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When you want to film a dangerous stunt without risking your leads, you call in these people. You dress them up as the characters, give them a wig, and try to avoid having their face on camera.
There are also non-stunt doubles — for instance, the anonymous girl who played the back of Patty Duke's head in The Patty Duke Show whenever the cousins needed to be in the same shot together. Non-stunt doubles are usually called stand-ins or body doubles, and are also used to block and light scenes when the main actors are busy elsewhere, or in the case of child actors, are used to fill in for the main actor in some scenes (particularly those where the main actor's face isn't visible) as young performers could only work for a limited amount of time per child labour laws. The Talent Double appears in instances where the required action is simply too difficult for the actor: complicated ice-skating or dancing, for instance.
This is actually a lot more common than most would expect; though many films have actors appear to engage in highly athletic yet low-risk tasks - lifting and carrying moderately heavy objects, running for more than a few seconds, jumping over small obstacles, climbing fences, ladders and stairs - anyone who actually thinks about doing such things themselves will realize that all but the most athletic would tire very, very quickly, yet actors only appear strained, exhausted, or even out-of-breath when it would be dramatic. Such scenes are in many cases the bulk of a stuntman's work - especially on repeated takes.
Traditionally, female actors were often doubled by small male stunt artists, due to no woman with the required skills being available, or the stunts being considered "too dangerous" for a woman. This still happens on occasion, but the increasing number of female stunt artists makes it much rarer than in the past.
Nowadays it's common for stunt doubles' faces to be replaced with the stars' faces in post production. An early example is Event Horizon: they didn't realise until they sat down to edit the film that Laurence Fishburne's stunt double's face was showing clearly for a couple of seconds in the finale (in his defense, he was on fire). So, the star's face was crudely but effectively pasted over the double's. An earlier example of the same occurs in Jurassic Park. This has opened the door to more flexible use of stuntmen.
The inverse of this is, of course, No Stunt Double.
Supertrope of the Special Effect Failure version - Obvious Stunt Double.
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In Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, Toons are able to create dopples, exact copies of themselves that normally last for a few minutes before crumbling into dust. Those Toons who work in the performing arts use dopples as stunt doubles - who cares if a safe is dropped on someone who will dissolve once the take is over anyway?
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In Instructions Not Included the protagonist is a stunt man (doubling for Johnny Depp in the Show Within a Show), which his daughter thinks is just awesome. However, having such a dangerous occupation causes problems when his custody of her is challenged.
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EMLL and LLI Luchador Black Man served as a stunt double for El Santo during a movie starring the latter. Black Man's greatest success in Lucha came off the heels of the Santo-Los Misioneros de la Muerte feud, where the resulting spike in tercias matches lead to Los Tres Fantasticos (Black Man, Kung Fu, Kato Kung Lee) to become the top draws in Mexico following Santo's retirement.
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In Terminator 2: Judgment Day one was used for certain parts of the motorcycle chase when the T-1000 tried to crush the T-800 between the tow truck and the concrete barrier barely missing.
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Carry On Cruising: Esma Cannon, who couldn't swim, had one standing by for the filming of the swimming pool scenes just in case Cannon couldn't do it.
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Carry On Loving: One is used for Richard O'Callaghan when Bernard Bresslaw throws him around Esme's apartment.
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Carry On Matron: Kenneth Cope had a female stand-in for some scenes.
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The pilot episode of Sheep in the Big City has a scene where Sheep swings on a thread and hits a wall. The scene cuts from sheep jumping off a building before cutting to a low-quality clip of stuntman in a sheep suit hitting the wall and falling painfully to the ground.
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When filming Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen needed a double to do all his shots for a few weeks after he had a heart attack. Rather than shut down production until he recovered, the crew elected to film as much as possible with a double standing in for Sheen (the double having his back turned to the camera) and then doing the close-ups after Sheen was well enough to return. This, and much more from the Troubled Production, is shown in the making-of documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse.
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Carry On... Series:
Carry On Cruising: Esma Cannon, who couldn't swim, had one standing by for the filming of the swimming pool scenes just in case Cannon couldn't do it.
Carry On Cleo: The famous scene where Cleopatra is unrolled from a carpet was actually performed by double Nikki Van der Zyl doubling for Amanda Barrie.
Carry On Cowboy: Diana MacNamara doubles for Angela Douglas in the riding scenes.
Carry On Up the Jungle:
Joan Sims was set to do Lady Bagley's Shower Scene herself but got cold feet after feeling insecure about her body and a body double was brought in instead. Jacki Piper said later on:
Billy Cornelius did many of Ug's stunts for Terry Scott.
