Hollywood's Greatest Stunt Performers
by IMDb-Editors | created - 1 week ago | updated - 3 days ago | PublicDiscover just a few of the unsung heroes of Hollywood who risk life and limb to bring amazing stunts to life on screen.
1. Buster Keaton
Actor | The General
Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine ...
Notable titles: The General, Safety Last, Steamboat Bill Jr.
2. Jeannie Epper
Stunts | Romancing the Stone
Jeannie Epper was born on January 27, 1941 in Simi Valley, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Romancing the Stone (1984), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) and Quarantine (2008). She was married to Tim Kimack. She died on May 5, 2024 in Simi Valley, California, USA.
Notable titles: "Wonder Woman," "Charlie's Angels," Romancing the Stone, Kill Bill: Vol. 2
3. Hal Needham
Director | 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 ...
Notable titles: Smokey and the Bandit, The Cannonball Run, Stroker Ace
4. Jackie Chan
Actor | Ngo si seoi
Hong Kong's cheeky, lovable and best-known film star, Jackie Chan endured many years of long, hard work and multiple injuries to establish international success after his start in Hong Kong's manic martial arts cinema industry.
Jackie was born Kong-sang Chan on April 7, 1954, on Hong Kong's famous ...
Notable titles: Police Story, Drunken Master II, Armour of God II: Operation Condor, Fist of Fury, First Strike
5. Debbie Evans
Stunts | The Fast and the Furious
Debbie Evans Stuntwoman
Debbie Evans is considered one of Hollywood's top stunt women. The writing was on the wall from the age of six when she started riding motorcycles in her hometown of Lakewood, California. By the age of nine she started competing in the sport of motorcycle trials. By 1976, she...
Notable titles: The Fast and the Furious, The Matrix Reloaded, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Cliffhanger, Superman Returns
6. Wendy Leech
Stunts | Wonder Woman
Stuntwoman Wendy Leech was born on November 30, 1949 in Buckinghamshire, England. The daughter of stuntman and stunt coordinator George Leech, Leech grew up around the film industry and began performing stunts in movies in the mid-1970's. Among the notable actresses that Wendy has doubled for ...
Notable titles: Wonder Woman, Total Recall, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
7. Dar Robinson
Stunts | To Live and Die in L.A.
One of the modern US cinema's greatest stuntmen and stunt innovators, Dar Robinson only appeared in a relatively small number of films compared to other stuntmen (before losing his life in an off-set motorcycle accident); however, he set new benchmarks in stunt performances.
Robinson first appeared ...
Notable titles: Lethal Weapon, To Live and Die in L.A., Rollerball, "The Fall Guy"
8. Vic Armstrong
Stunts | I Am Legend
He was a stuntman for over 30 years having left school at14 and started working with his father and the intention of being jockey riding point to point but he grew too big. As he was interested in films stuntman jimmy Lodge got him a job working with the horses on the film Arabesque, Some years ...
Notable titles: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Raiders of the Lost Ark, You Only Live Twice, Last Action Hero
9. Colin Follenweider
Stunts | Avengers: Endgame
Colin Follenweider is known for Avengers: Endgame (2019), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). He is married to Marcie Dodd.
Notable titles: Avengers: Endgame, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Ford v Ferrari, Avatar, X-Men: Days of Future Past
10. Michelle Yeoh
Actress | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Michelle Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia. She's the daughter of Janet Yeoh & Kian Teik Yeoh. She's of Hokkien descent, speaking English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since 4, she moved to London to study at the Royal Academy as a teen. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss ...
Notable titles: Tomorrow Never Dies, Supercop, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Yes, Madam!,
11. Logan Holladay
Stunts | CHIPS
Logan Holladay was born on May 15, 1989 in California, USA. He is an actor, known for CHIPS (2017), Nightcrawler (2014) and Logan (2017).
Notable titles: The Fall Guy, Day Shift, 6 Underground, Logan
12. Eddie Kidd
Stunts | First Knight
Eddie Kidd was born on June 22, 1959 in Islington, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for First Knight (1995), Daylight (1996) and Top Secret! (1984).
Notable titles: Hanover Street, GoldenEye, The Living Daylights, First Knight
13. Yakima Canutt
Assistant_director | Ben-Hur
Starting out as a rodeo cowboy and then becoming a stuntman in silent westerns, Yakima Canutt later doubled for such stars as Clark Gable and John Wayne, among others, in such dangerous activities as jumping off the top of a cliff on horseback, leaping from a stagecoach onto its runaway team, being...
Notable titles: Stagecoach, Ben-Hur, The Shadow of the Eagle, Spartacus
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