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A stuntman dies during the making of a police movie; his brother (Robert Forster) takes his place to investigate.
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Jun 1, 1977 · Thriller starring Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis, Ray Sharkey and Joanna Cassidy Also known as Who Is Killing the Stuntmen and The Deadly Game. This was the first film produced by New Line Cinema and began Michael’s relationship with Robert Shaye.
Glen Wilson is a successful stuntman in the movies, as is his brother. When his brother is killed on a movie set in San Luis Obispo, Glen convinces the reluctant producer of the film to let him replace his brother on the project so that he can investigate.
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Harry O'Connor was a Navy SEAL before he got into the stunt industry as a performer and skydiver, and was hired as Vin Diesel's stunt double on the set of xXx. While filming a paragliding scene in Prague, the 45-year-old collided with a pillar of the Palacky Bridge, breaking his neck. He died from his injuries. Director Rob Cohen later said: "We ha...
Famed stunt pilot Art Scholl died while filming footage for the Tom Cruise classic Top Gunin 1985. Scholl had been performing an upside-down spin in a camera-equipped aerobatic biplane when the Pitts S-2 plane plunged into the Pacific Ocean after Scholl was heard saying over the radio: "I have a problem; I have a real problem." Scholl's body and pl...
Stuntman A.J. Bakunas was determined to take back the record won from him by Dar Robinson (see below), by falling from the 22nd floor of a construction site for the 1979 movie Steel,on which he was playing George Kennedy's stunt double. Filming Kennedy's character's death, Bakunas successfully completed the jump, but the airbag beneath him ruptured...
In the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only, Roger Moore's 007 was pursued by Russian assassins, and skis down a bobsleigh track to avoid them. Stuntman Paolo Rigon, 23, was driving the bobsleigh, and was killed when he became trapped under the sleigh, which continued to drag him along. A week earlier in 1981, American bobsledder James Morgan was killed o...
Kun Liu, 25, was killed while performing on an inflatable boat on the Ognyanovo reservoir in Bulgaria. The stunt had involved an on-set explosion which went awry, resulting in Liu's death and another stunt actor, Nuo Sun, being seriously injured. Liu's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Millennium Films and the movie's stunt coordinator...
Back in 2000, veteran stuntman Chris Lamon died six days after an accident on the set of the Steven Seagal and DMX action film Exit Wounds. Lamon, 35, and another stuntman were set to jump out the back of a truck, which was being towed upside down along a street, when he hit his head. Lamon was diagnosed with a fractured skull, and died almost a we...
Joi Harris was the double for actress Zazie Beetz on Deadpool 2, and was performing her first stunt when she was killed in a motorcycle crash in 2017. Harris was killed when she was ejected from the bike she was riding and crashed through the plate glass window of a nearby building. A report from WorkSafeBC found that Foxhad "failed to conduct a ri...
While most films that suffered tragedies would like to distance themselves from fatalities, 1969 Burt Reynolds action film Shark!did the opposite. Originally called Caine, the film changed its name to Shark!after a stuntman was killed by a white shark during filming. Jose Marco, was attacked and killed on camera by a white shark that broke through ...
The crew of John Wu's 2000 film Red Cliffwere left distraught after one stuntman died and six crew members were injured after a fire stunt went out of control. During filming in Xiotang Shan on the outskirts of Beijing, a burning ship crashed into another for a stunt but high winds saw the fires grow out of control, with both ships becoming engulfe...
Veteran stuntman Dar Robinson was known for his death-defying leaps off buildings and from helicopters, and had never broken a bone in his career. But it was during a routine chase on the set of Million Dollar Mysterythat he was involved in a fatal motorcycle stunt. The 39-year-old had been driving a dirt bike around a sharp turn on U.S. Highway 89...
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Sep 2, 2007 · After his brother is killed while dangling from a helicopter for an action film being shot near San Luis Obispo, California, stuntman Glen Wilson (reliable Robert Forster) takes his place in the unit, ostensibly to successfully perform the same stunt, but really to investigate what happened.
Dec 1, 1977 · Stunts AKA 'Who Is Killing the Stuntmen?' AKA 'The Deadly Game' (UK video title) tells of one such guy, Glen Wilson (Robert Forster), who becomes involved in the making of a movie after his brother mysteriously dies performing a stunt.