Carry On Loving: One is used for Richard O'Callaghan when Bernard Bresslaw throws him around Esme's apartment.
Carry On Matron: Kenneth Cope had a female stand-in for some scenes.
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One episode of Ghost Writer featured a deranged stunt-woman who was terrorizing the actress who'd become famous by her hard work.
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The Stunt Man, of course. It's right there in the title.
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In the Looney Tunes short "A Star Is Bored", Daffy Duck gets a job as Bugs Bunny's stunt double, getting all the Amusing Injuries in Bugs' stead. Interestingly, almost none of the scenes Daffy is doubling for happen in a regular Bugs Bunny cartoon. Why, it's almost as if they were written just to screw over Daffy!
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In Soul Surfer, AnnaSophia Robb plays real-life surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack. While there's a regular stunt double who performs the surfing scenes prior to the attack, the producers had a hard time finding a one-armed stunt double who could surf, so they cast... Bethany Hamilton. Incidentally, this means that the scenes of Hamilton riding the huge wave in the end competition were performed by Bethany herself.
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The Fall Guy was a series about a stunt double, who was also a bounty hunter on the side. Its Theme Tune plays tribute to the guys who make the stars look good, but never get to kiss the girl. Ironically, the lead in this series, Lee Majors, used a stunt double himself.
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Various difficulties lead to stunt doubles and quick cuts being used in fights in Batman Begins (which almost suited the movie's style). In The Dark Knight, pains were taken to ensure that not only could they get long action shots, but that the actors could perform their own stunts if they wanted to. For example, in the scene where The Joker blows up a hospital, the explosion actually occurs with him where it looks like he is in the shot—inside a bus outside the building; and Christian Bale, aside from fighting, also did wire work on top one of Chicago's skyscrapers.
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Trinty, mostly seen in former NWA members Cyberspace, Ohio Valley and TNA, had the gimmick of a wrestling stunt woman.
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On the other hand, Power Rangers often gives stunt doubles actual characters to play like Sharkie & Georgenote The other two punks that originally hung out with Bulk & Skull, Tritor, Eric Myers, A-Squad Pink, extra Kung fu students from Power Rangers Jungle Fury, criminals from Power Rangers RPM and Jayden's dad.
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The Mandalorian:
The title character, played mainly by Pedro Pascal, has multiple stunt doubles. Among others, gunslinger Brendan Wayne (grandson of John Wayne) specializes in shootouts and hand-to-hand combat; Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau previously directed him in Cowboys & Aliens. Martial artist Lateef Crowder tackles the most physically demanding stunts and fight scenes; he previously worked with Pascal on such projects as Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Backstage, all of Mando's performers collaborate to keep his movement consistent. Wayne and Crowder also doubled for Pascal in The Book of Boba Fett.
Lauren Mary Kim substitutes for several actresses during fight scenes, including the Armorer's actress, Emily Swallow.
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Lindsey Stirling has a $40 violin used for scenes in rain, rolling in dirt, etc.; as a good violin costs thousands, this saves it getting ruined. She's named it Ingrid.
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Carry On Up the Jungle:
Joan Sims was set to do Lady Bagley's Shower Scene herself but got cold feet after feeling insecure about her body and a body double was brought in instead. Jacki Piper said later on:
Billy Cornelius did many of Ug's stunts for Terry Scott.
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The characters in Chroma Squad were stuntmen before deciding that hey, they could do their own Sentai show.
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Most of the James Bond actors did some of their own stunts, except for Roger Moore. However, Moore was a former trucker, and used this to great effect with a fire truck in A View to a Kill.
Daniel Craig and Pierce Brosnan claim to have multiple scars from their stuntwork. Brosnan in fact busted his ankle during filming the pre-titles sequence for Die Another Day, requiring production to be shut down for a week while he had surgery. Craig forced the production of both Spectre and No Time to Die to be shut down for weeks as well due to leg injuries (knee in the former, ankle in the latter).
While filming You Only Live Twice, Mie Hama (Kissy) was unable to film the scenes where she was swimming (some sources say she didn't know how to swim, some say she was ill). Sean Connery's then wife, Diane Cilento, volunteered to film the scenes, disguising herself with a black wig.
Renowned French stuntman and stunt coordinator Rémy Julienne did most of the car stunts of the 1980s films of the franchise. The apex of them has to be the tanker truck "skiing" in Licence to Kill.
The 007 in the first Bond Gun Barrel is actually stunt double Bob Simmons, who worked in most of the series until A View to a Kill. Amusingly, Sean Connery actually takes over the gunbarrel in Thunderball... and the cold open afterwards has him fighting Simmons, who played SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar.
