Steve Boyum
Steve Boyum  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  second season episode . He filmed his scenes under Stunt Coordinator Dennis Madalone on Friday  on Paramount Stage 16 as listed on the call sheet. Re-used scenes from this appearance were later included in the clip show .

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 the drama Search for the Gods (1975, with Gary Epper and Henry Kingi, Sr.), the drama Bound for Glory (1976, coordination by Buddy Joe Hooker), the sports film Big Wednesday (1978, with Joel Schultz), the music film Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978, with Glenn R. Wilder, David Richard Ellis, and Alan Oliney), the comedy Skatetown USA (1979), and the war comedy 1941 (1979).

Boyum was one of the stunt performers on the Academy Award-winning war drama Apocalypse Now (1979). Fellow Star Trek alumni Albert Hall and Paul Lambert worked on this film as well. 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. 

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  in the Western The Mountain Men (1980) and for Gerrit Graham in the comedy Used Cars (1980) and had memorable parts in the science fiction thriller Rollerball (1975), the comedy Herbie Goes Bananas (1980), and the science fiction thriller Predator (1987).

Among his numerous stunt credits are the comedy The Blues Brothers (1980), the crime thriller Action Jackson (1988), the comedy Twins (1988), the action sequels Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) and Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), the sports drama Days of Thunder (1990), the crime drama Thelma & Louise (1991), the action film The Last Boyscout (1991), the fantasy comedy Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), the thriller Falling Down (1993), the action thriller True Lies (1994), the thriller Sudden Death (1995), and the comedy 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 (1983-1986), 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 the horror thriller Just Before Dawn (1981), the fantasy film The Beastmaster (1982), the television series Stringray (1987) and Werewolf (1987-1988), the crime drama Dead Again (1991), the crime drama White Sands (1992), the thriller Patriot Games (1992), the thriller Sliver (1993), the war drama Gettysburg (1993), the comedy Heavyweights (1995), the music drama Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), and the sports films 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 the comedy Groundhog Day (1993), the sports film Airborne (1993), the comedy Jingle All the Way (1996), the comedy That Darn Cat (1997), the comedy George of the Jungle (1997), the sports drama Mystery, Alaska (1999), and the action thriller Primeval (2007).

Among his credits as director are the comedy Meet the Deedles (1998), the science fiction sequel Timecop: The Berlin Decision (2003), and several episodes of Cold Case (2006), Close to Home (2007), Bionic Woman (2007), Jericho (2008), Numb3rs (2007-2009), Criminal Minds (2006-2009), Harper's Island (2009), The Cleaner (2008-2009), NCIS: Los Angeles (2009-2010), Human Target (2010-2011), Castle (2011), Hawaii Five-0 (2011-2013), Revolution (2012-2014), Forever (2014), Supernatural (2006-2015), Rush Hour (2016), Black Sails (2015-2017), Lethal Weapon (2016-2018), The Boys (2020), and Blood & Treasure (2019-2022). He also worked as supervising producer on Human Target (2010-2011) and as co-executive producer on Hawaii Five-0 (2011-2012), Rush Hour (2016), Black Sails (2015-2017), Lethal Weapon (2016-2018), and Blood & Treasure (2022).

Today, Boyum resides with his wife in Malibu, California.

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