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Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s: A Biographical Dictionary

Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s: A Biographical Dictionary Paperback / softback - 2014 - 2nd Edition

by Gene Freese

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  • Title Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s: A Biographical Dictionary
  • Author Gene Freese
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Condition New
  • Pages 356
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland and Company, Inc.
  • Date 2014-04-10
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780786476435
  • ISBN 9780786476435 / 0786476435
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.9 in (25.15 x 17.53 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Stunt performers - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014007740
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

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From the publisher

This biographical dictionary shines the spotlight on several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created some of the cinema's greatest action scenes without credit or recognition. The time period covered encompasses the silent comedy days of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, the early westerns of Tom Mix and John Wayne, the swashbucklers of Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, and Burt Lancaster, the costume epics of Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas, and the action films of Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, and Charles Bronson.

Without stuntmen and women working behind the scenes the films of these action superstars would not have been as successful. Now fantastic athletes and leading stunt creators such as Yakima Canutt, Richard Talmadge, Harvey Parry, Allen Pomeroy, Dave Sharpe, Jock Mahoney, Chuck Roberson, Polly Burson, Bob Morgan, Loren Janes, Dean Smith, Hal Needham, Martha Crawford, Ronnie Rondell, Terry Leonard, and Bob Minor are given their proper due. Each entry covers the performer's athletic background, military service, actors doubled, noteworthy stunts, and a rundown of his or her best known screen credits.

About the author

Gene Scott Freese is a screenwriter living in Chandler, Arizona. He has written books on TV cowboy Jock Mahoney, character actor Richard Jaeckel, and Hollywood stunt performers from cinema's Golden Age.