series, Jeremiah, Level 9, M.A.N.T.I.S., Mysterious Ways, Night Man, Night Visions, The Outer Limits, Poltergeist: The Legacy, The Sentinel, Seven Days, Sleepwalkers, Sliders, Smallville, So Weird, Stargate SG-1, Strange Luck, Strange World, Tru Calling, The Twilight Zone, and Viper. Hospes also worked on three series produced by Chris Carter: The Lone Gunmen, Millennium, and The X-Files.

His feature film work from this period includes stunts on Shanghai Noon (2000), for which he received a nomination for Best Fight at the Taurus World Stunt Awards in 2001. He also performed stunts on The 13th Warrior (1999), Thir13en Ghosts (2001), and X2: X-Men United (2003).

During the mid-2000s, Hospes worked as a stunt performer on Fantastic Four (2005), Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007). His work on Hot Rod (2007) earned him a second Taurus World Stunt Awards nomination, this time for Best Fire Stunt in 2008.

Hospes transitioned into stunt coordination beginning with the first film in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise in 2010, a role he reprised for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011) and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012). He also performed stunts on Watchmen (2009), Inception (2010), and Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011).

Among the actors Hospes has doubled are Casey Affleck, Jason Biggs, Tony Danza, James Marsden, Luke Perry, and Adrian Pasdar.

Hospes served as stunt double for Ryan Robbins on the AMC period drama Hell on Wheels, performing the fall into an open grave for the execution scene of Robbins's character Hawkins in Season 2. Robbins confirmed Hospes by name in a 2013 interview with AMCtv.com, noting: "we timed it out with what's called a 'cowboy switch' and my stunt double, Dave Hospes, went in the pit."

His later credits include stunt coordination on Nancy Drew (2019) and stunt work on the Sonic the Hedgehog films (2020, 2022), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), and The Last of Us (2023).

References

External Links

• Dave Hospes's profile at Stunts Canada