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Soucek, severely injured, was still alive when he was cut from the barrel but died while the Astrodome stunt show was still going on. Stuntman Evel Knievel had tried to persuade Soucek not to go through with the stunt, calling it "the most dangerous I've ever seen". [4] Soucek is buried at the Drummond Hill Cemetery in Niagara Falls, Ontario ...
Dar Allen Robinson (March 26, 1947 – November 21, 1986) was an American stunt performer and actor. Robinson broke 19 world records and set 21 "world's firsts." [1] He invented the decelerator (use of dragline cables rather than airbags for a "high fall gag", [citation needed] or a stunt calling for a jump from a high place) which allowed a cameraman to film a top-down view of the stuntman as ...
He hit his head on a rock, causing part of his skull to crack and a fragment to lodge in his brain. He now has a plastic plug in a permanent hole in his skull and hearing-loss in the right ear and has since called this stunt "the closest (he) had ever come to death." [219] Vendetta dal futuro (Hands of Steel, 1986).
Tom Cruise is pushing himself to the limit for his next project. In a video shared to social media on Monday, fans got an inside look at how Cruise prepared to complete the most dangerous stunt of ...
"Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One" star Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie talk about the "most dangerous" stunt they've ever done for this latest installment.
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McCandlish hit a ledge, plunged over a cliff and fell to another ledge to his death. Australian BASE jumper Chris "Douggs" McDougall, who witnessed the accident noted how McCandlish was wearing a new suit for the jump and may have misjudged his ability to turn. [25] McDougall wrote that the accident was a result of "100% human error". [26]
Here are 10 of the craziest and most exhilarating stunts ever pulled in America. Man on Wire/Magnolia Pictures. 1. Philippe Petit’s Twin Towers Tightrope Walk.