Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-06-15 | Page 15 | Filmtown Stunt Man Risks Life for 22 Years without Serious Injury

Stunt Man Risks Life for 22 Years Without Serious Injury By John Todd l HOLLYWOOD HOLLY June 15 INS INS INS- In 22 years as a Hollywood stunt stuntman stuntman I Iman man Jimmy Dundee has cracked up automobiles and two airplanes airplanes air air- planes for the benefit of the movie cameras has tumbled from horses crashed rashed through windows leaped from rom cliffs and otherwise risked life f e and limb on an average of once a week But only twice in his career care r has Dundee been on the casualty list list list- and each time he was hurt on a fluke uke The husky square chinned pr professional pro pro- defier of death now fixing to o drive a jeep over a foot 50 embankment em em- for a scene in C. C B. B DeMille's DeMille's De De- Milles Mille's Story of Dr Wassell neatly escaped injury when he fell fell- through a skylight hit a table and then crashed to the floor in The Glass Key Ten minutes later when the cameras even turning he casually stepped from froma and broke a three-foot three platform platform and his leg The other time was when he I overturned a midget auto three times in The Yankee Yankee Yan Yan- kee emerged unhurt and was about t to climb from the wreckage when s so somebody o m e b bod o d y inadvertently slammed the car door and broke his rus hand I Dundee has little regard for what he calls fool courage thinks of himself as an artist whose seemingly seemingly seem seem- suicidal feats are so expertly calculated and executed as to ren ren- der disaster i improbable if not I impossible Its not what you do but how you do it he explains calmly For instance when I do this jeep stunt in The Story of Dr Wassell Ill I'll go over the terrain till I know it by heart Then Ill I'll practice with the jeep till Im I'm absolutely at home in it iThe IThe i iThe The embankment Is at an angle of about 45 degrees not degrees not straight up and down so the jeep wont won't fall it'll turn over and over Well Ill I'll drive off the edge at about 50 miles an hour Of course Ill I'll be strapped in and pretty well padded And once Im I'm over the edge Ill I'll just crouch down and hold on till the thing hits It ought to be a cinch