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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]]''.
* [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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