Dr. Chimps, you know this stuff good. If ya don't mind I'll tell ya more so I can get it written down and not forget it. ANd you got Stirling right but you failed to mention that he was the voice of the Cheshire cat in Disney's Alice in Wonderland. I knew him fairly well when I lived near Laguna Beach many years ago. He was acting when he was a young kid is in some of those Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney movies.
Can you recall that old time actor who usually appeared as the head waiter and walked the principal players to their table. He did this popping thing with his lips by hitting them with the palm of his hand or the tips of his fingers. I gotta do some research on these old time character actors. Might be a great respite from the competitive bodybuilding world.
JohnnyV, No I cannot get you a stuntman's job. But my best bud in the Corps was Jack Tyree who was one of the original founders of the Stuntmen's Association (or was it Stunts unlimited - or possibly both). He and James Drury and a couple of others set that organization up and built it from the beginning until Jack eventually passed away while make "The Sword and the Sorceror". That film was dedicated to him at the concluding credits and it a very strange story in itself which I think I wrote about on here a few years back.
I missed a lot of stunt work opportunities because I was off in some bnackward country fighting a war whenever the opportunity arose ... such as appearing as some mentally deranged and fire damaged bear in the forest (she was only protecting her young who was also badly disfigured from a forest fire - you probably saw it - I forget its name but Chimp probabloy know it, and then as some underwater sea creature that causes a lot of trouble for a beachfront, Disneyland type park in So Cal, and a number of motorcycle movies that were made in the Hollywood Hills off Mulholland Drive. These motorcycle movies were made with barrowed (actually stolden for 24 hour periods on the weekends) equipment from the various studios that turned an eye to those sorts of stuntmen shenanigans. No one seemed to really care as long as it was all back to where it was supposed to be every Monday morning. And eventtually these motorcycle movies were release throughout the US at various country drive ins and all over Japan in their little towns up and down the countryside. ANd they made money because no one got paid up front. Everyone just took a chance on the weekend in that hope that they would benifit later on. And IT WORKED.
I even attended a meeting at Sean Flynn's (Errol Flynn's son) residence in Studio City at which one of these movies was planned for the following weekend. All these motorcycle guys and stuntmen in their cowboy clothes gathered around a smokey table overlooked by original Rimbrants, Van Gohs, and other masterpieces. At first I thought that they were copies but then someone said that they belonged to his dad and I asked. "Who was his dad?" and got the answer and fully understood that these were genuine originals.
I was on set up in those hills on many occasions but never did have an inclination to hop on a bike and get in the picture. I enjoyed it more behind the camera and handing out the band-aids when required. Or serving as a lookout when the cops were on their way.
Most of those guys are long gone now and just last year I made a visit to the Stuntman's Association over in the valley only to see that eveything was completely different now and one new guy even told me that you had to be a cut-throat to get a decent stunt job in today's Hollywood motion picture producing machine. Either that or damn luck or have a family member involved in the production of that particular motion picture.
So, "NO! I cannot, JohnnyV!" Would if I could but I cannot. I can get myself stunt "coordinating" work but as I stated above, only if and when friends or family members are involved in that movies' production.
