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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]]''.

* [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 Roberts—it's her body in the movie's well-known poster, and her legs in the "boot scene" at the beginning), ''The Prince of Tides'' (as Barbra Streisand's legs) and ''My Stepmother Is An Alien'' (doubling for Kim Basinger, especially in the dressing scene at the start).

* 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.

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* Perhaps somewhat ironically, the 1978 Burt Reynolds movie ''Hooper'', about stuntmen, features a very obvious stuntman, when Hooper is riding a horse.

* [[Averted]] in The [[Silent Age Of Cinema]]. [[Buster Keaton]], [[Charlie Chaplin]], [[Douglas Fairbanks Senior]] were just a few of the many actors who did their own stunts. And when you see [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|what those stunts were...]]

* 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]]'', [[~~Anna Sophia~~ Robb]] plays real-life surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack. While there's a regular stunt double who performs the surfing scenes prior to the attack, the producers had a hard time finding a one-armed stunt double who could surf, so Hamilton ended up being the stunt double for the fictional version of herself post-attack.

* In ''[[Soul Surfer]]'', [[AnnaSophia Robb]] plays real-life surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack. While there's a regular stunt double who performs the surfing scenes prior to the attack, the producers had a hard time finding a one-armed stunt double who could surf, so Hamilton ended up being the stunt double for the fictional version of herself post-attack.

== [[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!"}}