Graf has become a second unit director, working on films such as Wayne's World, The Replacements, The Waterboy, We Were Soldiers, and Jerry Maguire.
Allan Lee Graf was raised in Sylmar, California, but transferred to San Fernando High School in tenth grade.
[1] Though originally from mostly white Sylmar, Graf proved himself sufficiently as a defensive player at San Fernando to be elected captain of the more integrated Tigers team as a senior.
During USC's remarkable undefeated 1972 season, Graf played with Trojan legends Lynn Swann, Pat Haden and Sam Cunningham, helped Anthony Davis to get a record six touchdowns against rival Notre Dame, and won a national championship ring after defeating Ohio State in the 1973 Rose Bowl.
[4] Unpicked in the 1973 NFL draft, Graf attended the Los Angeles Rams' 1973 fall training camp as a free agent.
[1] While still playing for the Portland Storm, Graf had taken side work with Disney in Santa Clarita, acting as stunt double to Chicago Bears player Dick Butkus on a children's sports comedy Gus about a field goal-kicking mule.
For Friday Night Lights Graf personally interviewed over 900 candidates for a forty-man roster, including doubles for the actors involved.
After deciding on talent, Graf put together a playbook and started the roster running plays, gradually working the actors into the practices.
Especially in collaboration with Walter Hill, with whom he shares association in many movie projects, Graf's experience has grown in the action film genre, especially in the Western.
In 2004, Graf helped Hill create and execute realistic stunts for the premiere of David Milch's Deadwood television series on HBO.
In episode five of the third season, Graf's character and his camp rival Dan Dority (portrayed by William Earl Brown) engaged in a climactic and gritty five-minute bare-knuckle brawl which was described by one reviewer as "a bloody marvel.