Dimitri, a prolific Hollywood stuntman, actor, and bodybuilder, has had a remarkable career spanning over three decades. With his athletic build, he initially got involved in the film industry in the late 1950s, contributing stunt work to popular TV series such as 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and Route 66 (1960).
Throughout his career, Dimitri has taken on a wide range of roles, from tough thugs and vicious hoodlums to a living dead sculptor. He made his acting debut in the 1962 film Kid Galahad, followed by appearances in The Train (1964) and Ambushers, The (1967).
One of his most memorable roles was as an artist who returns from the dead, seeking blood to build a hideous statue and terrorize Angie Dickinson in the TV pilot The Norliss Tapes (1973). He also impressed as a ruthless bare-knuckle fighter hired by white-collar gangsters to slug it out with Charles Bronson in the gritty Hard Times (1975).
Dimitri remained perpetually busy during the 1980s, contributing stunts and acting appearances in many action-oriented TV shows, including Knight Rider (1982),The A-Team (1983),MacGyver (1985),and Hunter (1984).
In the 1990s, Dimitri continued to make a name for himself, tangling with cop Steven Seagal in a pool room brawl in Out for Justice (1991) and being knocked out cold by a bomb-laden corpse as Arnold Schwarzenegger made his escape for a gangster's lavish rooftop funeral in Last Action Hero (1993).
As a longtime member of the well-known Stuntmen's Association, Dimitri has earned minor cult status amongst some movie fans for his "tough as nails" screen characters.
