Alex Terzieff Stocked the Pacific Northwest With Stunt Gear, Then Got Hired to Use It

• Alex Terzieff was a butcher for about ten years before training at Seattle’s International Stunt School.
• He bought truss, pads and airbags for the Pacific Northwest because the gear had to come up from Canada.
• Productions started renting his equipment, then started hiring him too; he now mostly coordinates.

Posted: November 2, 2026

Terzieff graduated from the International Stunt School in Seattle two days before September 11, 2001, and his first big job was HBO’s “Band of Brothers.” Twenty-six years in, the more interesting part of his story for anyone working outside a production hub is what he did about equipment. Specialised stunt gear in the Pacific Northwest was coming down from Canada, so he built his own stock of truss, pads and airbags through Seattle Stunt Company, which he founded in 2003. Productions rented the kit; then they hired the person who knew how to rig it. He is the International Stunt Association’s only member in the region.

His recent work shows the usual mix of performing and coordinating. On the live-action “How to Train Your Dragon,” shot in Belfast, he was on set daily as a performer. On “Tony,” the A24 Anthony Bourdain film with Antonio Banderas, he rigged the pier sequence — the dock jump — and also appeared in the striper run as one of the fishermen; Amy Greene was executive producer and stunt coordinator on that picture, and had previously brought him onto Netflix’s “Night Always Comes.” He is now stunt coordinator on the Seattle-shot feature “Friend Thing.”

He names Yakima Canutt as the early influence — the man who doubled John Wayne and laid down the template on “Stagecoach” and “Ben-Hur.” His daughter Ava has a small part in “Friend Thing” and has done utility stunts with him on smaller jobs.

Source: Seattle Refined — From Ballard butcher to the big screen: Meet Seattle stuntman Alex Terzieff

Learn more on IMDb: Alex Terzieff · Friend Thing (2027)