A stunt performer, often referred to as a stuntman, or daredevil, is someone who performs dangerous stunts, often as a career.
A stuntman typically performs stunts intended for use in a motion pictures or dramatized television. Stunts are sometimes rigged so that, while they look dangerous, safety mechanisms are built into the performance, however, often stunts are as dangerous as they appear to be. Stunts often seen in films and television include car crashes, falls from great height, drags (for example, behind a horse) and explosions. Film and television stunt performers are often trained in martial arts and stage combat. There is an inherent risk in the performance of all stunt work in film, television and stage work; the most risk exists when performing stunts in front of a live audience. In filmed performances, visible safety mechanisms can be removed by editing. In live performances the audience can better see if the performer is genuinely doing what they claim to be doing.
Daredevils are distinct from stunt performers and stunt doubles; their performance is of the stunt itself, without the context of a film or television show. Daredevils often perform for an audience.Live stunt performers include escape artists, sword swallowers, glass walkers, fire eaters, trapeze artists, and many other sideshow and circus arts. They also include motorcycle display teams and the once popular Wall of Death.
Damien Gareth Walters (born 6 April 1982) is a British former gymnast from Derbyshire who specialises in tumbling.
Walters participated in four Trampoline World Championships. In 2003 he was one of four members of the British team winning the World Title in the team competition. In the years 2001 and 2007 he ranked 4th with the team. He also finished 5th in singles competition in 2003 and 2005. In addition he won the European Title with the British team in 2006, just after he was placed 2nd in team and 8th in the singles competition two years earlier.
Since 2007 Walters has not participated in further tournaments and has focused on his other projects, mainly his career as a stuntman. He also appeared, however, in a number of television commercials and has performed in acrobatic shows.
Walters has had the role of stunt double or stunt performer in the films: Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Ninja Assassin, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Eagle, I Am Number Four, Blitz, Colombiana, and Captain America: The First Avenger. In Kick-Ass, he was credited as both a stunt double and assistant fight coordinator. He will also appear in the films Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and 47 Ronin.
Lee Majors (born Harvey Lee Yeary on April 23, 1939) is an American television, film and voice actor, best known for his roles as Heath Barkley in the TV series The Big Valley (1965 - 1969), as Colonel Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978) and as Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy (1981–1986).
He is also known as Owen Marshall's law partner/friend, Jess Brandon, in the 1971–1974 series Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law. In the late 1980s and 1990s he reprised the role of Steve Austin in a number of TV movies, and appeared in a number of supporting, recurring and cameo roles in feature films and TV series, and lent his voice to a number of animated TV series and video games.
Majors was born in the Detroit suburb of Wyandotte, Michigan. Parents Carl & Alice Yeary were both killed in separate car accidents (prior to his birth and when he was one year old respectively) and at age two, Majors was adopted by an uncle and aunt, Harvey and Mildred Yeary, and moved with them, and their biological son, Bill, to Middlesboro, Kentucky.[citation needed]
No map, lookin' for the one I love
'Cause the one I love is here
No map, lookin' for the one who stands
'Cause he's armin' me from fear
He got tuned in, so
Through the other side
Lives spent diggin' holes, so
Through the ones that hide
See the white eyes
I'm a stuntman
See the white eyes
I'm a stuntman
See the white eyes
I'm a stuntman
See the white eyes
More cuts taken for the one in silence
Now he sits between my ears
His moves in madness, how I love the rush
Could you wipe away these tears
And we got taken by
A rush of blood
My trains leaving now
How I wish I could
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I'm a stuntman
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Ha Ha
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
Bitch I'm tha stuntman and I got dough man
Got so much ice they call me tha ice man
Wanna talk pro man
sumthin You don't know man
bitch I'm movin' bricks long way from a 4 man (ha-ha)
Even be tha droe man
Nawl I'on smoke man
Tryna see it big in tha stop to kick doors man
Stack fa da show man
20 grand oh man
Even got my own gear wit stoney on tha clothes man
Sixes not four man
Platinum not dough man
D4L big on tha all rose gold van
Haters don't understand
I'm not tryin to be tha man
I wasn't born wit a silver spoon
But bitch I'm tha stunt man
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
Had real big dreams since I was young to be tha stuntman
2 kids and a wifey with anything I want man
How to be a superstar
How to drive the finest cars
Son ain't nun but seven years old and already got a car
? Is good too
coped her a cellphone
never turn on my crew
D4L we made it home
We stay in tha trap
Tryna get that money up
So ? gone stunt
Cuz he got mega bucks
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man
So in tha club I'm throwin' money man
(Damn right)
They try to stop me but stuntman gone still shine
And these diamonds in my necklace they gone still shine
(bling)
Dem niggas hate but this boy ridin' 26's
AC blowin' with tha crew pullin' plenty bitches
Hang low but I'm still poppin' rubberbands
(What's your name??)
Bitch I'm tha stuntman
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
I got money man I got money man (Stuntman)
When I find I'm growing older,
Obstacles that are getting in the way.
If I could click my fingers,
Wish them all away,
Wish them all away,
Wish them all away.
I should try to overcome these obstacles,
Give the world an amazing spectacle to see.
Prove my worth with something visual,
Show more than a modicum of me.
If you had a thought as big as your brain,
That thought's not the sort a brain can contain.
Ready, set, go. I'm a human kangaroo.
I'll jump for you.
Push myself to see what I can do,
Throw me into territories new.
You know that if you had thought as big as your brain,
That thought's not the sort a brain can contain.
People don't want any answers,
They want to work it out for themselves,
Ruin their health and that's not all.
You know I think that,
If you had a thought as big as your brain,
that is not him
coz is a coward him
you give your life
and this is not fine
your body is twisted,
your fame is twisted
your soul is twisted
to the shadow of stars
the body is twisted to the shadow of a light
the brave spirit takes you to fight
when your eyes look around you're the nobodies
but you are the superstar
the adrenaline pulsates and makes you alive
feeling unreal they make her your bride
when your eyes look around you're the nobodies
but you are the only star
Stuntman, you livin’ shadows
Step up to the mirror, tell me what it is you see
Really must be hard being you
4 lies you tell, you'll go to hell & I can't even wish you well
Soon you'll play yourself and you'll be through
People like you want people like me
To forget about my integrity
Try to pull a scam the best you can
Don't like traitors, don't like punks
Don't like lyin' thieving chumps
Turned out you were just another stuntman!
Used to be a time when I considered you a friend
Faith in you you know I'd never lack
When I found out what you were all about
And in my mind there is no doubt
My good friend has stabbed me in the back!
Record companies mother fuckers!
Pullin' stunts like chicken pluckers
Tell me what the flavor is today
Hardcore, grindcore, guitar, pop
Won't play metal, you'll get dropped
Then we'll have to send you on your way!
But we'll be back!