His real mother, Rita Hudis, played his on-screen mother in the tearful farewell scene from The Cowboys (1972). After filming was completed, the family adopted a dog and named him "Charlie" after Stephen's character in the film. The faithful, frisbee-catching, spotted-tongued mutt lived almost twenty years.
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The Stunt Coordinator & Second Unit Director for "The Cowboys", Buzz Henry was a huge influence on Stephen's eventual career path as a Stuntman, Stunt Coordinator and Second-Unit Director. An experienced, kind, careful mentor, he guided Stephen through his first on-camera stunt - sliding off the back of a specially-trained horse for his death-scene close-up. Tragically and ironically, he was killed in a 1972 car accident on - of all places - Forest Lawn Drive (right in front of the cemetery of the same name), barely a few blocks from the Warner Brothers Studio lot where the film was completed.
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After filming The Cowboys (1972), he was so enamored with horses and the real cowboys he met, he briefly pursued a Junior Rodeo career. For four years he rode bulls, broncs and competed in roping events with the "National Little Britches Rodeo Association" formerly based in Littleton, Colorado.
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He has one to two degree(s) of separation between practically anyone in The Entertainment Business, from golden-era legends to the stars and celebrities of the present-day. His "Bacon number" is two.
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At the peak of his child-acting career, he had at least two fan clubs and received an average of 500 fan letters a week. He appeared in and on the covers of 16 Magazine, 16 Spec Magazine, Tiger Beat Magazine, Look Magazine, Life Magazine and several newspapers and press releases around the world. All fan letters (including a hand-signed picture), were personally replied to first by a form letter, created by his father, Norman Hudis, and if the fan wrote back, a more personalized response was ensured by his father's painstaking (and non-computerized) record-keeping and cross-referencing.
Stunts
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Horde
2016
stunt performer
Of Fortune and Gold
2015
Roughneck #4 / stunt coordinator
How Sweet It Is
2013
stunt coordinator
Southland
2013
TV Series stunt player - 1 episode
Stone Markers
2012
stunt coordinator
Bad Blood
2012/III
stunt coordinator
Area 407
2012
stunt coordinator
Five Reasons to Kill Casper Moronii
2009
Short stunt coordinator
Castle
2009
TV Series stunt driver - 2 episodes
Hydra
2009
TV Movie stunt coordinator
Impact Point
2008
stunt performer
CSI: NY
2008
TV Series stunt performer - 1 episode
Aaah! Zombies!!
2007
stunt performer - as Steve Hudis
Half Past Dead 2
2007
Video stunts
The Faithful
2007
Short stunt coordinator
Murder in the West
2006
Short stunt coordinator
Sleepwalk
2006
Short stunt coordinator
The Pros and Cons of Breathing
2006
Short stunt coordinator
The Honeyfields
2006
Short stunt coordinator
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders
2006
stunt coordinator
The Red Veil
2005
Short stunt coordinator
Diamond Zero
2005
stunt double: Bronson Pinchot / utility stunts
One Among Us
2005
stunt coordinator
Dishdogz
2005
stunts: second unit
Return to Sender
2004/I
stunt rigger
Jihad
2004
Short stunt coordinator
Larceny
2004
utility stunts
Devil's Knight
2003
stunt driver
Black Cadillac
2003
stunt driver
Detonator
2003
utility stunts
Sabretooth
2002
TV Movie utility stunts
Nightstalker
2002
co-stunt coordinator
Terminal Error
2002
stunt double: Matthew Ewald - as Steve Hudis / stunt driver - as Steve Hudis
Separate Ways
2001
stunt coordinator / stunt double: Leo Rossi
Gangland
2001
stunt double
Route 666
2001
stunt double: L.Q. Jones - as Steve Hudis
The Yellow Bird
2001
Short stunt coordinator
I Dare You
2000
TV Series bus jump
Road Dogz
2000
stunt coordinator
Highway 395
2000
stunt double / stunt driving double: Tim Thomerson/Jimmie Skaggs
