who plays the stunt man in the geico commercial
Blake Gibbons
title: Matthew John Armstrong text: 2012, he was recognised as a Naperville Central Allumni. Armstrong reportedly has been mistaken as one of the actors who portray cavemen in a popular series of commercials for the automobile insurance provider GEICO, due to his hairstyle and facial hair resembling the makeup used for the caveman characters. Armstrong noted this misconception in an interview with "Entertainment Weekly" stating, "For the record, I am not the GEICO caveman." He is married to Ashley Crow, the actress who portrayed Sandra Bennet on "Heroes". Matthew John Armstrong Matthew John Armstrong (born August 28, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American title: GEICO advertising campaigns text: computer animation got better and as we got to know the character better, we did a few things," says Steve Bassett, creative director at The Martin Agency. "We wanted to make him a little more guy-next-door. And he looks a lot more real than he's looked before." Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former president Bill Clinton and then-Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, interviewed the Geico Gecko in April 2013. He had since became GEICO's longest-running mascot, appearing in more than 150 commercials as of 2017. Maxwell is an anthropomorphic talking pig and recurring character in GEICO title: GEICO advertising campaigns text: car insurance. Even if you made a few mistakes."; later modified to "We all do dumb things. Paying too much for car insurance doesn't have to be one of them." The company's ads sometimes focus on its reptilian mascot, the Geico Gecko, an anthropomorphic Day Gecko, created by The Martin Agency, modified in 2005 to a CGI character by Animation Director David Hulin and his team at Framestore. The gecko first appeared in 2000, during the Screen Actors Guild strike that prevented the use of live actors. The original commercial features the Gecko who climbs onto a microphone on a title: GEICO advertising campaigns text: site includes cameo appearances by Lauren Wallace and drivers Mike Wallace, his daughter Chrissy Wallace, Speed TV's Tommy Kendall, Paul Tracy, Christian Fittipaldi and Max Papis. Introduced in 2 August 2007, this series of ads features an "E! True Hollywood Story"-type show about famed fictional characters such as Fred Flintstone, Jed Clampett, and even a Cabbage Patch Kid named Ben Winkler claiming to have their cars (the Flintmobile, Jed's 1923 Oldsmobile truck, and a Plymouth Reliant/Dodge Aries, respectively) insured by GEICO, featuring interviews with made-up investigators (however, the Ben Winkler spot does not have an interview). These commercials were voiced title: GEICO text: through their website. Its mascot is a gold dust day gecko with a Cockney accent, voiced by English actor Jake Wood. GEICO is well known in popular culture for its advertising, having made a large number of commercials intended to entertain viewers. GEICO was founded in 1936 by Leo Goodwin Sr. and his wife Lillian Goodwin to provide auto insurance directly to federal government employees and their families. Since 1925, Goodwin had worked for USAA as an insurer who specialized in insuring only military personnel. He decided to start his own company after rising as far as a civilian could