- Samuel Dalembert
Samuel Davis Dalembert (born May 10, 1981 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a professional basketball player who plays center with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. Dalembert began playing in Montreal, Canada and played college basketball at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, US. He is an occasional double-double achiever for the Sixers and averages around 3 blocks per game - placing him among the league's elite in this category. - Josh Childress
Joshua (Josh) Malik Childress (born June 20, 1983 in Harbor City, California) is an NBA basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks. Childress attended college at Stanford University, where he was an All American and the Pac 10 player of the year as a junior in 2004. After the season, he declared for the 2004 NBA draft and was a first-round pick, number six overall. This is the highest a Stanford player has ever been drafted. - Reggie Evans
Reginald (Reggie) Jamaal Evans (born May 18 1980, in Pensacola, Florida) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Denver Nuggets. He was undrafted despite an impressive career at the University of Iowa. In 2001, Evans led the nation in free throws attempted, free throws made, and double-doubles. He led the Big Ten Conference in rebounding in 2001 and 2002, and was named Big Ten Tournament MVP in 2001 and Second Team All-Big Ten in 2002. - Kenny Thomas
Kenneth (Kenny) Cornelius Thomas (born July 25 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American professional basketball player. He currently plays power forward for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association. He attended high school in El Paso, Texas, before moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico to play for Albuquerque High School during his senior season. Thomas attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, … - Dominic James
Dominic James (born October 5, 1986 in Richmond, Indiana) is an American basketball player. James plays for the Marquette University Golden Eagles men's basketball team. The 5"11 175 pound point guard averaged 14.9 points, 4.9 assists, and 3.0 rebounds per game in 2006-2007. - Danny Fortson
Daniel Anthony Fortson (born on March 27 1976 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a professional basketball player at power forward/center formerly of the Seattle SuperSonics of the NBA. - Kyle Visser
Kyle Visser (born October 19, 1985) was a center on the Wake Forest men's basketball team from 2003-04 to 2006-07. He is considered by ESPN as the nation's most improved college basketball player after having scored 466 points this past season, which is more than his previous three seasons combined. Visser ranked seventh in the ACC in scoring at 17.3 ppg, and ranked second in the league in field goal shooting percentage (.593). - Kevinn Pinkney
Kevinn Pinkney (born October 10 1983 in Colton, California) is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the NBA. Despite a highly successful career as a power forward at the University of Nevada, Reno where he also played with 2007 draft prospect Nick Fazekas and led the overachieving Wolfpack to the Sweet 16 of the 2005 NCAA Tournament, the 6'10" Pinkney did not hear his name called on draft night of 2005. - Bill Bridges
William C. "Bill" Bridges (born April 4, 1939 in Hobbs, New Mexico) is a retired American basketball player. A 6'6" power forward from the University of Kansas, he spent 13 seasons (1962-1975) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Lakers, and Golden State Warriors. He won an NBA Championship with the Warriors in 1975 and appeared in three All-Star Games during the course of his career. - Elmore Smith
Elmore Smith (born May 9, 1949 in Macon, Georgia) is a retired American basketball player. A 7'0" center from Kentucky State University, he played for in the National Basketball Association from 1971 to 1979. He was a member of the Buffalo Braves, Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks, and Cleveland Cavaliers. In his first season, Smith averaged 17.3 points per game and 15.2 rebounds per game and was named to the NBA's All-Rookie Team. - Willie Naulls
William Dean "Willie" Naulls (born October 7, 1934 in Dallas, Texas) is a retired American basketball player. A 6'6" power forward/center, he played professionally in the National Basketball Association from 1956 to 1966. After playing at UCLA, Naulls was drafted by the St. Louis Hawks in 1956. He spent just 19 games with the Hawks, however, before being traded to the New York Knicks, with whom he would spend the prime of his career. - Lloyd Neal
Lloyd Neal (born December 10 1950 in Talbotton, Georgia) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'7" forward/center from Tennessee State University, Neal spent his entire professional career (1972-1979) with the National Basketball Association's Portland Trail Blazers. Though undersized for his position, he endeared himself to fans with his hard work and tenacity, and he averaged a double-double (13.4 points, 11.8 rebounds) during the 1972-73 NBA season. - Chun Lee-Kyung
Chun Lee-Kyung (born January 6, 1976) is a Korean short track speed skater, who dominated women's short track for much of 1990s. Chun took part in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, at the age of 15, but failed to win much attention. In 1994, however, Chun won two gold medals at the Lillehammer Winter Olympic Games. She won the women's 1000 m final with time of 1 minute 36.87 seconds, and was part of the team that won the 3000m relay in a world record time. - Double Shah
Syed Sibtul Hassan Shah alias Double Shah was a teacher who started a financial scam in Pakistan. Syed Sibtul Hassan Shah, who is in aged between 40 - 45 and is known as ‘Double Shah’, is the resident of Pak town - a lower middle class area - in Wazirabad, a tehsil of Gujranwala. He is a BSc and BEd and was a science teacher at Government High School, Nizamabad till 2005. - Double
Double is the stage name for Japanese pop singer Takako Hirasawa. Previously, it was the name for a vocal group comprising Takako and her sister Sachiko. Takako and Sachiko Hirasawa were born in the Niigata prefecture in Japan, and made their debut as a duo in 1998 under the name "Double." Sachiko died in 1999. Takako, rather than abandoning the name, adopted it as her stage name. - Jim Beglin
James Martin Beglin was a talented full back with Liverpool F.C. during their historic "double" year of 1986 whose career was cruelly cut short by injury. Beglin was the last signing made by legendary Liverpool manager Bob Paisley when he joined from Shamrock Rovers F.C. for just £20,000 in May 1983. With Rovers he had already played in Europe in the UEFA Cup scoring once. He was gradually introduced to the first team picture over the next 18 months by Joe Fagan, … - Dean Smith
Finis Dean Smith (born January 15, 1932) is a former American athlete and stuntman, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Born in Breckenridge, Texas, Smith won the AAU championships in 100 m in 1952. At the Helsinki Olympics, he was fourth in the 100 m and ran the leadoff leg for American gold medal winning 4x100 m relay team. After graduating from University of Texas at Austin, … - Anthony de Longis
Anthony Charles De Longis, born March 23, 1950, in Glendale, California, United States, is an American actor, stuntman, and choreographer. Anthony is well known for his recurring role on "Star Trek Voyager", in Season 1 and early Season 2, as First Maje Jal Culluh, leader of the Kazon-Nistrim. An experienced swordsman, he is also known for the his roles on "Highlander", in Season 3 as Lymon Kurlow in the episode "Blackmail", … - Rob Estes
Robert Estes (born July 22 1963 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American actor. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Estes is a graduate from the University of Southern California where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He caught the acting bug while training to be a stunt double. One of his first acting jobs was in the daytime drama "Days of Our Lives" playing "Glenn Gallagher". - Peter Woodward
Peter Woodward (born 24 January, 1956 in London) is a British actor and stuntman. He is probably best known for his role as Galen in the "Babylon 5" spin-offs Crusade and Babylon 5: The Lost Tales. He was born into a family of actors. His father, Edward Woodward, brother Tim and sister, Sarah, are all successful actors. Peter graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, … - Kiran Shah
Kiran Shah, born in 1956 is an actor and a stuntman, born in Nairobi, Kenya. He lived in Kenya until he was twelve years old, when he moved to India with his family. While living in India, he became interested in films, and when his family moved to London, he became involved in the show business. His first film was the 1976 movie "Candleshoe", as a stand-in for a girl called Sara Tamakuni, and when stunt coordinator Bob Anderson asked him to do her stunts as well, … - Karen Price
Karen Elaina Price (born July 17, 1960 in Pasadena, California) is an American model, stunt woman and television producer. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month in January 1981. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. The Playboy issue with her centerfold is famous for having one of the last interviews with John Lennon. It came out about the time of his murder. After she became a Playmate, Karen started acting, … - Christopher Parker
Christopher Parker (born August 24 1983) is an English actor and television presenter. - Vic Armstrong
Vic Armstrong (born October 5, 1946) is a BAFTA winning British Film Director and stunt double -- the world's most prolific according to the Guinness Book of Records. The strapping, 6-foot Armstrong doubled for 6'1" Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones trilogy, 6'2" Timothy Dalton for "Flash Gordon" and 6'4" Christopher Reeve in "Superman II". - Frank Beddor
Frank Beddor is a former world champion freestyle skier, a film producer, actor, stuntman, and author. He produced There's Something About Mary and the as yet unreleased film version of Wicked (film). Beddor is the CEO of the production company Automatic Pictures, and wrote the novel "The Looking Glass Wars" as the first of his "Alyss of Wonderland" trilogy. Frank Beddor graduated from Benilde-St. Margaret's High school(MN) in 1977. - Peter Diamond
Peter Diamond (1929 - 27 March 2004) was an actor who had trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who is best remembered as probably the UK's leading stuntman on television or film. His appearances total over 1,000 credits in the industry as a stuntman, co-ordinator or fight arranger. Perhaps his most famous appearance was as the Tusken Raider who attacked Luke Skywalker in the first "Star Wars" film. - Ken Lo
