Cowboy Stuntman From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen

Dean Smith has taken falls from galloping horses, engaged in fistfights with Kirk Douglas and George C. Scott, donned red wig and white tights to double Maureen O'Hara, and taught Goldie Hawn how to talk like a Texan.He's dangled from a helicopter over the skyscrapers of Manhattan while clutching a damsel in distress, hung upside down from a fake blimp 200 feet over the Orange Bowl, and replicated one of the most famous scenes in movie history by climbing on a thundering team of horses to stop a runaway stagecoach.Cowboy Stuntman chronicles the life and achievements of this colorful Texan and Olympic gold medal winner who spent a half century as a Hollywood stuntman and actor, appearing in ten John Wayne movies and doubling for a long list of actors as diverse as Robert Culp, Michael Landon, Steve Martin, Strother Martin, Robert Redford, and Roy Rogers.

ISBN:	9781682831489
Publisher:	Texas Tech University Press
Imprint:	Texas Tech University Press
Published date:	30 Jun 2022
DEWEY:	791.43028092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	277
Weight:	413g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	16mm

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