Monday, April 16, 2007

Jack Williams, 85; Hollywood stuntman known for his horse-riding skills - LA Times
Jack Williams, a top Hollywood stuntman who got his first taste of stunt work on a horse at age 4 — he was tossed from one rider to another in the 1926 silent film "The Flaming Forest" — and later worked his way through USC riding horses and doing stunts in films such as "Gone With the Wind" and "Dodge City," has died. He was 85.

Williams, a charter member of the Stuntmen's Assn. of Motion Pictures and an inductee of the Hollywood Stuntmen's Hall of Fame, died of heart failure Tuesday...

...Beginning with "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in 1936, Williams performed stunts in dozens of films over the next six decades...

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