peoplepill id: guy-manos
GM
United States of America
1 views today
1 views this week
Guy Manos
American skydiver and filmmaker

Guy Manos

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
American skydiver and filmmaker
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Cleveland
Age
65 years
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Guy Manos (born September 7, 1959) is a former world champion skydiver and multiple world record holder, and a screenwriter, film director, and stuntman. He is a graduate of the University of Miami Film School.

Skydiving career

Manos has over 10,000 skydives to his credit and was a member of the DeLand Air Bears who won the 4-way World Championship in 1985.

A number of skydiving records were set or organised by Manos, including the world's first 2-point 100 way.

Skydiving Magazine named Manos 'Skydiver of the Year' in 1992.

Film career

Manos featured in a number of skydiving fraternity video features as skydive photography became popular through the 1980s, and followed his involvement in the Norman Kent production From Wings Came Flight by directing and producing Flight of the Dream Team, a documentary.

Manos was a writer for the 1994 Hollywood action skydiving film Drop Zone and a stunt double for Gary Busey.

He co-wrote the screenplay for and directed the 2000 action-adventure film Cutaway, about a U.S. Customs agent getting involved in skydiving as part of a sting operation targeting parachuting drug smugglers.

He directed action units in Drop Zone, Shadow Ops, Eraser and Get Smart, and has performed stunts in dozens of Hollywood films, including Virus, Last Action Hero, Eraser, George of the Jungle, Cliffhanger, and Get Smart.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Guy Manos is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Guy Manos
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes