The film became famous for two vehicle stunts, one which made the Guinness Book of Records. As part of a significant product placement strategy, a number of vehicles from American Motors Corporation were featured in the movie. The flying car was the newly introduced AMC Matador Brougham Coupe in the Oleg Cassini edition, used by Francisco Scaramanga, along with Nick Nack, to kidnap Mary Goodnight. With the wings, the stunt car was long, wide, and high. A stuntman drove the "car plane" to a runway. It was not airworthy, so a -long remote controlled model, built by John Stears, was used for the aerial sequences.
Car stunts
The Man with the Golden Gun (film)
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Car stunts
Yes, a stuntman drove the "car plane" to a runway. Yes, The film became famous for two vehicle stunts, one which made the Guinness Book of Records. Loren Yes, the stunt was performed by Loren “Bumps” Willert.
where does the man with the golden gun take place
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Britain
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who are the actors?
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Christopher Lee, Joseph Wiseman, Britt Ekland
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is this a movie?
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Yes
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who composed the music?
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John Barry
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when was it released?
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Released in the United Kingdom the same day it was premiered
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can you please name some movies the third actress acted in?
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"The Night They Raided Minsky's", "Get Carter", "The Wicker Man"
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did the original movie have stunt men?
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A 1974 AMC Hornet X was used for the "corkscrew" stunt which was first tested as a computer-simulation (the first of its kind) by Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory. It was then performed as a live-action stunt, successfully filmed in one take. The stunt was performed by Loren “Bumps” Willert.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Car stunts
The film became famous for two vehicle stunts, one which made the Guinness Book of Records. As part of a significant product placement strategy, a number of vehicles from American Motors Corporation were featured in the movie. The flying car was the newly introduced AMC Matador Brougham Coupe in the Oleg Cassini edition, used by Francisco Scaramanga, along with Nick Nack, to kidnap Mary Goodnight. With the wings, the stunt car was long, wide, and high. A stuntman drove the "car plane" to a runway. It was not airworthy, so a -long remote controlled model, built by John Stears, was used for the aerial sequences.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Car stunts
Academy Award winner Oswald Morris was hired to finish the job after cinematographer Ted Moore became ill. Morris was initially reluctant, as he did not like his previous experiences taking over other cinematographers' work, but accepted after dining with Broccoli. Production wrapped in Pinewood in August 1974. One of the main stunts in the film consisted of stunt driver Loren “Bumps” Willert (as James Bond) driving an AMC Hornet leaping a broken bridge and spinning around 360 degrees in mid-air about the longitudinal axis, doing an "aerial twist"; Willert successfully completed the jump on the first take, and was given a $30,000 bonus on the spot.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Filming
The stunt was shown in slow motion, for the scene was otherwise too fast. Composer John Barry added a slide whistle sound effect over the stunt, which Broccoli kept in despite thinking that it "undercouped the stunt". Barry later regretted his decision, thinking the whistle "broke the golden rule" as the stunt was "for what it was all worth, a truly dangerous moment, ... true James Bond style". The sound effect was described as "simply crass". The writer Jim Smith suggested that the stunt "brings into focus the lack of excitement in the rest of the film and is spoilt by the use of 'comedy' sound effects." Eon Productions had licensed the stunt, which had been designed by Raymond McHenry.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Filming
The Stunt Man is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Richard Rush, starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, and Barbara Hershey. The film was adapted by Lawrence B. Marcus and Rush from the 1970 novel of the same name by Paul Brodeur. It tells the story of a young fugitive who hides as a stunt double on the set of an World War I movie whose charismatic director will do seemingly anything for the sake of his art. It was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Peter O'Toole), Best Director (Richard Rush), and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
The Stunt Man | Introduction
Hershey landed a role in Richard Rush's "The Stunt Man" (1980), marking a return to the big screen after four years and earning her critical praise. Hershey felt that she would be forever in debt to Rush for fighting with financiers to allow her a part in that film. She also felt "The Stunt Man" was an important transition for her, from playing girls to playing women. Some of the "women roles" that followed "The Stunt Man" included the horror movie "The Entity" (1982); Philip Kaufman's "The Right Stuff" (1983), in which she played Glennis Yeager, wife of test pilot Chuck Yeager; and "The Natural" (1984), in which she shot Robert Redford's character, inspired by a real-life incident where Ruth Ann Steinhagen shot ballplayer Eddie Waitkus.
Barbara Hershey | 1980s
In past Hollywood films it was common for men to double for women and White American stunt performers to double for African American performers, in a practice known as "wigging". Veteran stunt man Dave Sharpe, a man of shorter than average height, often doubled for women in film serials of the 1930s and '40s. Veteran stunt performer Jeannie Epper, who doubled for Linda Carter in Wonder Woman, explained that the situation improved in the 1970's as actresses did not want to be doubled by men, and could be more convincingly doubled by a woman. SAG-AFTRA union rules for stunt performers say that that to double an actor of a different gender or race the stunt must be so dangerous that there are no volunteers available of the appropriate gender or race.
Stunt | Equality in stunts
Production wrapped in Pinewood in August 1974. One of the main stunts in the film consisted of stunt driver "Bumps" Willard (as James Bond) driving an AMC Hornet leaping a broken bridge and spinning around 360 degrees in mid-air about the longitudinal axis, doing an "aerial twist"; Willard successfully completed the jump on the first take. The stunt was shown in slow motion as the scene was too fast. Composer John Barry added a slide whistle sound effect over the stunt, which Broccoli kept in despite thinking that it "undercouped the stunt". Barry later regretted his decision, thinking the whistle "broke the golden rule" as the stunt was "for what it was all worth, a truly dangerous moment, ...
Filming of James Bond in the 1970s | "The Man with the Golden Gun"
Carmichael was a stuntman in more than 50 films, including "Jim Thorpe – All-American" (1951) for Burt Lancaster (1951), "Saturday's Hero" (1951), "All-American" (1953), "Pork Chop Hill" (1959), "It Started with a Kiss" (1959), "The Big Operator", "Elmer Gantry" (1960), one of the doubles for Kirk Douglas in "Spartacus" (1960), "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962), "Son of Flubber" (1962), smf "How the West was Won" (1962), and the TV show "Rawhide".
Al Carmichael | Stunt double
It was initially conceived at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (CAL) in Buffalo, New York as a test for their vehicle simulation software. After development in simulation, ramps were built and the stunt was tested at CAL's proving ground. It toured as part of the All American Thrill Show as the Astro Spiral before it was picked up for the film. The television programme "Top Gear" attempted to repeat the stunt in June 2008, but failed. The scene where Scaramanga's Matador flies was shot at Bovington Camp, with a model inspired by an actual car plane prototype. Bond's duel with Scaramanga, which Mankewicz said was inspired by the climactic faceoff in "Shane", was shortened as the producers felt it was causing pacing problems.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Filming
Said Rush: "They couldn't figure out if it was a comedy, a drama, if it was a social satire, if it was an action adventure...and, of course, the answer was, 'Yes, it's all those things.' But that isn't a satisfactory answer to a studio executive." Rush then bought the film rights from Columbia and shopped the film to other studios, to no avail. Funding for the picture finally came from Melvin Simon who had made a fortune in real estate.
The Stunt Man | Production
"The Stunt Man" received three Oscar nominations:
The Stunt Man | Nominations
true James Bond style". The sound effect was described as "simply crass", with one writer, Jim Smith, suggesting that the stunt "brings into focus the lack of excitement in the rest of the film and is spoilt by the use of 'comedy' sound effects." Eon Productions had licensed the stunt, which had been designed by Raymond McHenry; the stunt was initially conceived at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (CAL) in Buffalo, New York as a test for their powerful vehicle simulation software. After development in simulation, ramps were built and the stunt was tested at CAL's proving ground. It toured as part of the All American Thrill Show as the Astro Spiral before it was picked up for the film.
Filming of James Bond in the 1970s | "The Man with the Golden Gun"
Simmons was also Connery's stunt double. Simmons also had a role as SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, "Thunderball". Simmons developed a stunt technique involving trampolines, first used in "You Only Live Twice", whereby stuntmen would bounce off a trampoline in concert with a triggered explosion so as to simulate being blown into the air. This was used in many other films, including by Simmons again in "The Wild Geese", where Simmons also doubled for Richard Burton.
Bob Simmons (stunt man) | Biography
The next morning, La Cava showed up for shooting with a headache, but Powell didn't appear. Instead, the actor sent a telegram stating: "WE MAY HAVE FOUND GODFREY LAST NIGHT BUT WE LOST POWELL. SEE YOU TOMORROW." Due to insurance considerations a stand-in stuntman (Chick Collins) was used when Godfrey carried Irene over his shoulder up the stairs to her bedroom.
My Man Godfrey | Shooting
gamesmanship is almost all it manages to be". Jay Scott called it "[t]he best movie about making a movie ever made, but the achievement merely begins there. ... Imagine a picture an eight-year-old and Wittgenstein could enjoy with equal fervor." Critic Pauline Kael considered it "a virtuoso piece of kinetic moviemaking" and rated it one of year's best films. She called O'Toole's comic performance "peerless".
The Stunt Man | Reception
Producer/actor Harold Lloyd's film "Safety Last!" of 1923, is often considered one of the first to deploy thought-through safety devices and pre-planning in the execution of its filming and stunts. In the script, Lloyd's "country boy" character goes to the city to be a success, and ends up climbing a tall building as a stunt. Critics at the time claimed it to be the most spectacular daredevil thrill comedy. The entire stunt sequence was shot on location at the Atlantic Hotel in Broadway, Los Angeles (demolished 1957), at actual heights. But the films directors Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor planned into two safety features: Producer Hal Roach and Lloyd had been forced into the costs of planning and construction of these safety devices, as simply without them the city commissioners had refused the production a film permit.
Stunt performer | "Safety Last!"
As a stunt performer, she worked on films, including "Fanny by Gaslight" (1944). She appeared as herself performing some of her strength feats in the Vernon Sewell-directed crime caper, "Johnny, You're Wanted" (1956). She also appeared in "Burke and Hare" (1971), "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (1976) and "The Elephant Man" (1980).
Joan Rhodes | Stunts
In 1937, age 16, Farnsworth was working as a stable hand at a polo field in Los Angeles for $6 a week when he was offered employment with better pay as a stuntman. He rode horses in films such as "The Adventures of Marco Polo" featuring Gary Cooper and performed horse-riding stunts in films including "A Day at the Races" (1937) and "Gunga Din" (1939). Farnsworth was employed on the set of "Spartacus" (1960) for 11 months in which he drove a chariot.
Richard Farnsworth | Stunt work
The preference to employ ready existing professionals from outside the film industry, either as performers or doubles, continued in the period both up to and beyond World War II, when again the industry was awash with young, fit men looking for work. However, in 1958 "Thunder Road" starring Robert Mitchum, with stunt coordinator was Cary Loftin and a stunt team including Ray Austin, Neil Castes Sr., Robert Hoy, and Dale Van Sickel, introduced the era of the car chase movie. With the later development of modern action movie, the accident rate of both stunt performers and movie stars started to quickly increase.
Stunt performer | Action movies
"The Stunt Man" won Rush Oscar nominations for best director and best script.
Richard Rush (director) | "The Stunt Man"
The window was made of fragile sugar glass that took two hours to set up; there were only a few takes for this reason. A team of stuntmen positioned below the window dragged the hosepipe and pulled Willis towards the edge. Stuntmen were preferred over a hoist, as they could better control Willis' fall if he went over the edge. The scene where McClane falls down a ventilation shaft and catches onto a lower opening was the result of Willis' stuntman accidentally falling further than intended. Frank Urioste kept the scene when he worked on the editing. For Gruber's fall from Nakatomi Plaza, Rickman was dropped between and ; reports are inconsistent.
Die Hard | Stunts
, the comedy drama film held an 89% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 38 reviews. The critics consensus states, "The Stunt Man is a preposterously entertaining thriller with a clever narrative and Oscar-worthy (nomination, at least!) Peter O'Toole performance." Roger Ebert wrote "there was a great deal in it that I admired... [but] there were times when I felt cheated". He gave the film two stars but noted that others had "highly recommended" it. In an October 17, 1980, review in "The New York Times", Janet Maslin noted "the film's cleverness is aggressive and cool," but concluded that although "the gamesmanship of "The Stunt Man" is fast and furious...
The Stunt Man | Reception
The cast had a falling out with director Cliff Owen who was replaced by Ronald Neame in July 1965. Neame recalled that co-stars James Garner and Tony Franciosa did not get on well and their fight in the film became a real brawl. Garner calls the film "disappointing" although he says he enjoyed playing backgammon with Melina Mercouri and her husband Jules Dassin; he admits to punching Tony Franciosa, claiming it was because he "kept abusing the stunt men" and would not pull his punches in fight scenes. It was the last film Sandra Dee made under contract to Universal.
A Man Could Get Killed | Production
Carrey stated to the stunt double that he intended to do it in one take. When he jumps off, he is seen taking out a cell phone for the scene.
Yes Man (film) | Production
Films such as "Hooper" and "The Stunt Man" and the 1980s television show "The Fall Guy" sought to raise the profile of the stunt performer and debunk the myth that film stars perform all their own stunts. Noted stunt coordinators Hal Needham, Craig R. Baxley, and Vic Armstrong went on to direct the action films "The Cannonball Run", "Action Jackson", and "Joshua Tree". Vic Armstrong became the first stuntman to win both an Academy Award (for developing a descender rig as a safe alternative to airbags) and a BAFTA award (for lifetime achievement in film). But the status of stuntmen in Hollywood is still low; despite the fact that few films of any genre or type could be made without them, stunt performers are still perceived as working mainly in action films.
Stunt | Recognition of stunt performers
The man told Danko she would make "a good college type" for their next film and asked for her phone number. A few weeks later, Danko received a call to report for work on a film playing a member of a girls' basketball team. Someone on that film suggested she apply for more work at Hal Roach Studios, and her career as a stunt double began. Among the actresses she doubled for were Jean Arthur, Binnie Barnes, Joan Crawford, Irene Dunne, Madge Evans, Jean Harlow, Patsy Kelly, Elissa Landi, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Marie Prevost, Thelma Todd, Marie Windsor, and Blanche Yurka.
Betty Danko | Career
The athletic Douglas Fairbanks's one-handed handspring to grab a sword during a fight scene in this film is considered as one of the great stunts of the early cinema period. Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance enthuses, ""The Three Musketeers" was the first of the grand Fairbanks costume films, filled with exemplary production values and ornamentation. Indeed, one ornament extended beyond the film: Fairbanks wore d'Artagnan's moustache—cultivated for "The Three Musketeers"—to the end of his life. With "The Three Musketeers", he at last found his metier and crystallized his celebrity and his cinema."
The Three Musketeers (1921 film) | Production
At 220 feet, the stunt from Atlanta's Hyatt Regency Hotel (doubling for the Westin Peachtree Plaza) in the 1981 Burt Reynolds film "Sharky's Machine" still holds up as the highest free-fall stunt ever performed from a building for a commercially released film. However, despite it being a record-setting fall, only the beginning of the stunt as he goes through the window is used in the film. A dummy was used for the outside wide shot. However, Robinson performed a similar falling stunt for his largest role as an actor in the 1985 Burt Reynolds film "Stick", but this time all but the end of the stunt is fully visible as he is seen from above falling from a tall building firing a pistol at the same time.
Dar Robinson | Career
The British show "Top Gear" attempted to repeat the stunt in June 2008, but failed. The scene where Scaramanga's car flies was done at Bovington Camp, with a model inspired by an actual car plane prototype. Bond's duel with Scaramanga, which Mankewicz said was inspired by the climactic faceoff in "Shane", had its length shortened as the producers felt it was causing pacing problems. The trailers featured some of the cut scenes.
Filming of James Bond in the 1970s | "The Man with the Golden Gun"
The two formed an act in which Sundby would balance on top of Long, who played the strongman role. The duo traveled around the country appearing at clubs, as well as performances at Radio City Music Hall and in "Star and Garter", a revue that appeared on Broadway in 1942 with Gypsy Rose Lee as star. In 1945, Sundby's sister Dolores was added to the act, which was named the Wayne-Marlin Trio after the middle names of the two men. A 1949 stunt in which Sundby walked down the Washington Monument's 898 steps on his hands was included as an item illustrated in the pages of "Ripley's Believe It or Not!".
Glenn Sundby | Biography
Bruce Barbour as Leslie Nielsen's stunt double and Leslie Hoffman as Jeannette Charles' (Queen Elizabeth) stunt double made their famous slide down the banquet table. In the original film, veteran sports broadcasters Mel Allen, Curt Gowdy, Dick Enberg, Dick Vitale, Tim McCarver, and Jim Palmer are among those in a crowded booth. The baseball game features former Major League players like Jay Johnstone and, as an unexpected assassin, Reggie Jackson, as well as umpire Joe West. In the second film, Zsa Zsa Gabor has a cameo as herself, slapping the police car siren featured in the intro, a reference to her 1989 arrest.
The Naked Gun | Other notable appearances
The action scenes were choreographed by two men from Jackie Chan's stunt team, Chan Man Ching (Rumble in the Bronx, Rush Hour), and Sam Wong (Thunderbolt, Supercop). Chan, who befriended Kane due to Kane's friendship with Jackie's godson Sammy Hung (the son of film legend Sammo Hung), loaned Chan and Wong out for the film along with fellow stunt team member Antonio Carpio, who served as assistant action director. A translator was assigned to both men. Kane Kosugi performed all of his own stunts.
Muscle Heat | Stunts
He married four times. His first marriage being to actress Dilys Laye. He had one son, Gary, and one daughter, Stephanie, with his second wife Jackie, who was a dancer.
Frank Maher (stuntman) | Family
Stuntwork for the film was performed by Joe Yrigoyen (Gene's double), Jack Kirk (Smiley's double), Nellie Walker, Henry Morris, Jack Long, Tom Steele, Bill Yrigoyen, Wally West, Art Dillard, Jay Wilsey, Carey Loftin, Charles Thomas, Duke York, George Allen, Eddie Parker, and Bert LeBaron.
In Old Monterey | Stuntwork
Believing that Carter had lost his nerve, the film crew secretly arranged for another stunt driver, American Kenny Powers, to perform the jump while Carter was in his hotel room in Ottawa, Ontario. The Powers jump was a failure, with the car travelling only 506 feet in the air and breaking apart in flight before crash-landing in the water. Powers broke eight vertebrae, three ribs and fractured a wrist. Interviewed after the jump, Carter said that Powers was unprepared to do the jump and could have been killed.
Ken Carter (stuntman) | St. Lawrence River jump
Many of the film's stuntmen were sent to the hospital after being gored by bulls. Director Dick Thorpe hadn't wanted the bulls killed (as they usually were at the end of a bullfight) because he believed them to be too expensive to replace.
Esther Williams | 1940s
As a stuntman on "The Avengers", he played opposite both Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg. After working on "Man in a Suitcase", he became stunt coordinator on "Department S" and "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)". Following his work on "Danger Man", he again doubled for Patrick McGoohan in 1966–67 in the TV series "The Prisoner". He had a particularly large role in the episode "The Schizoid Man", which required a doppelganger of McGoohan's Number Six character to have a lot of screen time alongside the "real" Number Six. He also appeared as “Third Gunman” in "The Prisoner" western/cowboy style episode "Living in Harmony".
Frank Maher (stuntman) | TV stuntman
Albert John Bakunas, Jr, a.k.a. A.J. Bakunas (October 23, 1950 – September 22, 1978) was a stunt performer who died doubling for George Kennedy in a fall from the Kincaid Towers in Lexington, Kentucky for the film "Steel" (1979). Born in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Bakunas quit his job as a gym teacher at Tenafly (N.J.) High School in 1974 and set out to break into the film industry. He did his first stuntwork for the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon." Bakunas became known for expertly performing falls from great heights. Bakunas had set a world record for a 70,1 m (230 ft) fall from a helicopter for the film "Hooper" (1978), which was broken by Dar Robinson's 87,2 m (286 ft) fall for a non-movie related publicity stunt.
A. J. Bakunas | Introduction
In 1981, Truffaut was asked "Who is your favorite American director?" He answered, "I don’t know his name, but I saw his film last night and it was called "The Stunt Man"." The film, which took Rush nine years to put together, was a slapstick comedy, a thriller, a romance, an action-adventure, and a commentary on America's dismissal of veterans, as well as a deconstruction of Hollywood cinema. The film also features Rush's typical protagonist, an emotionally traumatized male who has escaped the traditional frameworks of society only to find his new world (biker gangs in "Hells Angels on Wheels", hippies in "Psych-Out") corrupted by the same influences.
Richard Rush (director) | "The Stunt Man"
Graf's stunt coordination received much attention in Walter Hill's 1990 film "Another 48 Hrs.", after he performed a "cannon-roll" using a school bus at speed, lifting the bus in the air with dynamite, and rolling it down the highway for .
Allan Graf | Film career
Spielberg liked the effect so much he had its ramp extended to give it more screen time. A steel rod in the wall, concealed by rubber rock outcroppings, controlled the boulder. Ford performed the stunt, completing it ten times for the different camera angles. Spielberg said he was an idiot for letting Ford do it, but that it would not have looked as good with a stuntman concealing their face. The tarantulas on Molina's body would not move because they were male and non-aggressive. A female spider was put on his chest to encourage movement. For the last part of the scene where Jones flees by plane, the first take ended in near-disaster when the plane crashed from a height of because Ford's dangling leg was blocking the aircraft's navigating flap.
Raiders of the Lost Ark | Stunts
The early 1960s produced a flourish of war films that were perfect for young, up and coming stuntmen. Budd spent a year living with the late Peter Breck, who starred in The Big Valley and his wife Diane in the San Fernando Valley and would get together on weekends with friends Robert Fuller, James Stacy, Chuck Courtney, actor/stuntmen Jerry Summers and Ronnie Rondell riding dirt bikes and partying at Bob Fuller's house. It was Jerry Summers that convinced Budd to try his hand at stunt work. Budd stunt doubled Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Warren Beatty and Chris George. He worked in "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Beau Geste, First to Fight, Tobruk, Ice Station Zebra" and "There Was a Crooked Man" and was part of the original Rat Patrol Stunt Team.
Budd Albright | Stunt man
Thirdly, the former wild west was now not only tamed, but also starting to be fenced in, greatly reducing the need for and pay of the former cowboys. The first picture which used a dedicated stunt performer is highly debated, but occurred somewhere between 1903 and 1910. The first possible appearance of a stunt-double was Frank Hanaway in "The Great Train Robbery", shot in 1903 in Milltown, New Jersey. The first auditable paid stunt was in the 1908 film "The Count of Monte Cristo", with $5 paid by the director to the acrobat who had to jump upside down from a cliff into the sea.
Stunt performer | Early cinema
Note: All the films he did as a Stuntman he was uncredited for it.
Roy Jenson | Filmography/Television (Stuntman)
In 2012, founding members were honored with the NAACP President's Award. In 2014, members of the organisation became angry when Warner Bros studio cast a white stuntwoman for its Fox show "Gotham", to be a double for a black guest actress. The stunt woman had already been made up and had her hair and skin done to pass as the black actress. After Warner Bros were approached by a reporter from "Deadline Hollywood", they didn't progress any further with using the white stunt woman. Along with Lance Burton and Matthew Gray Gubler who are from other industries, Willie Harris honored at the College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame for his work in the film industry.
Black Stuntmen's Association | Later years
During the end of his college career, he appeared in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) as a Winkie guard and as Jack Haley's Tin Man stunt double. At the time of his death, Schindler was one of the last surviving living people working on the film classic. He also appeared in "Sailor's Lady" (1940).
Ambrose Schindler | Film and stunt work
She was unable to perform one day and the woman who was her stand-in ended up being paralyzed during a scene. St. Edmund's stunt work eventually made her the highest paid stuntwoman in Hollywood history.
Lada St. Edmund | Stuntwork
Powers worked for and with Carter for many years, and also claimed to have performed stunts for Hollywood, including in the 1970s films "Smokey and the Bandit", "Vanishing Point", and "Hooper".. However, he is not listed in any movie credits. Kenny did stunt work for the Ken Carter team during the time that "Smokey and the Bandit" was filmed as the team prepared for the 1979 Super Jump. According to Butch Carter, Ken Carter's brother who also did stunt work for the team, the team was considered for the stunt work in "Smokey and the Bandit", but another team was selected.
Kenny Powers (stuntman) | Other work
The Academy Film Archive preserved "The Man with the Golden Arm" in 2005.
The Man with the Golden Arm | Preservation
In April 1915 while on the Kalem payroll doubling for Helen Holmes in The Hazards of Helen adventure film series, Helen performed what is thought to be her most dangerous stunt: a leap from the roof of a station onto the top of a moving train in the "A Girl's Grit" episode. The distance between station roof and train top was accurately measured, and she practiced the jump with the train standing still. The train had to be moving on camera for about a quarter mile and its accelerating velocity was timed to the second. She leapt without hesitation and landed correctly, but the train's motion made her roll toward the end of the car.
Helen Gibson | Stunt doubling
When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role, but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except "From Russia with Love", which he joined later in the production, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "The Man with the Golden Gun". He appeared in the gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: "Dr. No", "From Russia with Love", and "Goldfinger". Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene, while not starring in the main role as James Bond.
Bob Simmons (stunt man) | Biography
Slapstick stunts on the ground and in the air were a major element and often the directors requested repeated stunts; the stuntmen were more than accommodating; it meant more pay.
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines | Aircraft
Yuen was a stuntwoman and a night club performer from the late 1960s to early 1970s. In 1974, Yuen had a small role in the international production, "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974), portraying as Hip's niece Nara rescuing Roger Moore as James Bond. In 1979, Yuen was able to demonstrate her acrobatic and kicking abilities in Dragon's Claw. In 1970s, there were limited opportunities for stuntwomen.
Yuen Qiu | Career
Harlow was well on her way to being the biggest star in Hollywood, and her next picture, "Bombshell" (1933), would not even need a male star to carry the film.
Hold Your Man | Response
When two studio executives were shown shots of the computer generated character, they believed it was actually Maguire performing stunts. In addition, Dykstra's crew had to composite areas of New York City and replaced every car in shots with digital models. Raimi did not want it to feel entirely like animation, so none of the shots were 100% computer-generated.
Spider-Man (2002 film) | Visual effects
We're not doing the scene." Less than an hour after the exchange, the studio found three stunt doubles made up to look like the Stooges. McCarey yelled "Action" and chaos ensued. Two of the three were seriously injured with broken limbs, as were all four photographers. The only stunt double not hurt was the one doubling for Curly Howard because of the padding that he wore to resemble the rotund Stooge. Moe Howard later said in his autobiography that "McCarey was speechless and sat in his director's chair with his head in his hands."
Three Little Pigskins | "...a Humdinger of Bangs and Bruises"
However, due to its limited release, it never earned much attention from audiences at large. As O'Toole remarked in a DVD audio commentary, "The film wasn't released. It escaped."
The Stunt Man | Introduction
While filming in New York City, they swung a man through traffic down the street. Then, while the crew built a rig hundreds of feet long over Riverside Drive in Harlem, Andy built a car rig with a series of wires to help with effects which Webb said required an "incredible wealth of acrobatics". These rigs were over 200–300 feet long and demanded months of rehearsals and design. According to Andy, operating the rigs "was a combination of a lot of human skills and mechanical engineering." The purpose of the rigs was to depict Spider-Man's swing in a way that wasn't computer-generated.
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film) | Stunts
His later movie stunt roles included work on "The Italian Job" in 1969.
Frank Maher (stuntman) | Early career
She returned to Hollywood in 1927 and began doubling for stars such as Louise Fazenda, Irene Rich, Edna May Oliver, Marie Dressler, Marjorie Main, May Robson, Esther Dale, and Ethel Barrymore. She worked constantly stunt doubling and in uncredited or bit parts. As she had in her heyday, Helen became a featured guest at benefit rodeos and events such as the Annual Santa Barbara Horse Show. In 1935, Helen married Clifton Johnson, a studio electrician who had been a chief gunner in the Navy. In 1940, he asked for active duty, and while he was serving in World War II, she carried on working as an extra and became treasurer of the stunt girl's fraternal organization.
Helen Gibson | Return to Hollywood
She was meant to be in "The Ladies' Man" with Jerry Lewis but was fired at the last minute. During the summer of 1961, Dors shot "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", based on Robert Bloch's story, for "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". The episode was so gruesome that it was suppressed for decades.
Diana Dors | Back in Hollywood
Garfield was reported to be involved with some of the stunts. Arad explained that "Andrew is not only a brilliant actor but he is a sportsman. This gave us the opportunity to try things with him that were it not so it would have been almost impossible."
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film) | Stunts
His stunt work includes, "The Fifth Floor" "Grease", "The Guardian" As stunt coordinator he worked on Lime Street in 1986, "Designing Women" in 1990, "The Butcher's Wife" in 1991 and the television series "Castle" that starred Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle, a mystery-thriller writer who assists the NYPD in investigating murders. 1986. the television serves "Airwolf" gained a Stuntman Association of Motion Picture Award for his work on the "Annie Oakley". The award was for "Most spectacular sequence. For his work as stunt coordinator for the series "24", the show received a Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Stunt Coordination.
Gregory J. Barnett | Stuntman
A close friend of Dale Evans, she served as Evans' stunt double through most of her career. She was also a stunt double for Elizabeth Taylor in "National Velvet". Other actresses for whom she stunt doubled on film or television include: Marion Davies, Barbara Stanwyck, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Ann Sheridan, Ava Gardner, Bette Davis, Jane Wyman, Doris Day, Susan Hayward, and Linda Evans. Her first film stunt work came in 1935 in Will Rogers' last film, "In Old Kentucky". She had performed during the opening ceremony at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She also rode as a jockey, becoming the third woman ever to receive a trainer's license for thoroughbred horses.
Alice Van-Springsteen | Career
The stunt car is significantly modified with a redesigned chassis to place the steering wheel in the center and a lower stance, as well as larger wheel wells compared to the stock Hornet used in all the other movie shots. The 360-degree mid-air twisting corkscrew was captured in just one filming sequence. Seven tests were performed in advance before the one jump performed by an uncredited British stuntman "Bumps" Williard for the film with six (or eight, depending on the source) cameras simultaneously rolling. Two frogmen were positioned in the water, as well as an emergency vehicle and a crane were ready, but not needed.
AMC Hornet | James Bond movie
Although the stories that stuntmen died while filming "Ben Hur" and "Where Eagles Dare" are apocryphal myths, life-threatening injuries and deaths are not uncommon. Contracts often stipulate that the footage may be used if the performer is injured or dies during filming, and some filmmakers including Jackie Chan consider it disrespectful not to do so. During the filming of "How the West Was Won" (1962), a number of stunt performers and actors were injured, the most notable of which was Robert Drew "Bob" Morgan. While filming a gunfight on a moving railroad flatcar loaded with logs, one of the chains that held the logs snapped, and Morgan was crushed by the falling timber.
Stunt performer | Deaths
Lloyd performed the lesser stunts himself, despite having injured himself in August 1919 while doing publicity pictures for the Roach studio. An accident with a bomb mistaken as a prop resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on future films with the use of a special prosthetic glove, and was almost undetectable on the screen).
Harold Lloyd | Introduction
Lloyd hanging from a giant clock on the corner of a building became an iconic image for him, but it was achieved with a certain amount of film trickery. Lloyd performed most of his own stuntwork, but a circus performer was used when The Boy hangs by a rope, and a stunt double – sometimes Bill Strother, who played "Limpy" Bill and was a steeplejack who inspired the sequence when Lloyd saw him climbing – was used in long shots. A number of different buildings from 1st Street to 9th Street in downtown Los Angeles, all of different heights, were used, with sets built on their roofs to match the facade of the main building, the International Bank Building at Temple and Spring Streets.
Safety Last! | Production
Needham's first break was as the stunt double for actor Richard Boone on the popular TV western "Have Gun, Will Travel". Needham trained under John Wayne's stunt double Chuck Roberson and quickly became one of the top stuntmen of the 1960s on such films as "How the West Was Won", "The Bridge at Remagen", "McLintock!", "The War Lord", and "Little Big Man". He doubled regularly for Clint Walker and Burt Reynolds. Needham moved into stunt coordinating and directing second unit action, while designing and introducing air bags and other innovative equipment to the industry. Needham at one time lived in Reynolds' guesthouse for the better part of 12 years.
Hal Needham | Career
Three Golden Gun props were made; a solid piece, one that could be fired with a cap and one that could be assembled and disassembled, although Christopher Lee said that the process "was extremely difficult." The gun was "one of the more memorable props in the Bond series" and consisted of an interlocking fountain pen (the barrel), cigarette lighter (the bullet chamber), cigarette case (the handle) and cufflink (the trigger) with the bullet secured in Scaramanga's belt buckle. In the film, the gun was designed to accept a single 4.2-millimetre, 23-carat gold bullet produced by Lazar, a gunsmith in Macau who specialized in custom weapons and ammunition.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) | Golden Gun prop
While his older brother Chuck Norris was on his rise to stardom, Aaron Norris began his career as an uncredited stunt man in movies such as "Black Belt Jones" (1974), "Speedtrap" (1977), and "Breaker! Breaker!" (1977) (his brother Chuck's starring debut). The following year he was hired again as martial arts choreographer (credited) and a stunt double (uncredited) for his brother second film "Good Guys Wear Black" (1978) directed by Ted Post. He is noted to have performed the flying sidekick through the windshield of a speeding car, the stunt that sold the movie. He also played a small role in this movie.
Aaron Norris | 1970s Early Career
Robert P. "Bob" Orrison (July 28, 1928 – October 11, 2014) was an American film and television stunt performer. He was the stunt double for actor Audie Murphy for many films and did stunt work in John Wayne movies such as "The Undefeated" and "Chisum". He also performed stunts in such films as "The Wild Bunch", "Smokey and the Bandit", "Rambo III", "Days of Thunder", "Die Hard 2", and "Speed". For television, he worked on the original "" series doubling for Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley on several occasions. He was the primary stunt driver of the General Lee car on "The Dukes of Hazzard", and doubled for George Peppard in stunts performed for "The A-Team".
Bob Orrison | Introduction
He was sparring at the London's Polytechnic Boxing Club and soon became a founding partner in a stunt team by Captain Jock Easton. Powell performed stuntwork in many films, including The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Longest Day (1962), Cleopatra (1963) and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). He also participated in several James Bond films. He is listed as having performed one of the 10 best stunts ever pulled by The Guardian.
Joe Powell (stuntman) | Early Life & Career
After his discharge from the Marine Corps, Mahoney moved to Los Angeles, and for a time was a horse breeder. However, he soon became a movie stuntman, doubling for Gregory Peck, Errol Flynn, and John Wayne. Director Vincent Sherman recalled staging the climactic fight scene in his 1948 film "Adventures of Don Juan" and could find only one stuntman who was willing to leap from a high staircase in the scene. That man was Mahoney, who demanded and received $1,000 for the dangerous stunt. Most of Mahoney's films of the late 1940s and early 1950s were produced by Columbia Pictures.
Jock Mahoney | Career
On June 25, 1980 24-year-old German American stuntwoman Heidi von Beltz (1955–2015), a former championship skier and aspiring actor, was critically injured in a car crash during production of the film. The original stunt person had left the production to attend an emergency family illness, and the stunt coordinator Bobby Bass called his then-fiancée von Beltz to the set for a stunt that he said was to be "a piece of cake". The car was to be driven by Jimmy Nickerson, weaving between oncoming vehicles while von Beltz rode in the passenger seat operating a smoke machine to give the impression the car was on fire.
The Cannonball Run | Accident
This was all in the hopes of portraying an erudite and cultured Ip Man, as well as bringing out the special traits of Wing Chun. Yen even went as far as to stay in character after filming, wearing his costume and changing his voice and movement patterns. While rehearsing a fight scene, Yen was reportedly injured when an axe wielder accidentally slashed the side of his left eye. Yen also had a masseur on set as he could not raise his right shoulder due to an injury.
Ip Man (film) | Stunts and choreography
According to the book "The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury", Ken Maynard was doubled by Cliff Lyons in some scenes but performed many of his own stunts, especially riding, in others. However, the later book "In the Nick of Time" states that Ken Maynard was doubled by his brother Kermit Maynard. The physical similarities between the two makes it difficult to spot the difference on screen between actor and stuntman. Maynard's horse, Tarzan, had three doubles, one of which was blind. Future serial director William Witney, working as an assistant director, performed one stunt during this serial when the stuntman failed to show up to the location shoot.
Mystery Mountain (serial) | Stuntwork
Chitwood was frequently hired by Hollywood film studios to either do stunt driving for films or to act as auto-stunt coordinator. Chitwood was the stunt double for Clark Gable on the Barbara Stanwyck 1950 film about auto racing, "To Please a Lady". In 1973, Joie Chitwood Jr. is credited as a Stunt Coordinator for the hugely successful James Bond film "Live and Let Die", where he was also the stunt driver and acted in a minor part.
Joie Chitwood | Stuntman
Steedman went on to do stunts in the James Bond films "GoldenEye" and "Tomorrow Never Dies", as well as "", "Rob Roy", "Snatch", "Children of Men" and ""
Trevor Steedman | Introduction
The film is frequently confused with Michael Curtiz's "Santa Fe Trail", released the previous year, in which Flynn portrayed Jeb Stuart and Ronald Reagan played Custer, also featuring Olivia de Havilland as Flynn's leading lady. Three men were killed during the filming. One fell from a horse and broke his neck. Another stuntman had a heart attack. The third, actor Jack Budlong, insisted on using a real saber to lead a cavalry charge under artillery fire. When an explosive charge sent him flying off his horse, he landed on his sword, impaling himself. In September 1941, during filming, Flynn collapsed from exhaustion.
They Died with Their Boots On | Filming
The Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures (SAMP) is an honorary society of motion picture stunt coordinators, stuntmen, and second unit directors. It was founded in 1961 by Loren Janes, who worked as a stunt double for Steve McQueen, and Richard Geary, who doubled for Robert Vaughn. Membership is by “invitation only” and applicants must be a member of the Screen Actors Guild. It is an exclusively male group, which has named a number of honorary stuntwomen, although they are not listed as full members on the site. Previous 'honorary' members include Lucille Ball, Barbara Stanwick, Kathleen Nolan, Marie Windsor, Julie Andrews and Kaye Wade.
Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures | Introduction
She also doubled for Jane Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Veronica Lake, Joan Fontaine, Frances Dee, and Sonja Henie. She appeared in more than 100 films. In 1947, Jerry Fairbanks produced "The Stunt Girl", a short documentary film highlighting her career to date. Shanley performed a wide range of stunts. In the escape from Atlanta scene in "Gone with the Wind", she rode in a horse-drawn carriage through the burning warehouses of the railroad depot. In the graduation party scene in "It's a Wonderful Life", she fell into a swimming pool that lay underneath the retractable floor of a high school gymnasium.
Lila Shanley | Film career
On stage the Diddy Men are normally played by children or adults with dwarfism. On TV and in some stage performances, Dodd used a ventriloquist's puppet of the Dicky Mint character. These days the Diddy Men are rarely seen outside pantomime season. Carol Vorderman, of "Countdown" fame, played a Diddy Man as a child.
Diddy Men | Actors
Gary McLarty (January 16, 1941 – October 11, 2014) was an American stunt performer and stunt coordinator for film and television. His abilities earned him the nickname "Whiz Kid" in Hollywood. McLarty performed stunts in over 150 films between 1966 and 2004, among them "The Wild Bunch", "Little Big Man", "The Longest Yard", "Blade Runner", "The Terminator", "Jurassic Park", "Heat", and "Collateral". He also performed in numerous John Wayne films, including "The War Wagon", "The Undefeated", "Chisum", "McQ", and "Rooster Cogburn". In addition, he was the stunt coordinator on such films as "Animal House", "The Blues Brothers", "Beverly Hills Cop", "Beverly Hills Cop II" and "Days of Thunder".
Gary McLarty | Introduction
Wilke started as a stuntman in the 1930s and his first appearance on screen was in "San Francisco" (1936). He soon began to acquire regular character parts, mainly as a heavy, and made his mark when, along with Lee Van Cleef and Sheb Wooley, he played one of the "three men waiting at the station" in "High Noon" (1952).
Robert J. Wilke | Career
While Hickman had many small acting (mainly driving) parts throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he worked primarily as a stuntman. He sustained a couple of significant injuries during this time, including breaking several ribs in a bad trick-fall in the film "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini" (1965). However, it was the iconic car chase alongside Steve McQueen in the classic 1968 film "Bullitt" for which he is usually remembered. Hickman was to do all his own driving; portraying one of two hit men, he drove an all black 1968 Dodge Charger 440 Magnum R/T through the streets of San Francisco, using the hills as jumps.
Bill Hickman | Stuntman work in "Bullitt"
1. Peter O'Toole – "The Stunt Man" 2. Robert De Niro – "Raging Bull" 3. Robert Duvall – "The Great Santini"
1980 National Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Actor
Notwithstanding, this scene appeared fully in the film, in its entirety. Morgan's wife, actress Yvonne De Carlo, put her own career on hold, in order to nurse him back to health over five years; however, the couple later divorced in 1968. A University of Illinois study from the 1980s lists accidents and fatalities from films during that era, concluding that it seemed probable that the tendency of film audiences to be interested by ever bigger, badder and more dangerous film stunts had not decreased the fatality rate.
Stunt performer | Deaths
He has worked as a stuntman since the 1960s in motion pictures and television series. He has been stunt doubling and stunt coordinating for many of Hollywood actors in films such as "When Time Ran Out..." and "Smokey and the Bandit". He also appeared in the 1980 TV movie "Stunts Unlimited" about stunt performers.
Stan Barrett | Stuntman career
Laughton had made a name for himself as a mime on vaudeville, and so had never uttered a word on stage. During the filming of "Daring Young Man" although he appeared in 85 scenes, he once again never had a word to utter in public. The production ran into difficulty using local bowling alleys to film in, as they were kept busy by off-duty defense workers. To alleviate the problem, the studio built its own bowling alley for the production. By the end of August it was announced that the cast included Joe E. Brown, Marguerite Chapman, Roger Clark, William Wright, Don Douglas, Claire Dodd, Lloyd Bridges, William Forrest, Eddie Laughton, Frank Sully, Ben Carter, and Robert Middlemass.
Daring Young Man | Production
Chan's stunt team worked in collaboration with Sammo Hung's team on films including Thunderbolt and Around the World in 80 Days. A small number of films that Chan produced but did not appear in, or was not involved in at all, have utilised his stunt team. These include "The Gold Hunters" (1981), "Rouge" (1988), "The Inspector Wears Skirts 2" (1989), "Stage Door Johnny" (1990) and "Angry Ranger" (1991).
Jackie Chan Stunt Team | History
As she struggled to find roles, she met Hal Needham through Dinah Shore. After her meeting with Needham, and with the encouragement of Burt Reynolds, she studied to be a stunt performer. St. Edmund went on to do stuntwork in "Smokey and the Bandit". In 1975, St. Edmund drove a 1972 Mercury to test airbags for Eaton Corporation. She drove the car into a wall going . She was paid $25,000 by Allstate and broke her ankles. She performed a motorcycle jump over cars on a television pilot for Evel Knievel, and suffered a compression fracture. She was scheduled to do stuntwork in "The Cannonball Run".
Lada St. Edmund | Stuntwork
Brown, best known for his work in "Cleopatra" (for which he won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction), "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "The Night of the Hunter". Gary Cooper did his own horse-riding scenes despite physical pain that he suffered from a car accident years earlier. Chuck Roberson, Jack Williams and Jack N. Young were the stunt performers for the film.
Man of the West | Filming
The Stuntmen is a one-hour documentary for Australian TV written and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It won Best Documentary at the 1973 Australian Film Awards. It was through this film that Trenchard-Smith met Grant Page, who he put under a five-year contract and featured in a number of films. The film also acted as a "calling card" which enabled the director to get finance for "The Man from Hong Kong" (1975).
The Stuntmen | Introduction
The stuntmen included Carey Loftin, Paul Stader, Troy Melton, Jerry Summers, Ronnie Ron-dell, Bob Harris, Louis Elias, David Sharpe, Harvey Parry, and Bill Hickman. When designing Goldfoot's lair, Daniel Haller re-used some of his designs from 1961's "The Pit and the Pendulum". Stock footage of battleships from another AIP release, "Godzilla vs. The Thing" appears during the climax.
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine | Shooting
He was born in London on 18 June 1929. He was a gold medal-winning boxer at school. Before his career as a stuntman/actor he served in World War II in the Parachute Regiment of the British Army. He lied about his age to join the regiment which meant that he was only 15 when he took part in the battle of Arnhem (part of Operation Market Garden). His first stunt role was as a Roman Centurion in the film "Caesar And Cleopatra" (1945) starring Stewart Granger. His other movie stunt roles included work on "The Crimson Pirate" (1952) doubling for Burt Lancaster and as a riding double in "The Devil’s Disciple" (1959).
Frank Maher (stuntman) | Early career
Mickey Gilbert is an American rodeo performer and film stunt man. Gilbert has been Robert Redford's stuntman on Redford films beginning with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), through "The Old Man & the Gun" (1988). In the trailer for "The Old Man & the Gun," Redford says that he and Gilbert "were in the same class in the same high school in the San Fernando Valley, and then many, many years later, he showed up in my life again as the stunt double in "Butch Cassidy," so from that point on he's been in all my films since." Some of Gilbert's best known stunt roles are the leap off a cliff into water as the Robert Redford character in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid;" jumping from a moving train to a signal post as the Gene Wilder character in "Silver Streak"; rolling down a hill together with the horse he was mounted on The Return of a Man Called Horse; and leaping on horseback off a cliff into water in the Gene Wilder role in "The Frisco Kid".
Mickey Gilbert | Introduction
Filming took place in Atlanta. "I liked the idea of working in Atlanta, where I've spent a lot of time," said Reynolds. "I made "Deliverance", "Smokey", "The Longest Yard" and "Gator", my first film as a director, all in Georgia." At 220 feet, the stunt from Atlanta's Hyatt Regency Hotel (doubling for the Westin Peachtree Plaza) still stands as the highest free-fall stunt ever performed from a building for a commercially released film. The stuntman was Dar Robinson. Despite it being a record-setting fall, only the beginning of the stunt, as he goes through the window, was used in the film.
Sharky's Machine | Shooting
He was suspended on a raised platform and then dropped onto a blue screen airbag. This allowed the background behind him to be composited on an optical printer with footage from Fox Plaza, and footage of cannon-shot confetti that looked like falling bearer-bonds. Rickman had to fall backward onto the bag, something even stuntmen avoid to control their fall. Even so, McTiernan convinced Rickman by demonstrating the stunt himself and falling onto a pile of cardboard boxes. Rickman was told he would be dropped on a count of three. He was let go early to elicit a genuine look of surprise.
Die Hard | Stunts