Eddie Matthews

Eddie Matthews was born in Des Moines Iowa where he grew up hunting fishing and playing baseball where Field of Dreamswas made He Went to Arizona State university to college hoping eventually to be a professional baseball player but found out quickly he was lacking in only a couple areas size speed talent or he would have been great haha Eddie was an extra on a movie filming in Phoenix Used cars in 1980 where he met some of the top veteran stunt people in the business whom said if you want to be in the stunt biz you must move to LA It was then he realized a career as a stuntman was an opportunity to be a professional athlete while getting to play a wide variety of sports So after moving to La La Land He quickly realized like the thousands before him it can takes many yrs to get one job let alone make a living Having a diving trampoline background he started working with a professional high diving company doing high dive shows at Six Flags theme park in Los Angeles Also Having a Masters degree in family counseling and Eddies favorite movie being Rain Manand One flew over the cuckoos nest he started working as a counselor in various Psychiatric hospitals in LA He also worked and lived for 5 yrs in a residential home for Autistic adultsthese were now his roommates And it was the Rain Man movie on steroids every day for five yrs This prepared him for any craziness that Hollyweird might throw at him Eddie then got a good job at Universal Studios Hollywood playing the Don Johnson character in the Miami Vice stunt show for the next 6 yrs where he started meeting more people in the industry and began getting more frequent outside stunt jobs And after many fights falls explosions later later he was honored to be voted into the prestigious Stuntmens Association of Motion Pictures group where many of the older pioneers legends of the stunt industry were still working Now Working Over 35 yrs Eddie has had the opportunity to stunt coordinate movies produce a western and stunt double for such actors as Matthew Broderick in Ferris Buellers Day off Dennis Hopper in Speed Robert De Niro in Casino And many others including Sylvestor Stallone Chris Farley Mar Walberg Richard Gere Charlie Sheen Anthony Hopkins JeanClaude Van Dam Johnny Depp Dennis Quaid and many others Having the opportunity to work with many celebrities he has witnessed behind the scenes many broken lives It became obvious that everyone in the world whether rich or poor cannot avoid the storms and trials of life and no amount of fame fortune or awards can bring any lastly peace or fulfillment without the peace of God Eddies vision mission now is to produce and work on impactful family friendly stories like Rain Man Brave Heart Forest Gump the Sandlot etc where unlikely people overcome great odds