I’m paying the price physically, but it’s the adrenaline rush. What about you, Terry, why do you keep doing what you do? What was your driving factor? They asked, ‘How do we make up someone to look like this older guy to do that and do this stunt?’ I suggested Bobby, and he came in. Three years ago, they had a spot where they were doing a gag that required someone older. Alex, you have to share that story.Īlex Daniels: It was for “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” I’ve been stunt coordinator for that for over 18 years. Alex gave me my last job, I was in my ‘90s and they wanted an older guy, so that worked out fine. I thought, ‘That’s the way I want to go.’ I’d watch the actors ride them and realized that was for me. My stepfather rented horses to the studios and I started wrangling them for the actors and the stuntmen to ride, and it made more money. Herron: Obviously I have a hearing problem from too many gunshots over the years and a few accidents.
What is it about stunts that you love so much, given the risk factor? Bob and the members back in the day propelled the image forward where stuntmen are looked at as professionals and it’s due to the work Bobby did. Terry Leonard: Back in the day, if you weren’t a member of the association, they did not look at you as a hardcore stunt person. Once you became a member, your respectability increased, the kind of movies you did were a higher grade. How does it feel to be celebrating 60 years?Ĭonrad Palmisano: I take my hat off to the founding members and the men who professionalized the stunt industry. And when I started the organization, it started to bring the stunt people together. Take us back to why you started the association?īob Herron: I started it because there wasn’t a network for the stuntmen to organize with each other we were all separate.
Bob, you are a charter member of the Stuntmen’s Association. ^ "Drugs, Tragedies and 'Charlie's Angels' "."Jimmy Nickerson Dies: Veteran Hollywood Stuntman On 'Rocky', 'Raging Bull', & Dozens Of Others". "Heidi von Beltz Dies: Stuntwoman Paralyzed In 'Cannonball Run' Crash Was 59". Archived from the original on 26 June 2001. "Lethal Weapon Terry O'Neill interviews Mel Gibson". Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s: A Biographical Dictionary (2nd ed.). He suffered from Parkinson's disease until his death by suicide in Los Angeles. He was stepfather to Collins' four children, including actress Bo Derek. His second wife was Norma Collins, whom he was married to until his death. Personal life īass had two sons with his first wife. He abandoned her after the accident, and von Beltz was awarded $4.6 million in a wrongful-injury lawsuit. īass also championed safer working conditions for the stunt industry, especially after his then-fiancée and Melanie Griffith's best friend, Heidi von Beltz, was paralyzed performing a stunt that Bass had coordinated in 1980 for Cannonball Run.
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Bass appeared in TV commercials and TV series such as Fantasy Island, MacGyver, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek: The Original Series, The A-Team, and The Twilight Zone. He taught martial arts and weapons handling to Geena Davis, Michael Douglas, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon, and Kathleen Turner. Career īass made a career in movies and television in a variety of genres working with Burt Reynolds, Sylvester Stallone, and John Wayne. He resumed competing in judo and attained the rank of third degree black belt. īass served in the military, initially as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division and then in Special Forces to become a special forces instructor. As a teenager, he became a judo champion, meeting Gene LeBell who introduced him to the stunt industry in Hollywood. Bobby Bass (occasionally Bob Bass) (Augin California – November 7, 2001) was an American actor, stunt performer, and stunt coordinator/second unit director.īass, a graduate of Morningside High School in Inglewood, California, was an enthusiast of the martial arts.
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