Ben Hernandez Bray
Ben Hernandez Bray is a film and television director who was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in one of the toughest San Fernando Valley neighborhoods. He's the oldest of six children, raised by his Mother and Grandmother and is of Mexican and Irish descent. In the late 1980's his boxing skills led him into the stunt industry where he then became one of the very few successful latino stuntmen in Hollywood and eventually becoming one of the top action stunt coordinators and second unit directors, working specifically with "Smoking Aces" Joe Carnahan and "Silver Linings Playbook" David O Russell. After twenty five plus years in the industry and over one hundred fifty film and tv credits, Mr Bray made his television directorial debut in 2015 with Katie Heigl's tv series "State of Affairs" for NBC/Universal, he then went on to direct episodes for Fox/Bruckheimer, CW/Greg Berlanti and ABC/Freeform. In 2018 will be Bray's feature film debut which he co-wrote with Joe Carnahan called "El Chicano" a Mexican Super hero story about two brothers growing up in East L.A. The story was inspired and originally written by Bray 10 years earlier after losing his youngest brother to gang violence. The film is being produced by War Party Productions and Lorenzo di Bonaventura.
Known for
The Lincoln Lawyer
Walker
Big Sky
9-1-1: Lone Star
Bad Boys for Life
El Chicano
The Enemy Within
Roswell, New Mexico
A Star Is Born
S.W.A.T.
Queen of the South
Lucifer
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Shadowhunters
Supergirl
McFarland, USA
The Gambler
State of Affairs
Ouija
Stretch
Life After Beth
Earth to Echo
American Hustle
Out of the Furnace
Evidence
Trust Me
Channeling
Silver Linings Playbook
Arrow
Savages
The Three Stooges
The Grey
Real Steel
The A-Team
Sympathy for Delicious
Powder Blue
Crank: High Voltage
Lakeview Terrace
Iron Man
Stiletto
The Ruins
Breaking Bad
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Smokin' Aces
Day Break
Unknown
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Island
The Closer
Funky Monkey
I ♥ Huckabees
National Security
Ticker
Without a Trace
CSI: Miami
She Spies
The Shield
The Hurricane
Courage Under Fire
Blue Tiger