Nick Dimitri

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia   Nick Dimitri is a stuntman and actor best known as Charles Bronsons veteran bareknuckle black leather coat wearing opponent in the climax of Hard Times often considered one of the best fights ever put on film The 6 2 200 pound Dimitri was a US Navy veteran and former muscleman in a Mae West Las Vegas Revue He played many tough guy parts from the late 1950s on joining the Stuntmens Association in the late 1960s In addition to fisticuffs his speciality was dying violently on screen He was a regular stuntman on the World War II TV series The Rat Patrol and a double for action actors Sean Connery and William Smith He helped set up the great fights in Darker Than Amber and Any Which Way You Can although tough guy Smith ended up doing all his own stunts Dimitri was also memorable playing Angie Dickinsons undead husband in the 1973 cult TV Movie The Norliss Tapes He later became a fixture in many of Arnold Schwarzeneggers films stood up to Steven Seagal in Out for Justice and doubled for the one arm man in the big screen version of The Fugitive Description above from the Wikipedia article Nick Dimitri licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia