Bob Rose (born Robert Theodore Rose; February 4, 1901 – March 8, 1993) was an American actor and stuntman.

Early life

Bob Rose born Robert Theodore Rose in

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was raised in

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. While working as a jockey he was discovered by Eddie Polo and put into films.

Career

At the age of fourteen, Rose doubled Ruth Roland in a serial and then started racing motorcycles and performing high dives. Rose then doubled actors such as Tom Mix, Buck Jones,

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, Fay Wray and

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among others. He performed stunts to a plane off motorcycles, cars, boats and horses and walked on the wings of planes in flight. Rose wrote the script and appeared in the film Lucky Devils that featured the lives of stuntmen. Rose was one of the few stuntmen that didn't die in the rapids of the

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during the filming of The Trail of '98. Rose also worked in King Kong,

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, The Rains Came, Seven Sinners, Saratoga Trunk, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,

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. Rose also appeared on the 1938 radio program Daredevils of Hollywood. Rose was seriously injured in a deadly plane crash with Paul Mantz during The Flight of the Phoenix. Three months later he returned to the set and completed the stunt successfully. Shortly after he doubled Larry Fine on The Outlaws Is Coming. He was one of the founders of the

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and of the Hollywood Stuntman Hall of Fame.

Death

Rose died in a nursing home in Montrose,

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on March 8, 1993. He was buried at Cory Cemetery in

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Filmography

* The Master Mystery (1918) – stunt double of Harry Houdini (uncredited) * The Grim Game (1919) – stunt double of Harry Houdini (uncredited) *

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(1920) – stunt double of Harry Houdini (uncredited) * The Avenging Arrow (1921) – stunt double of Ruth Roland (uncredited) * The Soul of Bronze (1921) – stunt double of Harry Houdini (uncredited) *

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(1922) – stunt double of Harry Houdini (uncredited) *

Ruth of the Range ''Ruth of the Range'' is a fifteen episode American adventure film serial starring Ruth Roland, in which a young woman attempts to rescue her father from a gang that has kidnapped him in order to find out his secret for making "Fuelite," a subst ...

(1923) – Ruth (uncredited) *

Haldane of the Secret Service ''Haldane of the Secret Service'' is a 1923 American silent adventure film directed by Harry Houdini. The film stars Harry Houdini, Gladys Leslie, William J. Humphrey, Richard Carlyle, Edward Boulden, Jane Jennings, and Charles Fang. The film ...

(1923) – stunt of Harry Houdini (uncredited) * The Trail of '98 (1928) – stunt double (uncredited) *

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(1929) – stunts (uncredited) * Lucky Devils (1933) – stunts (uncredited) * King Kong (1933) – stunt double of Fay Wray (uncredited) * Wild Gold (1934) – stunt double (uncredited) * Under the Pampas Moon (1935) – stunts (uncredited) * In Old Kentucky (1935) – Jockey (uncredited) *

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(1935) – stunts (uncredited) * High Tension – stunts (uncredited) * Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937) – stunts (uncredited) *

(1937) – stunts (uncredited) *

(1937) – stunt double of Eddie Cantor (uncredited) * Carefree (1938) – Minor Role (uncredited) *

(1938) – stunts (uncredited) * Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) – stunts (uncredited) *

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(1940) – Freddy (uncredited) * Seven Sinners (1940) – stunts (uncredited) * Hellzapoppin' (1941) – Shorty – Butler (uncredited) *

Footlight Fever ''Footlight Fever'' is a 1941 sequel to the 1940 comedy '' Curtain Call'', with Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride. Plot Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall. This ti ...

(1941) – stunts (uncredited) *

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(1941) – stunt double (uncredited) * Guadalcanal Diary (1943) – Sammy Kline (uncredited) * Fort Apache (1948) – stunts (uncredited) * The Gay Ranchero (1948) – Breezy (as Robert Rose) *

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(1948) – Radio Sergeant (uncredited) * Big Jack (1949) – Little Man (uncredited) * She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) – stunts (uncredited) *

(1950) – stunts (uncredited) * Rogue River (1951) – Carter Laney * Excuse My Dust (1951) – Gaston (uncredited) *

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(1951) – Corley's Servant (uncredited) * A Girl in Every Port (1952) – Saboteur (uncredited) *

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(1952) – Minor Role (uncredited) *

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(1952) – Anniston * The Quiet Man (1952) – stunts (uncredited) * Jalopy (1953) – Jalopy Driver (uncredited) *

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(1953) – Townsman (uncredited) *

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(1953) – stunts (uncredited) *

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(1955) – Boardinghouse Roomer (uncredited) *

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(1955) – stunts (uncredited) * Love Me Tender (1956) – Station Agent (uncredited) *

(1956) – stunts (uncredited) *

(1960) – stunts (uncredited) * The Outlaws Is Coming (1965) – stunt double (Larry Fine, uncredited) *

(1965) – stunts (uncredited) * The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) – stunt double – stunts (Richard Attenborough, uncredited) * Rough Night in Jericho (1967) – Dealer (uncredited) * The Fantastic Seven (1979) – stunts

Television

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– Hi-Jack (1951) TV Episode .... Mr. Rones * The Adventures of Kit Carson – Trouble at Fort Mojave (1953) TV Episode – Powdersmoke Law (1953) TV Episode * Dragnet – The Big Set (1956) TV Episode * The Adventures of Jim Bowie – Pirate on Horseback (1958) TV Episode .... Williams * Have Gun – Will Travel – Full Circle (1960) TV Episode .... Bartender * The Felony Squad – The Killer Instinct (1966) TV Episode .... Fingerprint Expert

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Bob 1901 births 1993 deaths American male film actors American television actors 20th-century American actors American stunt performers