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Hollywood's unsung heroes, the men and women of the stunt profession who live a life of danger for the film & television business. Honorary icon film stars, headline this lineup of those that put the action and motion into the entertainment industry's movie magic. Sort by: View: 244 names. 1.
Wendy Leech. Probably the greatest stuntwoman ever, Wendy Leech has performed stunts in many of the most legendary movies ever made, including the first three Superman movies, the first three Indiana Jones films, and The Omen.
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- Jackass 3D
- RRR
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Batman Returns
- Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
- Deliverance
- Raiders of The Lost Ark
- The Matrix Reloaded
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Poo Cocktail Supremeis the title of this sketch from Johnny Knoxville’s degenerate pals. It features Steve-O strapped into a portable toilet. This is then catapulted into the air and bounces up and down on bungee cords, emptying the loo’s contents all over him. Ah, cinema!
SS Rajamouli’s Telugu-language epic won this year’s Hollywood Critics Association’s prize for best stunts. Any number of the film’s bonkers set pieces might have qualified for the award, not least a jaw-dropping forest scene in which NT Rama Rao Jr heaves at the ropes keeping a ravenous tiger in a net.
In Michael Curtiz’s Technicolor romp, Robin (Errol Flynn) escapes from the sheriff’s men in typically swashbuckling style. After riding to one of Nottingham’s city gates, he hacks through the rope holding up the portcullis. The portcullis descends, trapping his pursuers, and Robin is hoisted up the gatehouse wall.
Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber duelconcludes with Luke (Mark Hamill) being sucked backwards through a broken window by a vacuum. Or does it? In fact, Colin Skeaping, Hamill’s stunt double, somersaulted through the window, but it’s so cleverly framed and edited that you would never know.
Patricia Peters doubled for Michelle Pfeiffer in many of Catwoman’s rubber-suited acrobatic routines, but it was Pfeiffer herself who decapitated four mannequins with a swishing whip, and then used it as a skipping rope. In a behind-the-scenes clip, the crew bursts into cheers and applause.
Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) is limping towards the chocolate factory’s gates when he appears to collapse. But then Wilder turns the fall into a forward roll, and springs to his feet. “I knew from that time on, no one would know if I was lying or telling the truth,” saidWilder.
The shots of the actors canoeing along a wild river are hair-raising enough, but then Burt Reynolds chooses to fling himself down the rocky rapids, instead of letting a stuntman or a dummy take the fall – yikes! He cracked his coccyxin the process.
The fifth Indiana Jones film is almost upon us, and yet the franchise’s most memorable scene remains the one in the opening minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indy chased down a tunnel by a giant rolling boulder, leaping to safety through a curtain of spider webs
The so-called “scorpion kick” was invented for The Matrix Reloaded by Yuen Woo-ping and executed, after six months of training, by Carrie-Anne Moss. Basically, she leans forward and swings one leg over her own head. It’s probably the least practical way to kick someone, but definitely one of the most spectacular.
Blake Edwards’ Pink Panther comedies have a wealth of Bond-worthy stunts, the most delightful of which comes when Clouseau demonstrates why he was once known as “the Pavlova of the Parallels”, and a crafty cut allows Peter Sellers to be swapped for a stuntman.
The best movie stunts of all time. 1. The chariot race in ‘Ben-Hur’ (1959) – picked by Vic Armstrong. Not only do they not make them like stunt legend Vic Armstrong anymore, they rarely make...
Sep 4, 2018 · Culture. Movies. The 25 Best Movie Stunts of All Time. It's time for stunt doubles to receive their due. By Jordan Hoffman Published: Sep 04, 2018 1:07 PM EDT. Save Article. Use Arrow Keys to...
Apr 21, 2021 · Apr 21 2021 • 8:36 AM. After nearly a century of Oscars, the Academy still does not feature a category recognizing stunts. Stunts have been uplifting cinema since the beginning. Death-defying...