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Ghostwriter: In the "Who's Who" arc, Rob explains to Gaby how all the impressive stunts that Lana Barnes did in her movies were actually done with camera tricks and performed by her stunt double. Said stunt double, Roberta Halton, turns out to be the one who's been sending her threatening notes, as she's bitter that Lana Barnes got all the fame and glory that she feels she deserved.
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Smallville occasionally uses stunt doubles. Fans poked fun at a scene where Tom Welling's double clearly has a beard.
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Stargate SG-1: Siler, the technician who is known for always managing to get injured in increasingly ridiculous ways, was played by the stunt coordinator for the series.
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Holiday on the Buses: The shot of Olive's bare bum in the pool didn't use Anna Karen's, but rather an arse double's.
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Carry On Cleo: The famous scene where Cleopatra is unrolled from a carpet was actually performed by double Nikki Van der Zyl doubling for Amanda Barrie.
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Former Altar Boy Luke Hawx insists he wasn't chasing AJ Styles for fifteen years out of any sense of resentment, no no, his career as a stuntman has kept him too happy for those kind of feelings.
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In addition to the Star Trek example, Family Guy parodied incredibly obvious stunt doubles in another episode: Stewie jumps out a window, and the next scene shows a grown man in a (terrible) Stewie costume falling into a dumpster before one last cut shows the real Stewie climb out of it.
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Kamen Rider started using suit actors (stuntmen wearing the hero and villain costumes) back with the original series, after an infamous incident where Hiroshi Fujioka broke his leg when a stunt went wrongnote The franchise wouldn't see another instance of No Stunt Double until 2013's Kamen Rider Gaim, when stuntwoman Minami Tsukui was cast as Yoko Minato (Kamen Rider Malika). Kamen Rider Double spoofs its own usage: in a web-exclusive short, Kirihiko "interviews" the bad guys' cat Mick, eventually getting so mad that he attacks it, at which point Mick is replaced by an obvious plush. Then Mick changes into his monster form and gets revenge, at which point Kirihiko is replaced by a dummy in a suit with a photo of his face taped to the head, all while "he" continues to scream in pain.
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An episode of The Loud House called "Fool Me Twice" has Luan's siblings and parents hire stunt doubles to get out of being pranked by Luan on April Fools' Day. The differences regarding most of them is subtle, but Lynn Sr.'s stunt double is muscular and has a full head of hair, while Lincoln's stunt double is a Miniature Senior Citizen. Unfortunately for the Loud family, Luan turns out to be smarter than she looks, and she uses the stunt doubles against them.
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Batman: The Animated Series: Roxy Rocket, who was added to Batman's Rogues Gallery in the final season of the show, was a stuntwoman who became so obsessed with seeking out dangerous stunts for the sheer thrill of it that she became uninsurable. She then turned to robberies involving dangerous escape routes, and ultimately began calling Batman to her robberies because she found she loved the thrill of trying to escape him.
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The original Star Trek is somewhat infamous for using Obvious Stunt Doubles.
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Carry On Cowboy: Diana MacNamara doubles for Angela Douglas in the riding scenes.
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Secret Garden: In-Universe, Ra-im works for the Action Sports Company as a stuntwoman, usually doing difficult action sequences. When male lead Joo-won falls for her her, he arranges for the department store that he owns to be used as a set for action movies, just so he can see her more often.
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When he couldn't find work as an actor, Wonder Man put his invulnerability to good use by becoming a stuntman.
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While filming You Only Live Twice, Mie Hama (Kissy) was unable to film the scenes where she was swimming (some sources say she didn't know how to swim, some say she was ill). Sean Connery's then wife, Diane Cilento, volunteered to film the scenes, disguising herself with a black wig.
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In Warhammer 40,000, the definitively non-Canon and Played for Laughs 'movie marines' included 10 pt 'stunt doubles' that would absorb a single hit for a marine before dying, but were just as hard to kill as the regular kind.
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Armstrong also doubles Ford in Blade Runner in the scene where Deckard is searching Leon's bathroom and finds the snake scale in the tub.
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The Blackadder the Third episode "Sense and Senility" had Baldrick mention that his father played second codpiece in Macbeth, worn by Macbeth in the fight scenes. To this, Blackadder asks "So he was a stunt codpiece, then?"
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Doctor Who uses them often, with varying degrees of success.
"The Chase" is notorious for having William Hartnell's stunt double, Edmund Warwick, appear onscreen with his face clearly visible for minutes.
Perhaps the most prolific stunt double was Terry Walsh, who doubled for both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.
