Bullet Valmont entered the film business via music videos. As a dancer, actor, stunt performer and stand-in he worked with dozens of artists (Janet Jackson, Skid Row, Mick Jagger and Nine Inch Nails
among them), becoming familiar with the filming process while
practicing acting at the Rooftop Players Workshop in Hollywood. Refining
his skills at Actors Studio West with instructor Ted Harris, he began
booking parts, usually as delinquent youths, on television series
including Christine Cromwell, TV 101, Married with Children, Santa Barbara, Confessions of Crime and Profiler.
His first major film role, as a homicidal teenager, was in Wilding: The Children of Violence,
which starred Wings Hauser. Already a prolific writer, Bullet added a
whole minute of additional dialogue to one of his scenes which director
Eric Louzil liked enough to keep in the finished cut of the film.
Next, he appeared with Arnold Schwarzenegger in a PSA for the
President's Council on Physical Fitness and soon after was cast in his
first starring role, as the stoner gas station attendant, Surf Joe, in
the comedy Big X, directed by Nigel Dick for the anthology series Inside/Out.
He also appeared in Code-9, directed by Steve Wang, The Kids From Nowhere, directed by Ben M. Richards, and Birch Street Gym,
directed by Stephen Kessler, which was nominated for the Best Short
Film Academy Award. He performed a cameo as himself in the
'gothumentary' Sex, Death and Eyeliner.
His best known characters are the Baby-Thrower in Class of Nuke 'Em High 2, and the Alley Punk who receives a balloon giraffe from Jim Carrey in The Mask.
Bullet has also worked in creature FX (on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The X-Files) and as a weapons builder (on The Scorpion King, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Matrix Reloaded and Thor).
A self-taught sword fight choreographer, he formed a dueling act with fellow The Mask actor B.J. Barie and Fragile Storm
producer Deborah Rankin. Their first performance, at the sold-out
Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, was accompanied by the 19 piece Robert
Israel Orchestra. His swashbuckling troupe has since performed at many
of L.A.'s best venues (El Rey Theatre, El Capitan, Key Club, Boobie Trap
vaudeville show, CIA Club), as well as casinos and charity events.
From 1998 to 2009 he was impressario/playwright/director of Sea of Darkness,
a live-action pirate-themed show performed at sea aboard an historic
tall-ship. Since 2006 he has directed and starred in the combat/comedy
troupe Imagine Pirates.
He portrayed the pirate, Scar, in the sci-fi/action film Timecrafters: The Treasure of Pirates Cove, which stars Malcolm McDowell, Denise Richards and Eric Balfour. Several of his Imagine Pirates troupe also appear in the film.
Bullet is the author of the theatre blog Pirate Envy, the popular advice column Wench Whisperer, and a screenplay, Passing Shower. He wrote features, interviews and an instructional column, The Art of Revenge, for Pirates, a nationally distributed print magazine. For five years he was Associate Editor and writer at the online Mutiny Magazine, contributing articles, reviews, and a column, The Newgate Gentleman's Club, about crime and punishment in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Current works-in-progress are two more screenplays, an east-coast
pirate performance troupe, two novels, and a theatrical version of Wench Whisperer.
Bullet Valmont appeared in music videos for Janet Jackson, Mick Jagger, Oingo Boingo, Mariah Carey, Skid Row, Madonna, George Michael, Dwight Yoakam, Nine Inch Nails and others before his first acting role. On television he worked with several name actors including Jaclyn Smith and Ed O'Neil, usually portraying delinquent youths. His first major film role was as Bob, a hyper-violent teenager, in Wilding: The Children of Violence, which also starred Wings Hauser. While filming Wilding he rewrote one of his scenes, adding a full minute of additional dialogue which director Eric Louzil liked enough to keep in the finished cut of the film.
His first starring role was as the stoner gas station attendant, Surf Joe, in the short film Big X directed by Nigel Dick for the anthology series Inside/Out.
He appeared with Arnold Schwarzenegger in a PSA for the President's Council on Physical Fitness.
His best known roles are the baby-throwing gang member in Class of Nuke'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown, and the Alley Punk who receives a balloon giraffe from Jim Carrey in The Mask.
Bullet also had roles in the short films Code-9, directed by Steve Wang, The Kids From Nowhere, directed by Ben M. Richards, and Birch Street Gym, directed by Stephen Kessler, which was nominated for Best Short Film at the 1992 Academy Awards. He portrayed himself in the 'gothumentary' Sex, Death and Eyeliner.
He has worked in creature effects on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The X-Files, and as a weapons fabricator on The Scorpion King, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Matrix Reloaded, and Thor.
A self-taught sword fight choreographer, Bullet formed a dueling act with fellow The Mask actor B.J. Barie, and Fragile Storm producer Deborah Rankin. They performed at the sold-out Orpheum Theatre for the premiere of a newly restored print of Douglas Fairbanks' silent classic The Black Pirate, accompanied by the 19 piece Robert Israel Orchestra.
He is the author of the blog Pirate Envy and the popular advice column Wench Whisperer. For several years he wrote The Newgate Gentlemen's Club, graphic accounts of 17th century crimes and punishments, for Mutiny Magazine. From 1998 to 2009 he was the impresario, playwright and director of Sea of Darkness, a live-action pirate-themed show performed at sea aboard an historic tall-ship. Since 2016 he has directed and starred in the combat/comedy troupe Imagine Pirates.
Bullet portrayed the pirate, Scar, in the sci-fi/action film Timecrafters: The Treasure of Pirates Cove which stars Malcolm McDowell, Denise Richards and Eric Balfour. Several of his Imagine Pirates troupe also appeared in the film.
Works-in-progress are an east coast pirate performance troupe, two novels, and a theatrical version of Wench Whisperer.
