Actor / Director Profile

Johnny Martin has recently completed producing the principal photography on the latest Christian Slater feature film project titled Lie and Illusion through Sony Pictures. Johnny's prior projects in the lst 2 years have been "Hero Wanted" and "Redline", a 25 million dollar budget about a underground race betting ring with the highest end race cars made today, also "End Game" with Cuba Gooding Jr., James Woods, Burt Reynolds, Anne Archer and Angie Harmon. Born in San Leandro, California, Martin has been in the film and television business since he was eighteen years old. He began as a Stuntman and soon worked his way into being an award-winning Stunt Coordinator and Second Unit Director. He has worked in these capacities on over 140 feature films and over 45 television shows and 50 commercials. In 1995 Martin was the Stunt Coordinator for the award-winning Lil Caesars "Stretch" commercial. In 2001 he was nominated "Best Coordinator of the Year," by the World Stunt Awards Association for the feature film 'Gone in 60 Seconds," a Bruckheimer/Disney production. In 2003 he launched Martini Films. He produced three films that year. His vast hands-on experience on such a large body of work makes him the perfect compliment to any executive team. The extensive list of films Martin has been involved in, include "Titanic," Matrix Reloaded," Terminator 2," Italian Job," The Rock," Enemy of the State," and Armageddon." He is a member of DGA, SAG and AFTRA and is represented at ICM Agency in Beverly Hills. He currently has a production deal under his Martini Films banner with the Sci-fi Channel, where he's already produced two highly rated features "Larva" & "Skeleton Man" which both received Sci-fi channels premiere of the yea