Celebrity Biographies
David R Ellis
Known for his work on B-movies and as a second unit director on the most commercially successful films, David R. Ellis has passed away at the age of 60.
He was 60 years old, and his death has surprised Hollywood, which was counting on a new partnership of David R. Ellis and actor Samuel L. Jackson after Snakes on a Plane , both planning to start shooting within three weeks of the movie Kite , remake of a 1998 Japanese anime. At the moment the causes of Ellis’s death are unknown.
David R. Ellis was born on September 8, 1952 in Santa Monica, California. He has always been linked to the cinema, first as a child actor in Kurt Russell films , and then in action films, since he began working as a stuntman, while also training as a professional surfer. Among the films in which he acted as a stunt double, Invasion of Ultra-Corpses (1978), or Harrison Ford ‘s films about CIA analyst Jack Ryan Patriots’ Game (1992) and Imminent Danger (1994) stand out.
He had to pay attention to the action scenes in which he participated, as Ellis would become second unit director in titles such as Gorky Park (1983), or the aquatic Waterworld (1995), Esfera (1997) and Master and Commander. To the other side of the world (2003). His debut as a full-fledged lead director occurred on the doggie Homecoming 2 (1996), which was followed by another sequel, Final Destination 2 (2003).
He made a very neat thriller with Cellular (2004), starring Chris Evans and Kim Basinger , but without a doubt his most popular film is the one with the crazy plot and title that responds to the name of Snakes on the Plane (2006), never before a title explained better and with fewer words a film plot. She would return to the saga in which the future is written with The Final Destination 3D (2009), that is, more of the same in three-dimensional format, which she used again in the B series Shark 3D, the prey (2011).