Ken Lo Wai-kwong is a Hong Kong stuntman and actor born in Stung Treng, Cambodia on March, [[http://www.brns.com/hkactors/pages/page19.html]. In 1975, he moved from Cambodia to Thailand, then 5 years later, he fled to Hong Kong where he met Jackie Chan and became his bodyguard in 1987. His idol was Bruce Lee which lead him to practice Thai Boxing and Tae Kwon Do. - Johnny Tri Nguyen
Johnny Tri Nguyen (born February 16 1974 in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American film and television actor, stunt double, and martial artist. He left Vietnam at the age of 8 with his family, mother, father, older brother, and older sister and moved to Los Angeles, CA. He is half Vietnamese and half Chinese from his mom's side.. Johnny Nguyen comes from a family with deep roots in the Vietnamese entertainment industry. - Howard Jackson
Howard E. Jackson (1951 - 7 March 2006) was a noted American kickboxer, point Karate fighter, and professional boxer. He was born in 1951 in Detroit, Michigan, the oldest of four children; two brothers died violent deaths, and his parents died early as well, leaving only Howard and his sister Corliss. He began studying Kung Fu in 1967, switching to Tang Soo Do soon after, and earning his black belt in 1970 from Hwang Kee. - Derek Martin
Derek Martin (Born 11 April 1933 in Bow, London) is a soap opera actor who is best known for his role as Charlie Slater in the British soap opera "EastEnders" which he has played since September 2000. Martin started his showbiz career as a stuntman but after breaking his collar bone filming the drama "Elizabeth R" he switched to acting. In 1982 he became the second actor to take on the role of R. D. Wingfield's fictional Detective Inspector Jack Frost, … - David R. Ellis
David Richard Ellis (born September 8, 1952 in Santa Monica, California) is an American film director and a former stuntman. Ellis began his career in the film industry as a supporting actor in juvenile roles; his big screen debut was in the 1975 Kurt Russell film "The Strongest Man in the World". One year later, he switched to stunts in the film "Baby Blue Marine" and worked from then on as a stuntman. - Felix Silla
Felix Silla is a veteran motion picture and television actor and stuntman of Italian origin, best known for his role as "Cousin Itt" on television's "The Addams Family", and many other classic character roles. - Dan Haggerty
Dan Haggerty (b. November 19, 1941 in Hollywood, California) was the burly, bearded star of TV's "Grizzly Adams". He was born in Hollywood, growing up amidst the Southern California bodybuilding lifestyle. He had early roles in "Muscle Beach Party" and the Elvis Presley film "Girl Happy". His ease in working with animals got him work as a trainer and handler for Walt Disney films, and he found steady work as a stuntman on the Ron Ely's TV show "Tarzan". - Bob Anderson
Bob Anderson (born 15 September 1922) is an English actor and fencer. Anderson also owns a claim to fame for being a stunt double for Darth Vader in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi". He is one of seven people to have played that character. He was born in Hampshire. Anderson did not receive much recognition for his role in the "Star Wars" films for years after their initial release, … - Stanton Barrett
Stanton Barrett (born December 1, 1972 in Bishop, California) is a NASCAR Nextel Cup and Busch Series driver and Hollywood stuntman. He currently drives the #52 for Ware Racing Enterprises part-time and McGill Motorsports full-time. - Paddy Crean
Patrick "Paddy" Crean was a professional actor and theatrical fight director who was one of the most influential figures in the art of modern stage combat. Crean, who had a background in competitive fencing, began choreographing fights in 1932 when he was working in his native England as an actor in "The Legends of Don Juan". - George Willig
George Willig (aka "the human fly" or "the spiderman") is a mountain-climber from Queens, New York, United States, who climbed the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center on 26 May, 1977. At the time, it was the third tallest building in the world (behind 1 WTC and the Sears Tower). It took him 3.5 hours to scale the tower. New York City Mayor Abraham Beame fined him $1.10, one cent for each of the skyscraper's 110 stories. Before the stunt, Willig was a toymaker. - Arthur Mullard
Arthur Mullard (19 September 1912?-11 December 1995) was an English comedy actor. His exact year of birth seems uncertain, quoted as 1908, 1910, 1912 and 1913 from various sources. - Toulo de Graffenried
Baron Emmanuel 'Toulo' de Graffenried (18 May 1914, Paris, France - 22 January 2007, Lonay, Switzerland) was a Swiss motor racing driver. He participated in 23 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on May 13, 1950, and scored a total of 9 championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races. Toulo de Graffenried began his racing career in 1936, driving his own Maserati voiturette. - Dar Robinson
Dar Allen Robinson (March 26, 1947 - November 21, 1986) was a film stuntman and film actor. Dar Robinson grew up in Los Angeles, California. Dar broke 9 world records and made 21 "worlds firsts." He invented the decelerator (use of dragline cables rather than airbags for stunts that called for a jump from high places,) which allowed a cameraman to film a top-down view of the stuntman as he fell without accidentally showing the airbag on the ground.
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