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Gary Edelen, Hollywood stuntman. The Kennewick High grad headed to California to work on building movie sets after growing up in Tri-Cities. After a while he worked himself into stunt work for ...
Stuntmen Frank Tully and Tony Brack were killed in an auto accident. The footage is in the film. [21] The Desert Fiddler (1924). Stunt swimmer William Harbaugh drowned while filming a water scene in the Colorado River near Laguna Dam. [21] The King of Wild Horses (1924). An Arabian horse fell on C.P. "Chick" Morrison shortly after filming was ...
Grant Page, a stuntman who worked on the Mad Max films, has died in a car crash, aged 85.. The “legendary” stunt performer’s death was announced by his son Leroy, with details revealing he ...
Country music star Spade Cooley died from a heart attack while backstage during the intermission of a benefit concert in Oakland, California on 23 November. Cooley was serving a life term in prison for beating his wife to death in front of their daughter, and played the show on a weekend furlough.
Hollywood stuntman and martial artist Gene LeBell has died. He was 89. Professional wrestler Bas Rutten announced LeBell’s death via Facebook, writing, “You will be greatly missed Gene, I love ...
Born in Santa Monica, California, on February 11, 1932, [4] Yerkes began a life of acrobatics in the circus at the age of 15. [5] He began his career in film stunts in 1948, and went on to work as a stuntman in such films as Back to the Future, Return of the Jedi, and Hook. [4]
He retired from stunt work in 1981, and from acting in 1989. Hayward was a member of the unofficial John Ford Stock Company, a lifetime member of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures and an inductee into the Stuntmen's Hall of Fame. He died from Hodgkin's Disease at his home in North Hollywood, California, in 1998. [2]
Chris Pratt. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Chris Pratt is mourning the death of his former stunt double, Tony McFarr. McFarr died on Monday, May 13, at age 47, at his home outside of Orlando, Florida ...