A member of IATSE's Local 80 Grips since 1993, James C. Udel has held the position of call steward with the Hollywood Union for the past eight years. Besides serving as the Local's archivist, he also penned a feature column for Below the Line magazine called Footnotes. He lives in Sherman Oaks, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Loren Janes

1.¿Childhood and the Early Days

2.¿Going Professional

3.¿Age of the Flying Cowboys

4.¿Wrestling Anacondas, Stunt Associations and McQueen

5.¿When the World Wasn't Padded

6.¿The Misfits, Taras Bulba and The Greatest Story Ever Told

7.¿Western Classics: McLintock! and The Sons of Katie Elder

8.¿­­­­­­G-Men, Camelot and More

9.¿From Apes to Frank Bullitt and Beyond

10.¿Tentpoles and Bogdanovich's Masterpiece Plus Custer's Last Stand

11.¿Life as a Pro

12.¿A Hard Day's Night

13.¿McQueen's Best and Last

14.¿New Beginnings of a Journeyman Player

15.¿Cold, Cold, Cold Around the Heart

16.¿Master of the Tinseltown Universe

Part II: Mickey Gilbert

17.¿Birth of a Champion

18.¿A Career Begins: Alvarez Kelly and Peckinpah

19.¿Cleopatra to Return of a Man Called Horse

20.¿All in a Day's Work

21.¿Sydney Pollack, Redford and Belushi

22.¿Stunt Heaven and Helicopters

23.¿Old Gringo Rides

24.¿Return of the Westerns

25.¿The Fat Lady Sings

Glossary

Index