Dick Barrymore (October 21, 1933 in Los Angeles – August 1, 2008 in Ketchum, Idaho) was an American
ski film
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maker of the 1960s and 1970s and an advocate of "hot dogging" (early
freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, Mogul Skiing, moguls, Ski Cross, cross, Half-pipe skiing, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics. It can consist of a ...
).
Films
* ''Ski West, Young Man'' (1960)
* ''High Skis'' (1961)
* ''Some Like It Cold'' (1962)
* ''The White Search'' (1963)
* ''Winter Spell'' (1965)
* ''A Cool Breath of Fresh Air'' (1966)
* ''The Secret Race'' (1966)
* ''Last of the Ski Bums'' (1967)
* ''The Tenth Winter'' (1968)
* ''The Spider and the Frenchman'' (1969)
* ''Once in a Lifetime'' (1970)
* ''Here Come the K2 Skiers'' (1970)
* ''The Performers'' (1972) short
* ''Winter Heat'' (1973) short
* ''Day of Greatness'' (1974)
* ''Mountain High'' (1974)
* ''Assignment K2'' (1975)
* ''White Horizons'' (1975)
* ''Blazing Skis'' (1976)
* ''High Cost of a Free Ride'' (1977)
* ''Wild Skis'' (1978)
* ''Vagabond Skiers'' (1979)
* ''Heli-Skiing'' (1979) short
* ''20 Years of Skiing'' (1980)
* ''A Bit of Madness'' (1981) short
* ''Canadian Mountain Odyssey'' (1981) short
* ''Scandinavian Ski Safari'' (1987) short
* ''The Golden Years of Ski Films'' (1997)
Books
* Memoir.
See also
*
Wet T-shirt contest
A wet T-shirt contest is a competition involving exhibitionism, typically featuring young women contestants at a nightclub, bar, or resort. Wet T-shirt contestants generally wear white or light-colored T-shirts without bras, bikini tops, or ot ...
—Barrymore held the first
References
*Lund, Morten (Nov 1969
"Dick Barrymore, we ask you--are you making it?"''Ski'' Vol. 34, No. 3:150-8
*Richey, Edward (2006
''Living it Up in Aspen'' pg 126
"Sun Valley in the '70s"''The Ski Journal'' vol 6 #3 ISSN 1935-3219
External links
Obituary*
* CM
''Heli-Skiing''title sequence on
YouTube
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Hot doggingan
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1933 births
2008 deaths
American documentary filmmakers
American male freestyle skiers
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