Smokey and the Bandit
1977
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Hal Brett Needham (March 6, 1931 – October 25, 2013) was an American stuntman, film director, actor, writer, and NASCAR team owner. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with actor Burt Reynolds, usually in films involving fast cars, such as Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Hooper (1978), The Cannonball Run (1981) and Stroker Ace (1983).. In his later years, Needham moved out of ...
Hal Needham. Stunts: The Cannonball Run. As the highest paid stuntman in the world, Hal Needham broke 56 bones, his back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth. His career has included work on 4500 television episodes and 310 feature films as a stuntman, stunt coordinator, 2nd unit director and ultimately, director. He wrote and directed some of the most financially successful ...
Hal Needham. Stunts: The Cannonball Run. As the highest paid stuntman in the world, Hal Needham broke 56 bones, his back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth. His career has included work on 4500 television episodes and 310 feature films as a stuntman, stunt coordinator, 2nd unit director and ultimately, director. He wrote and directed some of the most financially successful ...
Jul 25, 2019 · Hal Needham's life included cross-country street races, fights with John Wayne, and jumping off a 30-foot ledge onto a moving stagecoach. He was the inspiration for Brad Pitt's character in ...
Nov 1, 2013 · Hal Needham spent most of the 1950s and '60s falling off horses, wrecking stagecoach wagons and falling from really, really high places. A Hollywood stuntman for more than four decades, he worked ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Hal Needham was born to be a stuntman. He was taking “crazy” risks as a teenager, long before he was leaping from planes, jumping from high-rise buildings and crashing burning cars in a screen ...
Oct 26, 2013 · For relaxation, Needham enjoyed race cars. He owned the Budweiser Rocket Car, which Air Force radar clocked at more than 739 mph. Needham claimed it was the first land vehicle to break the sound ...
Oct 26, 2013 · Hal Needham, a veteran Hollywood stuntman who later embarked on a less risky career as a director of action movies including “Smokey and the Bandit” and “The Cannonball Run,” both of which ...
Oct 26, 2013 · Hal Needham always had the top two or three buttons of his shirt undone, wore fancy tight jeans, preferred to have a cowboy hat on his head, hid his eyes behind tinted lenses, and at one time ...
Oct 25, 2013 · Hal Needham, a highly regarded Hollywood stuntman and director of frothy, adrenaline-pumped films like "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Cannonball Run," has died.
