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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
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.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Stuntman Stan Barrett is also known as the driver of the Budweiser Rocket car, which unofficially hit 739.666
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* [http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0533456/ Erin Mackey,] who played the back of Lindsay Lohan's head in Disney's 1998 remake of ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]''.
* [http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0585050/ Shelley Michelle], whose legs and body have been seen in numerous films under the guise of being someone else's, including ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' (as Julia
* Parodied in ''[[Spaceballs]]'' by having the heroes use their stunt doubles for a [[Decoy Getaway]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwV61t_Tec8 You've captured their stunt doubles!]" Bonus points for having Princess Vespa's double be a man.
** A man with a moustache and chomping a cigar, just for extra [[Rule of Funny]].
* Jackie Chan is a notable exception. He started off his career as a stunt man, and having become a lead actor since then, he still does many of his own stunts instead of enlisting a
** Jackie Chan had stopped doing all of his major stunts by the time North American audiences knew who he was, though his publicists have continued the illusion.
*** Actually, he stopped doing his own stunts partly due to his age and partly due to the fact that he's suffered many injuries, including a few to his head, that it's not advisable for him to do risky things any more.
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* Most of the [[James Bond (film)|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 in ''[[A View to a Kill]]''.
** [[Daniel Craig]] and [[Pierce Brosnan]] claim to have multiple scars from their stuntwork.
* The [[So Bad It's Good]] movie ''[
* According to an unpublished story for SPIN Magazine that was released online in 2009, nearly every scene of [[Wesley Snipes]] in ''[[Blade Trinity]]'' is his stunt double. Snipes was allegedly unhappy with the Director and script, so he only fulfilled the bare minimum his contract required and was only on set to shoot close-ups and dialogue scenes. None of the cast or crew have verified the story, however, so take it with a grain of salt.
* Perhaps somewhat ironically, the 1978 Burt Reynolds movie ''Hooper'', about stuntmen, features a very obvious stuntman, when Hooper is riding a horse.
* [[Averted]] in
* An equine variant in ''[[The Black Stallion]].'' Cass Ole was a champion showhorse and exceptionally valuable, so his owners restricted what he was allowed to do on camera. When the Black is shown galloping full-out, for example, it's always a double...and the double may or may not be an Arabian.
* In ''[[Soul Surfer]]'', [[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Fall Guy (TV series)|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 "''The Six Million Dollar Man''" Majors, used a stunt double himself.
* The original ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' is somewhat infamous for using stunt doubles who looked nothing like the actual actors and making no effort to hide their faces.
** The obvious use of stunt-doubles is (like absolutely everything else on the screen) a target for nitpicking. An episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' reflects most people's view of the importance of this as ultra-nerd Neil Goldman delivers a lecture on instances of [[William Shatner]] using a stunt double on ''Star Trek'' to his bored classmates. With tragic inevitability, someone on Wikipedia has in fact pointed out that that particular episode didn't feature any stunt work so the Family Guy writers are wrong (!)
* On ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', the lead actors do their own stunts whenever possible.
* From ''[[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.
* 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 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':
{{quote|"Oh, looks like Buffy's got her [[Boobs of Steel|fightin' boobs]] on!"}}
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