--- name: "Scott Waugh" canonical: "https://film.one/person/scott-waugh" fi1m_id: "scott-waugh" imdb_id: "nm0915304" tmdb_id: 293911 wikidata_id: "Q7437478" roles: ["Director"] born: "1 January 1970" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-05T02:34:56.354945+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Scott Waugh ## Identity Scott Waugh - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/scott-waugh - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** scott-waugh - **IMDb ID:** nm0915304 - **TMDB ID:** 293911 - **Wikidata ID:** Q7437478 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Waugh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7437478, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915304/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/293911 Director. Born 1 January 1970 in USA. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 1 January 1970, USA - **Active:** 2002–present - **Also known as:** Scott Blake - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 directing - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 52 (1), 2020s 56 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Waugh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7437478, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915304/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/293911 ## Fi1m on Scott Waugh > Scott Waugh can make a car stunt worth sitting up for. We are less persuaded by his handling of people: in *Runner*, the jokes, violence and sentiment keep getting in one another’s way. The moving vehicles in *Runner* (2026) have a force its fights cannot match. Scott Waugh seems most certain of what he is doing when a car stunt can hold our attention without an accompanying joke or plea for sympathy. We enjoyed these passages because the movement itself supplied excitement that the changes of mood elsewhere kept interrupting. Cinematographer Lorenzo Senatore shares the credit for the car action, though it is not enough to make the film a recommendation. Waugh came to directing from stunt work, and his preference for practical action on location helps explain that confidence. After documentaries and commercials, he co-directed *Act of Valor* (2012) with Mike McCoy, using active-duty Navy SEALs in his first narrative feature. *Need for Speed* (2014), adapted from the video game, made extensive use of practical car stunts. He puts cameras inside vehicles and among performers, keeping us close to the people doing the dangerous work. By *Expend4bles* (2023), he was directing an established franchise ensemble, including Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham. *Runner* gives that approach a harder test by asking the action to sit alongside buddy comedy and sentiment. Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson are agreeable company, and their bickering gives Waugh something to work with between stunts. But the film’s severe violence makes the quick returns to comedy feel careless. When it then asks for sympathy, the characters have not been developed enough to earn it. His practice of planning set pieces around locations and characters’ emotions does not solve the problem here; the people need more substance before their danger can matter. We would approach Waugh for the stunt work and keep expectations of the drama modest. The confidence of those driving sequences gives us a reason to look again, but not to excuse the stretches where a film cannot decide how it wants us to react. If he returns to this sort of action comedy, a little more time spent on the people between collisions would help. ## Biography Scott Waugh is an American film director, producer and former stunt performer. He began his career as a stunt performer at the age of 12, following in the footsteps of his father, stuntman Fred Waugh, and retired from stunts in his early thirties to focus on directing. His feature directorial credits include the co-directed war film *Act of Valor* (2012), *Need for Speed* (2014), *6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain* (2017), *Hidden Strike* (2023), *Expend4bles* (2023) and *Runner* (2026). He won the "10 Directors to Watch" award at the 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival. He is the younger brother of director Ric Roman Waugh and holds a BFA from the University of California. *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, variety.com, the-numbers.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Performed in (1) - *xXx* (2002), Fi1m 52, as Stockbroker — [page](https://film.one/film/xxx.md) ### Directed (1) — the average rests on these - *Runner* (2026), Fi1m 56, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/runner.md) ## Complete filmography (31) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Runner* (2026), Director — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/runner.md) - *Expend4bles* (2023), Director - *Hidden Strike* (2023), Director, Editor - *6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain* (2017), Director, Editor, Producer - *Need for Speed* (2014), Director, Editor, Executive Producer - *Act of Valor* (2012), Producer, Director, Editor - *Feast* (2005), Stunts - *Mr. & Mrs. Smith* (2005), Utility Stunts — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/mr-and-mrs-smith-2005.md) - *Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation* (2004), Stunts - *Spartan* (2004), Stunt Double - *Torque* (2004), as Red Car Driver · Stunt Coordinator - *The Italian Job* (2003), Stunts — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-italian-job-2003.md) - *National Security* (2003), Stunts - *xXx* (2002), as Stockbroker — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/xxx.md) - *Not Another Teen Movie* (2001), Stunts - *The One* (2001), Stunts - *The Princess Diaries* (2001), Stunts - *In the Shadows* (2001), as Graham - *The Weight of Water* (2001), Stunts - *Bicentennial Man* (1999), as Motorcycle Punk - *12 Bucks* (1998), Writer, Producer - *Volcano* (1997), Stunts - *Escape from L.A.* (1996), Stunts - *Exit* (1996), as Eddie - *Spy Hard* (1996), Stunts - *Sudden Death* (1995), Stunts - *Virtuosity* (1995), Stunts - *Last Action Hero* (1993), Stunts — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/last-action-hero.md) - *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992), Stunts — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-of-the-mohicans.md) - *Eye in the Sky*, Director - *Breakout*, Director --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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