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Frank Clarke (29 December 1898 – 12 June 1948) was a Hollywood stunt pilot, actor, [1] and military officer. His most prominent role was as Leutnant von Bruen (and double for von Richthofen in combat scenes) in the 1930 production Hell's Angels, but he flew for the camera and performed stunts in more than a dozen films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Frank Clarke (29 December 1898 – 12 June 1948) was a Hollywood stunt pilot, actor, and military officer. His most prominent role was as Lieutenant von Bruen (and double for von Richthofen in combat scenes) in the 1930 production Hell's Angels, but he flew for the camera and performed stunts in more than a dozen films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Frank Clarke. Stunts: Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery. Frank Clarke was born on 29 December 1898 in Paso Robles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (1935), The Flying Fool (1929) and Criminals of the Air (1937).
- Stunts, Actor, Additional Crew
- December 29, 1898
- Frank Clarke
- June 12, 1948
Oct 30, 2019 · Frank Clarke was another prominent stunt pilot. In 1921, he successfully flew a plane off a 10-story building despite having an extremely short runway. In 1929, Clarke became the chief stunt pilot for Howard Hughes’ film Hell’s Angels.
Oct 21, 2001 · Barnstorming pilots were the daredevil missionaries of aviation's pioneering era, and none of them did more for the cause than Los Angeles' Frank Clarke.
Frank Clarke was the next major Hollywood stunt pilot to gain prominence. In 1921, Clarke performed a particularly risky stunt for the film Stranger Than Fiction. The feat involved flying a Curtiss Canuck biplane off a 10-story building with only a 100-foot (30-meter) runway.
Jun 12, 2006 · One of the final dramatic scenes in the film was the diving, spinning crash of a Sikorsky S-29A bomber — repainted to represent a German Gotha. Both Dick Grace and Frank Clarke had refused to do the stunt for less than $10,000, but Al Wilson agreed to perform the dangerous dive.
