Gary McLarty
Gary McLarty (January 16, 1941 – October 11, 2014) was an American stunt performer and stunt coordinator for film and television. His abilities earned him the nickname "Whiz Kid" in Hollywood. McLarty performed stunts in over 150 films between 1966 and 2004, among them The Wild Bunch, Little Big Man, The Longest Yard, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Jurassic Park, Heat, and Collateral. He was in the helicopter, as a stunt coordinator, when actor Vic Morrow and two children died in an accident on a "Twilight Zone" movie set. In the subsequent trial, McLarty testified that, prior to the accident, he had warned director John Landis that the stunt was too dangerous. In 1991 McLarty shot and killed his roommate. McLarty was cleared of all charges when the Deputy District Attorney determined that it was a clear case of justifiable homicide. On the Friday before as part of a bizarre series of events another man had been fatally shot by Sheriff's deputies at McLarty's Lake View Terrace ranch. McLarty's house also caught on fire and burned down during the same incident. McLarty semi-retired from stunt work in 2004. The following year, he testified at the murder trial of actor Robert Blake, testifying that Blake offered him $10,000 to murder Blake's wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley; McLarty declined. Bakley was fatally shot in Blake's car outside a restaurant in May 2001. Blake was thought by most to be the actual murderer, but was acquitted in a 2005 criminal trial. McLarty died on October 11, 2014 when a pickup truck driven by fellow stuntman Bob Orrison making a U-turn was broadsided by a Jeep Cherokee in Rancho Cordova, California, USA. Both stuntmen were killed instantly. The two persons in the Jeep Cherokee were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
Filmography (95)
Collateral
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Hollywood Homicide
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Enemy of the State
Lethal Weapon 4
The Siege
Batman & Robin
From Dusk Till Dawn
The Phantom
Executive Decision
The Sunchaser
Waterworld
Clueless
Showgirls
Heat
Jade
Double Dragon
Wyatt Earp
The Puppet Masters
Jurassic Park
Demolition Man
Gettysburg
Falling Down
Last Action Hero
Warlock: The Armageddon
Nowhere to Run
Father Hood
976-EVIL II
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Patriot Games
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Hook
Life Stinks
Stone Cold
Hard to Kill
Ghost
Ghost Dad
Another 48 Hrs.
Days of Thunder
Captain America
Catchfire
Desperate Hours
Miami Blues
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Road House
Lethal Weapon 2
Tango & Cash
Rambo III
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
The Seventh Sign
Beverly Hills Cop II
Over the Top
Less Than Zero
Maximum Overdrive
Big Trouble in Little China
Cobra
F/X
Commando
To Live and Die in L.A.
Warning Sign
Into the Night
The Terminator
Beverly Hills Cop
Police Academy
A Breed Apart
Scarface
The Man with Two Brains
Blue Thunder
Cannery Row
Blade Runner
The Entity
...All the Marbles
S.O.B.
The Blues Brothers
When Time Ran Out...
1941
Hooper
Animal House
Convoy
A Boy and His Dog
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
The Longest Yard
McQ
The Front Page
The Stone Killer
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Little Big Man
Chisum
The Wild Bunch
The Bridge at Remagen
Bandolero!
Hellfighters
The Way West
