Chris Swinney(I)
- Stunts
- Additional Crew
- Actor
From the World Trade Center on 9/11 to Hollywood, Chris Swinney has
spent 42 years in the film business.Started at 13 in The Globe Miami Vigilante's featured in Sunset Magazine as youngest gunfighter. Working From Producer,Production
Coordinator, Stunt Coordinator, Second Unit Director,Set medic, Stunt
Man, Driver, PA,Writer, he is a Vet-Firefighter and was one of the
Firefighters sent out to New York to World Trade Center on 9/11 to help
with the rescue efforts. After return he was called again to respond to
Sholow Az to fight a 500,000 acre fire. His crew was over run in Pine
Dale, Arizona when a wall of fire came over the hill side 200 ft high
and 8 miles wide.
He is called on in the film business several times as a Set Fire Safety Officer. His grandparents own the Sanchez Mine in the Arizona Mountains a town called Safford. Here he learned a lot about explosives starting at the age of 9. These attributes are what made him of value in both the World Trade Center as EOD and the Film business in stunts or pyro, and now a member of the Taurus World Stunt Acadmey.
He is called on in the film business several times as a Set Fire Safety Officer. His grandparents own the Sanchez Mine in the Arizona Mountains a town called Safford. Here he learned a lot about explosives starting at the age of 9. These attributes are what made him of value in both the World Trade Center as EOD and the Film business in stunts or pyro, and now a member of the Taurus World Stunt Acadmey.
