If you've been a Pontiac fan for any length of time, but in particular, one who fancies Firebirds, you've no doubt screened Smokey and the Bandit. Not only was it the last movie Alfred Hitchcock ...

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This is FRESH AIR. Hal Needham probably was one of the most famous Hollywood stunt doubles. He did all kinds of stunts in all kinds of movies, but he got his start in Western movies and TV shows such ...

He was a paratrooper, a billboard model for Viceroy Cigarettes, worked on 10 films with John "The Duke" Wayne, stunt doubled for Richard Boone in "Have Gun, Will Travel," wrote the screenplay for and ...

Needham, who died in 2013, worked as a Hollywood stuntman for over 40 years. In this 2011 interview, he detailed some of his most death-defying feats — and why he disliked modern special effects. This ...