Jeff Habberstad

John Jeffrey "Jeff" Habberstad is an American stuntman, actor, second unit director, and film director, best known of his work on the 2001-2006 show Alias, on films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and with director M. Night Shyamalan.

Life and career

Habberstad started his career in stunts with the 1984 films The Terminator and A Nightmare on Elm Street before moving into second unit directing work.

He has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy in the Outstanding Stunt Coordination category for his work on the TV show Alias 4 times between 2002 and 2005, winning in 2003. He is a member of the Blue Ribbon Committee at the Taurus World Stunt Awards.

Films he has served as second unit director on include Shooter, Jarhead, This Means War, Spider-Man, The Last Airbender, and Alien vs Predator: Requiem.

Filmography

Year	Title	Stunts	Second unit director	Director
1984	The Terminator	Yes	No	James Cameron
	A Nightmare on Elm Street	Yes	No	Wes Craven
1991	Point Break	Yes	No	Kathryn Bigelow
1994	It Could Happen to You	Yes	Yes	Andrew Bergman
	On Deadly Ground	Yes	No	Steven Seagal
	Stargate	Yes	No	Roland Emmerich
1995	Congo	Yes	No	Frank Marshall
1996	Broken Arrow	Yes	No	John Woo
1997	Face/Off	Yes	No
1998	Men in Black	Yes	No	Barry Sonnenfeld
	The Mark of Zorro	Yes	No	Martin Campbell
	Blade	Yes	No	Stephen Norrington
1999	The Sixth Sense	Yes	No	M. Night Shyamalan
2000	Mission: Impossible II	Yes	No	John Woo
	Mission to Mars	Yes	No	Brian De Palma
	Unbreakable	Yes	No	M. Night Shyamalan
2001–2004	Alias	Yes	Yes	Various; television series, 61 episodes
2001	Vanilla Sky	Yes	No	Cameron Crowe
2002	Spider-Man	Yes	Yes	Sam Raimi
	Minority Report	Yes	No	Steven Spielberg
	Signs	Yes	No	M. Night Shyamalan
2004	Walking Tall	Yes	Yes	Kevin Bray
2005	Jarhead	Yes	Yes	Sam Mendes
2006	Lady in the Water	Yes	No	M. Night Shyamalan
2007	Shooter	No	Yes	Antoine Fuqua
	There Will Be Blood	Yes	No	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Live Free or Die Hard	Yes	No	Len Wiseman
	Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem	No	Yes	The Brothers Strause
2008	The Happening	Yes	Yes	M. Night Shyamalan
	The Day the Earth Stood Still	No	Yes	Scott Derrickson
2009	Whiteout	Yes	No	Dominic Sena
2010	Hot Tub Time Machine	No	Yes	Steve Pink
	The Last Airbender	Yes	Yes	M. Night Shyamalan
	Eat Pray Love	Yes	No	Ryan Murphy
2011	X-Men: First Class	Yes	No	Matthew Vaughn
2012	This Mean War	No	Yes	McG
2013	After Earth	Yes	Yes	M. Night Shyamalan
	Iron Man 3	Yes	Yes	Shane Black
2014	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Yes	No	Bryan Singer
	Divergent	Yes	No	Neil Burger
	American Sniper	Yes	No	Clint Eastwood
2015	Barely Lethal	Yes	Yes	Kyle Newman
	Ant-Man	Yes	Yes	Peyton Reed
2016	Doctor Strange	Yes	Yes	Scott Derrickson
	X-Men: Apocalypse	Yes	No	Bryan Singer
2018	Ant-Man and the Wasp	No	Yes	Peyton Reed
2019	Captain Marvel	No	Yes	Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
2020	Call of the Wild	No	Yes	Chris Sanders
	The Old Guard	No	Yes	Gina Prince-Bythewood
2021	Black Widow	No	Yes	Cate Shortland
2022	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	No	Yes	Sam Raimi
2023	The Mother	No	Yes	Niki Caro
2024	The Out-Laws	No	Yes	Tyler Spindel