Raymond Sammel

Raymond Sammel
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Portrays:	William Adama (stunt double)
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Nationality:	CAN
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Raymond Sammel is a Canadian stunt performer and actor based in Surrey, British Columbia. In the Re-imagined Series, he served as stunt double for William Adama (Edward James Olmos) in the fourth-season episodes "The Oath" and "Daybreak, Part I". A UBCP/ACTRA member registered in British Columbia's West region, he has accumulated stunt and acting credits across more than three decades of film and television production.

Career

Sammel's screen credits begin in the late 1980s with Cannon Films action productions. He performed stunts on American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987) and served as stunt coordinator on American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989), one of his earliest coordinator credits. He also appeared in front of the camera during this period, receiving an actor credit on Laser Mission (1989).

Through the 1990s, Sammel continued work as a stunt performer, with credits including Romeo Must Die (2000) and Double Jeopardy (1999). In the early 2000s he was part of several large-scale Vancouver-based productions, performing stunts on The Core (2003), Paycheck (2003), X2: X-Men United (2003), and I, Robot (2004). On Blade: Trinity (2004) he held a dual role, both performing stunts and playing a Security Guard on screen.

Sammel continued as a stunt performer on several genre productions filmed in British Columbia during the mid-2000s, including Fantastic Four (2005), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), AVPR: Aliens vs Predator – Requiem (2007), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), and Watchmen (2009). His 2005 stunt reel, hosted on StuntList Canada, lists his performance skills as falls, fire, water, fighting, and car work.

Battlestar Galactica

In 2009, Sammel became the stunt double for Edward James Olmos' Admiral William Adama for "The Oath" and later in "Daybreak, Part I."

Post-Battlestar Galactica credits

Following Battlestar Galactica, Sammel worked as a stunt performer on Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and Elysium (2013). He performed stunts on the British Columbia-filmed television series Continuum in 2013 and 2015 and on Nikita, and appeared as an actor in episodes of Fringe, iZombie, and Somewhere Between. His most recent listed credit is a stunt driver role in a 2018 short film. He performed stunts on Deadpool (2016).

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