Stuntman! : My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life

English

ISBN: 0316078999

EAN: 9780316078993

Category: Performing Arts / Individual Director/Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts/Performing Arts / Acting & Auditioning/

Publisher: Little Brown & Company

Release Date: 02/01/2011

Synopsis: Yep thats me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt. When youre on fire you dont dare breathe because if you do, youll suck those flames right down your throat. I was Hollywoods highest paid stuntman so I should know. I wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown up, was dragged by horses, and along the way broke 56 bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth...I hung upside down by my ankles under a bi-plane in The Spirit of St. Louis, jumped between galloping horses in Little Big Man, set a world record for a boat stunt on Gator, jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal for a GM commercial, was the first human to test the car airbag-and taught John Wayne how to reallythrow a movie punch. Life also got exciting outside of the movie business. I had my Ferrari stolen right from under my nose, flew in a twin-engine Cessna with a passed out pilot, rescued the cast and crew from a Russian invasion in Czechoslovakia, and once took six flight attendants on a date. I owned the Skoal-Bandit NASCAR race team, the sound-barrier breaking Budweiser Rocket Car and drove a souped-up, fake ambulance in a little cross-country race called The Cannonball Run, which became the movie I directed by the same name. Oh yeah, I also directed Smokey and the Bandit, Hooperand several other action/comedy movies that I liked a bunch. I was a sharecroppers son from the hills of Arkansas who became a Hollywood stuntman. That journey was a tough row to hoe. I continually risked my life but that was the career I chose. I was never late to the set and did whatever I had to do to get the job done. Hollywoods not all sunglasses and autographs. Let me tell you a few stories...

Stuntman! : My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 6.25 inches

Length: 9.5 inches

Weight: 20.04 oz

Pages: 320