Recent Obituaries, Classic Films Only

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108. Loren Janes, stuntman

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Loren-Janes-prolific-Hollywood-stuntman-dies-11261303.php

In film after film, Loren Janes leaped from speeding trains, jumped from towering cliffs and roared through city streets in gravity-defying car chases. That’s him flying headlong into a saguaro cactus in “How the West Was Won.” That’s him tumbling down a staircase alongside a drunken John Wayne in “McLintock!” And that’s him — not Steve McQueen — fishtailing down Taylor Street in San Francisco at 90 mph in “Bullitt.”

In a career that spanned decades and with a resume that included westerns, thrillers, comedies, dramas and science fiction, Mr. Janes was the person the studio could count on when the script called for someone to be thrown from a window, dropped into the ocean or shot dead outside a saloon.

“There is a certain idiot element with some stunt people, but Loren was just the opposite,” said Mark Evanier, a Los Angeles comic book and television writer. “He took his work seriously and, remarkably, he never broke a bone.”

A lifelong Los Angeles resident, Mr. Janes died June 24 at 85. He had Alzheimer’s disease. He outlived many of the actors he was hired to double in scenes deemed too risky for a highly paid celebrity.

More on him here:

https://signalscv.com/2017/07/07/stuntman-loren-janes-remembered-bravery-love/

IMDB credits:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0416713/