Biography
Gary McLarty (January 16, 1941 β October 11, 2014) was an American stunt performer and stunt coordinator for film and television. His abilities earned him the nickname "Whiz Kid" in Hollywood. McLarty performed stunts in over 150 films between 1966 and 2004, among them The Wild Bunch, Little Big Man, The Longest Yard, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Jurassic Park, Heat, and Collateral.
He was in the helicopter, as a stunt coordinator, when actor Vic Morrow and two children died in an accident on a "Twilight Zone" movie set. In the subsequent trial, McLarty testified that, prior to the accident, he had warned director John Landis that the stunt was too dangerous. In 1991 McLarty shot and killed his roommate. McLarty was cleared of all charges when the Deputy District Attorney determined that it was a clear case of justifiable homicide. On the Friday before as part of a bizarre series of events another man had been fatally shot by Sheriff's deputies at McLarty's Lake View Terrace ranch. McLarty's house also caught on fire and burned down during the same incident. McLarty semi-retired from stunt work in 2004. The following year, he testified at the murder trial of actor Robert Blake, testifying that Blake offered him $10,000 to murder Blake's wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley; McLarty declined. Bakley was fatally shot in Blake's car outside a restaurant in May 2001. Blake was thought by most to be the actual murderer, but was acquitted in a 2005 criminal trial.
McLarty died on October 11, 2014 when a pickup truck driven by fellow stuntman Bob Orrison making a U-turn was broadsided by a Jeep Cherokee in Rancho Cordova, California, USA. Both stuntmen were killed instantly. The two persons in the Jeep Cherokee were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
Filmography
all 155
Movies 154
TV Shows 1
Director 1
The Hollywood Mom's Mystery (2004)
Collateral (2004)
Murder Without Conviction (2004)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
Critical Mass (2001)
Sonic Impact (2000)
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Active Stealth (1999)
Enemy of the State (1998)
The Siege (1998)
Mr. Murder (1998)
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
Batman & Robin (1997)
The Sleepwalker Killing (1997)
The Rich Man's Wife (1996)
Raven Hawk (1996)
The Phantom (1996)
The Sunchaser (1996)
Executive Decision (1996)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Heat (1995)
Jade (1995)
Showgirls (1995)
Waterworld (1995)
Clueless (1995)
Night of the Running Man (1995)
A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)
Double Dragon (1994)
The Puppet Masters (1994)
Wyatt Earp (1994)
Shrunken Heads (1994)
Chasers (1994)
Full Eclipse (1993)
Josh and S.A.M. (1993)
Demolition Man (1993)
Gettysburg (1993)
Father Hood (1993)
Extreme Justice (1993)
Last Action Hero (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Warlock: The Armageddon (1993)
Falling Down (1993)
Nowhere to Run (1993)
Roots of Evil (1992)
Patriot Games (1992)
Brain Donors (1992)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
976-EVIL II (1992)
Life Stinks (1991)
Stone Cold (1991)
Hook (1991)
Captain America (1990)
Ghost (1990)
Ghost Dad (1990)
Days of Thunder (1990)
Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
Miami Blues (1990)
Catchfire (1990)
The Last of the Finest (1990)
Hard to Kill (1990)
Tango & Cash (1989)
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Road House (1989)
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Rambo III (1988)
The Seventh Sign (1988)
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988)
Code Name: Zebra (1987)
Less Than Zero (1987)
Rolling Vengeance (1987)
Bluffing It (1987)
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Nightforce (1987)
Winners Take All (1987)
Over the Top (1987)
Wisdom (1986)
Modern Girls (1986)
Out of Bounds (1986)
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Eye of the Tiger (1986)
Triplecross (1986)
Never Too Young to Die (1986)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Cobra (1986)
F/X (1986)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Commando (1985)
Warning Sign (1985)
Moving Violations (1985)
Into the Night (1985)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
The Terminator (1984)
A Breed Apart (1984)
Police Academy (1984)
Airwolf (1984)
The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
Scarface (1983)
Stroker Ace (1983)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
Blue Thunder (1983)
The Vals (1982)
The Entity (1982)
Yes, Giorgio (1982)
Blade Runner (1982)
Cannery Row (1982)
S.O.B. (1981)
...All the Marbles (1981)
Coast to Coast (1980)
Gridlock (1980)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
When Time Ran Out... (1980)
1941 (1979)
Animal House (1978)
Hooper (1978)
Convoy (1978)
The Great Smokey Roadblock (1978)
Mayday at 40,000 Feet (1977)
Vigilante Force (1976)
The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
"Mitchell"! (1975)
Crazy Mama (1975)
Flash and the Firecat (1975)
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)
The Front Page (1974)
The Longest Yard (1974)
The Dion Brothers (1974)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
Policewomen (1974)
McQ (1974)
The Stone Killer (1973)
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Chrome and Hot Leather (1971)
Little Big Man (1970)
C.C. and Company (1970)
Chisum (1970)
The Losers (1970)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
The Undefeated (1969)
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Run, Angel, Run! (1969)
Hellfighters (1968)
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Bandolero! (1968)
The Way West (1967)
Beau Geste (1966)
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Birthday1941-01-16
Deathday2014-10-11 (73 years old)
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