Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen

Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen

Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen

Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781682831489
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Publication date: 05/31/2022
Pages: 278
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Retired stuntman and actorDean Smith, an Olympic gold medalist at the 1952 Helsinki Games, lives on a ranch in Ivan, Texas, with his wife, Debby, and young son, Finis. His long list of honors includes membership in the Stuntman’s Hall of Fame, the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame, and the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

The 2010 recipient of the A.C. Greene Award for lifetime achievement, Mike Cox is the author of twenty-one nonfiction books. An award-winning former journalist and longtime freelance writer, he lives in Fredericksburg, Texas, and is a spokesperson for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

Table of Contents

Illustrations ix

Foreword James Garner xiii

Unsung Heroes: The Author's Acknowledgments xv

Chapter 1 Texas Roots 3

Chapter 2 Saturday Westerns 13

Chapter 3 Riding, Roping, and Running 27

Chapter 4 Hill Hall 45

Chapter 5 Helsinki 53

Chapter 6 Back to the Real World 69

Chapter 7 Going Pro 82

Chapter 8 Maverick Was His Name 86

Chapter 9 Tales of Wells Fargo 95

Chapter 11 In the Money 131

Chapter 12 Back to TV and More Westerns 148

Chapter 13 Doubling the King of the Cowboys 163

Chapter 14 It's a Wrap: Back to Texas 189

Dean Smith Filmography 213

Chronology of Honors 219

Letter from Bob Mathias 221

Letter from the John Wayne Family 223

Index 225

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