Article content

An Ontario-based stuntman who worked on several Hollywood movies died just before sentencing arguments were set to begin Wednesday at the Montreal courthouse in a case in which he was recently convicted of conspiring to smuggle drugs into Canada.

Defence lawyer Catherine Ranalli made the surprise announcement regarding Dean Copkov, 52, on Wednesday morning. According to his IMDB profile, Copkov, a resident of Wasaga Beach, Ont., worked as a stuntman on popular Hollywood movies like The Incredible Hulk, Pacific Rim, Pompeii, and the 2014 reboot of RoboCop. He was not shy to let it be known he was a stuntman while he was on trial in Montreal last year. He wore a T-shirt advertising a company that hired out stuntmen and stuntwomen during at least one date in the trial in which he was convicted, by a jury on Nov. 12, on two charges of conspiring to smuggle large quantities of drugs into Canada.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Movie stuntman killed on eve of sentencing in drug smuggling case Back to video

“We were just advised by a close friend. Mr. Copkov was either killed or died (Tuesday),” Ranalli told Superior Court Justice Jean-François Buffoni as he was preparing to hear sentencing arguments in a case that involved Copkov and three other men.