Stunt doubles

That is the special effects coordinator going down there, Gary Combs. I mean, the fall is, of course, is Nancy, but the big fall is Gary Combs because the stuntwoman we had couldn't do it. So Gary took on, let's say, took a female part there. Gary Combs I worked with also in Hollow Man and in Showgirls. He was my stunt coordinator on three movies. And he had a broken back, too.

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And there was a sequence here where we had this stuntman guy who's playing this fella here. And Paul said he wanted to have him say,

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Nicely done, Mr. Verhoeven. Yeah. I don't know if it was a stuntman. I think it was an actor. No, no, that was one of the stuntmen that... We had a lot of stuntmen who had to have lines in this, and they did really well. Right. Well, we cast 80% of the movie in Dallas, isn't it, Jon? Yes, because we could not take the entire cast from Los Angeles. Because we had no money, isn't it? Right, of course. And it worked out very well, because we were forced to be extremely creative, and the casting women...

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John McTiernan

So the movie had been planned with a second unit, to shoot the attack. And this stuff was all shot, sort of, stuntman style,

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John McTiernan

And no one was hurt on the film. One stunt double for Arnold later on... Ah, there is Painless firing.

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John McTiernan

One stunt double for Arnold, he had hurt his knee. I think we were pretty lucky, we didn't...

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And of course, the ubiquitous bear trap, a signature of David's work. In every movie, there'll be a bear trap. Now, did O.J. do that whole thing himself? Absolutely. Or we cut the stuntman. I think the stuntman fell out of the... But everything else was O.J. Everything else was O.J. Amazing work. And the entire cast is on that plane. I think we're coming up on my dad here. Every family member's in this, right? Yes. Always. There he is with the camera there. Third from the left or second from the right.

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No, we took it out. We took it out. He had a comic take and it made us squirm. I bet this is... I forgot about that one. That's a good gag. Oh, Dr. Alfred, I have Mrs. Kepley's chart. Are you ready to go over it? That's Mallory Sandler, who also used to be in Kentucky Fried Theater. Yeah, and the doctor's a stuntman. Oh, the mother of 12. This guy's been a bad guy in a lot of movies, too. He has. Yeah, I think he was also in 33 and a Third. Was this his first picture? I think he came back, even though he...

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Oh, that's Connie Palmisano. Our stuntman, second unit director. Now, this was a surprise for the audiences. Yeah. We'd actually roped John Houseman into doing this. Oh, my god. He became famous for doing everyone's last picture. I think Ethel Merman died shortly after Airplane. Airplane. And John Houseman literally expired after this picture. Yeah.

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stuntwoman hitting the bed because there was a huge splash of blood, and they were, like, completely offended by that. Right, so you just trimmed frames because she did actually hit the bed, right? I don't know whether you actually see her more than just, you know, make a split second of contact. Father abandoned ten years ago. Mother's in Vegas with a boyfriend. We're trying to reach her now. Now, this is Joseph Whipp, the actor, and John, of course, yourself, but John, before we go to you, Joseph ended up on, I think, Cheers for years, didn't he? Playing, I think, a mad adventurer.

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large stuntman or very very old guys and I just suddenly came to the realization it's not going to be a stuntman that can come up with that kind of evil and probably will be a younger man especially and Robert Englund came in and he had so much enthusiasm for it and was so fearless with the role that he was prepared to play that kind of evil you know it's very difficult for an actor to come up with that kind of portrayal of evil a lot of people try to make it sort of comic or a camp because it's

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Gary Goddard

This is good. This is the stunt double for Billy Barty making a little hop through the fire here. I always liked that shot. Now we have the detective, and he's going to take matters in hand. He's going to get out there. This is the shot coming up that blew out the windows on all the local businesses. Another interesting thing is you're going to see a lot of aerial shots later over this street in Whittier.

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Gary Goddard

but there were pyros on the guy's actual armor, so as the sword hit the stuntman, pyro actually burst from the chest to, you know, emphasize the power of that particular sword. This was actually Franklin Langella's first night. This was his first...

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where they're trying to rescue their friends. This is the first we've heard of them. Right. Oh, here it is. I think here's the wig. I think, and I'm not positive, but it's when he's going to go into the garbage pile. Is that what it is? Or did that already happen? Anyway, Anthony was furious about that wig. He's enraged. Because the stuntman, they put a wig on him that he felt was not. What stuntman?

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The stuntman for Tony Newley that went into the garbage dump, remember? That rolled into the garbage dump? No, that was Anthony. No, it wasn't. Oh, my God. No, we're going to talk about another stuntman coming right up here. That double doctor. Man, oh, man. For this sequence. All five of us had to see ourselves in that moment. Like, that's...

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Paul Davis

And Jim O'Rourke was Clint Eastwood's stuntman. And when they finished on the movie, they traveled around Spain together, working as stuntmen and English coaches for various spaghetti westerns around that kind of boom that was going on. They worked on Spanish movies, Italian movies, British movies.

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Guzmanic Cesare Reddy, who's a special photographer, still works with me. He's worked with me since Jericho Mile in 79. Kathy Swans does here. Billy McSimmons, a great prime master. You started Billy on this picture. John Latangio, world famous. H.P.Evitts, a stuntman, world champion rodeo cowboy. Robert Beatty, one of the best music editors around. Paul Huntsman, still work with Paul and Bob.

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falling uh patty who just pushed the man off the edge was a stuntman i think he was a retired stuntman he's probably the oldest stuntman in the business and he ended up doing so much work on this thing because it was his last chance i think i think that was partly what we were doing giving people a last chance to do something interesting the entire film was basically shot on this one

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Oh, first use of airbags in a film. That's right. Rick Barker was the stunt guy. Rick Barker, yeah. Yeah. Rick Barker, who then was Gary Oldman's stunt double on Sid and Nancy, who went to Nicaragua with him on Walker. Ed Pansullo driving the passenger in the CIA car. Ed Pansullo, this actor, was the roommate of Mark Lewis, the actual repo man with whom I drove around.

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Did Eric really do that or was that a stuntman? No, that was Eric. - That makes sense. We almost had a heart attack. - That makes sense.

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Larry, wake up. You're missing this. Larry's not missing a thing. Oh, no! That's not a real person. It's a stuntman. Okay, now this right here isn't going to bother him because he's insane, okay? Yes, nobody's ever bothered when you're insane when you cut your leg off.

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Poor Eddie. Which, again, was a gag that was spoiled in Fango, because it was that shot coming up. Let me just tell you, the stuntman who did this was a famous, very heroic, very athletic little person. Bobby Porter. Bobby Porter. He was the go-to guy. Unbelievable. He did everything. I think he did Annie climbing the bridge in the Annie movie. Planet of the Apes? The Sun? Right there. He was a fantastic stuntman. And...

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