Walsh ended up playing the Doctor in many scenes in "The Sontaran Experiment" as Tom Baker broke his collarbone while recording. The cinematography of the serial is therefore rather weird, especially by Doctor Who standards, showing Tom mostly in head-and-shoulders closeup with his scarf covering his neck brace, and Terry in extremely long shots where the Doctor's face is pointedly avoided.
Due to the dangerousness of the garment, the Fourth Doctor also had a 'stunt scarf' which was much shorter than the main one used. Both Tom Baker and Terry Walsh can be seen wearing the stunt scarf in various scenes where it would be dangerous to wear the full-length one, and both can be seen on screen at once in "The Android Invasion" (when the Doctor confronts his Evil Knockoff). At one point Tom Baker successfully petitioned the costume designers to get the stunt scarf sewn onto the main scarf to extend it to a monstrous 19'1".
In "The Deadly Assassin", it's quite easy to spot Terry in the fistfight scene in the river - Tom Baker's fine hair hangs down almost straight when wet, but Terry's synthetic wig repels water and remains in Quirky Curls.
Another prolific stuntman was Stuart Fell, whose small size meant he often doubled for the Doctor's companions, including Katy Manning and Louise Jameson, in a wig and dress. It's also he who very nearly falls into a swimming pool while playing a Sontaran in "The Invasion Of Time".
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In one scene in Men in Black, Agent K drives the car up the walls and onto the ceiling of a tunnel, and J, not wearing a seatbelt, flips over—and in a rather infamous blooper, briefly gets a stunt-double-induced Race Lift.
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Bug: This is how the "Stunt Bug" Invincibility Power-Up works, since Bug is actually an actor in a movie and the levels are part of said movie. When Bug takes this powerup, he's replaced with his stunt double who's invulnerable and destroys any mooks he touches.
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In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt plays Cliff Booth, the stunt double of actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) in the discontinued TV show Bounty Law.
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In Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Lucas Lee, being a A-list Hollywood actor, has multiple stunt doubles that he sics on Scott during their fight.
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To emphasize how much of a loser The Intellectual "Savior Of The Unwashed Masses" Damien Sandow had become since cashing in "Money In The Bank" on Monday Night Raw and failing, he ended up being reduced to a stunt double...of The Miz.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Even with steps taken to hide the doubles' faces, the switches are still sometimes obvious. Joss Whedon points this out in the commentary for the "Hush" episode:
They had it easier with Nicholas Brendon, who had a twin brother who did stunt work (and played as his double during "The Replacement", where Xander gets split into two parts of his personality).
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In Looney Tunes: Back in Action, the character Damian Drake Jr. is Brendan Fraser's stunt double. The thing is, he's played by Brendan Fraser.
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Parodied in Spaceballs by having the heroes use their stunt doubles for a Decoy Getaway: "You've captured their stunt doubles!" Princess Vespa's double is a man with a moustache and chomping a cigar, just for extra Rule of Funny.
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In the appropriately titled Sbemail "stunt double", Strong Bad denies that he employs one for his role as Dangeresque. This is proven incorrect by the Sbemail's Running Gag of forcing Strong Sad (poorly dressed as Strong Bad with a paper bag mask) to go through with leaping off Bub's Concession Stand and getting socked by Strong Mad.
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Patricia Tallman, best known as telepath Lyta Alexander of Babylon 5, is also a stuntwoman. In an overlap with what was at the time seen as B5's main rival, she spent time as Nana Visitor's regular combat and stunt double in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Robo Vampire has, among other things, "the most obvious stunt double ever". A blonde woman's stunt double is a short dark-skinned guy with short grey wig and a moustache.
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An episode of Spongebob Squarepants has the gang filming a Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy movie. One scene has Mermaid Man preparing to fight before the film cuts to Sandy dressed as Mermaid Man doing the fighting.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation used stunt doubles whenever the cast had to do anything more strenuous than sit in a chair. The stunt doubles weren't always completely obvious in standard definition, but the blu-ray releases in full high definition make a majority of them stick out quite noticeably.
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During filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Harrison Ford injured his back and was out for several weeks. His stunt double, the legendary Vic Armstrong, was very similar in appearance to Harrison (even for a stunt double) and the two could be mistaken for brothers. Steven Spielberg continued work on the film by using Vic to perform the actions filmed from behind and then later filmed a few token close ups of Harrison to keep the illusion. The resemblance was so great, Ford's son would approach and talk to who he thought was his father before discovering it was Armstrong.
Armstrong also doubles Ford in Blade Runner in the scene where Deckard is searching Leon's bathroom and finds the snake scale in the tub.
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