William De Vital
William De Vital (born 2 February 1959; age 66) provided Stunt Safety for the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Terra Nova" along with fellow stuntman Mark Ginther. They worked on the stunt rigging sequence along with Scott Bakula and stunt doubles Vince Deadrick, Jr. and Steven Lambert on Friday 17 August 2001 on Paramount Stage 9.
Prior to his emigration to the United States, De Vital worked as stunt coordinator on over 100 films and television projects in Israel and the former Soviet Union. He is holding a Theatrical Degree from the Moscow University and has been part of the stunt rigging company Leavittation, Inc. which provided their service for several episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise, headed by Lane Leavitt.
Devital performed stunts in Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003, with stunt performers Elle Alexander, Chris Blackwood, Bobby Burns, Mark Chadwick, Kiante Elam, Ousaun Elam, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Charles Grisham, Oliver Keller, Angela Meryl, Austin Priester, and Clark Tucker), Six: The Mark Unleashed (2004, with Monty Rex Perlin and Monty Cox), and Land of Plenty (2004, with Yuri Elvin and Kofi Yiadom).
He had featured stunts parts in episodes of E-Ring (2006, along Anthony Molinari) and My Own Worst Enemy (2008, starring Christian Slater and with Dennis Keiffer and stunt coordinator Ian Quinn) and worked as stunt rigger on the action drama Lords of the Underworld (2007, with Chien Funan, Derek Graf, Lane Leavitt, and Douglas Tait) and the mystery film Circle of Eight (2009, with Mark Donaldson and Lane Leavitt).
Further stunt work include Swordfish (2001), the action film The Rage Within (2001, with Fred Williamson), Blade II (2002, starring Wesley Snipes, with Ron Perlman), The Scorpion King (2002, starring Dwayne Johnson), Jackass: The Movie (2002), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008, stunt coordination by Kim Robert Koscki), the horror film Night Tales (2011), episodes of Death Valley (2011, with Theo Kypri) and Punk'd (2012), Sorority Party Massacre (2012, with Lauren Mary Kim, Cole McKay, and Tim Sitarz), Sparks (2013), Ambushed (2013), Free Fall (2014, with Malcolm McDowell and Rick Avery), the science fiction film Road Wars (2015), Maximum Ride (2016), and Astro (2018, with Spice Williams, Elle Alexander, and Kavi Raz), the television series 9-1-1 (2018, with Angela Bassett and Aisha Hinds and coordinated by Greg Barnett), and the comedy Oh Boy! (2018).
Between 2015 and 2018, De Vital worked as director, writer, producer, editor, and stunt coordinator on the films Boomerang Returns (2015, with Anthony De Longis), The Code of Cain (2016, with Monty Rex Perlin, Anthony De Longis, and Lane Leavitt), Pyos Ryzhiy (2016), and Red Dog (2018). For these films he received several nominations and wins at film festivals such as the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards, the Action on Film International Film Festival, and the Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival.