Hal Needham
Born: 1931-03-06 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Died: 2013-10-25
Known For: Acting
Biography
Hal Brett Needham (March 6, 1931 – October 25, 2013) was an American stuntman, film director, actor and writer. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with actor Burt Reynolds, usually in films involving fast cars, such as Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Hooper (1978), The Cannonball Run (1981) and Stroker Ace (1983). In his later years, Needham moved out of stunt work, and focused his energy on the World land speed record project. In 2001, Needham received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Taurus World Stunt Awards, and in 2012, he was awarded a Governors Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hal Needham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
2025
- A RAD Documentary as Self
2016
- The Bandit as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Hard Time: Hostage Hotel ... (Director)
1996
- The Sunchaser ... (Stunts)
- Jackie Chan - From Stuntman to Superstar as Self
1995
- Cybill as Hal Needham
1994
- Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel ... (Director)
- Bandit: Bandit, Bandit ... (Executive Producer)
- Bandit: Beauty and the Bandit ... (Characters)
- Bandit: Bandit Goes Country ... (Characters)
- Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular as Self
1989
- B.L. Stryker ... (Director)
1987
1984
- Cannonball Run II as Porsche 928 Driver with Cowboy Hat (uncredited)
1983
- Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 ... (Characters)
- Stroker Ace as Man Punching Stroker Into Ladies Room
1982
- MegaForce as Technician (uncredited)
1981
- The Cannonball Run as Ambulance EMT (uncredited)
1980
- Smokey and the Bandit II ... (Director)
- Stunts Unlimited as H.N. (uncredited)
1979
- The Villain ... (Director)
- Death Car on the Freeway as Mr. Blanchard
1978
- Hooper ... (Director)
- Foul Play ... (Stunts)
- The End ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Greatest Stuntman Alive as Himself
1977
- Smokey and the Bandit ... (Director)
- Superstunt as Self
- Billy Jack Goes to Washington ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Julio
- Nickelodeon ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Gator ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- A Star Is Born ... (Stunts)
- Jackson County Jail as Chief of Fallsburg Police
- Gable and Lombard ... (Stunts)
1975
- Lucky Lady ... (Stunts)
- French Connection II as Doyle Kidnapper (uncredited)
- Take a Hard Ride as Garmes (uncredited)
- Peeper ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings as Trooper Carson
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Blazing Saddles as Outlaw (uncredited)
- Chinatown ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Longest Yard ... (Second Unit Director)
- McQ as Santiago Henchman (uncredited)
- Busting ... (Stunts)
- Three the Hard Way ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1973
- White Lightning ... (Second Unit Director)
- The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Call to Danger as Connors
1972
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ... (Stunts)
- Hardcase ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Culpepper Cattle Co. as Burgess
- Goodnight, My Love ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Bounty Man as Pike
- The Heist ... (Stunts)
1971
- Alias Smith and Jones
- The French Connection ... (Stunts)
- The Organization ... (Stunts)
- Something Big ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Sometimes a Great Notion as Man at Racetrack
- One More Train to Rob as Bert Gant
- Chrome and Hot Leather ... (Stunts)
1970
- Chisum ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Rio Lobo ... (Stunts)
- C.C. and Company ... (Stunts)
- Dirty Dingus Magee ... (Stunts)
- The Animals ... (Stunts)
- Angel Unchained ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1969
- The Undefeated as Yankee Corporal at River Crossing (uncredited)
- The Bridge at Remagen ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Great Bank Robbery ... (Stunts)
1968
- Bandolero! ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Hellfighters ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Devil's Brigade as The Sergeant
- The Ballad of Josie ... (Stunts)
1967
- Mannix
- Ironside as Officer Connell
- Cimarron Strip
- The War Wagon as Hite
- The Way West ... (Stunts)
- Camelot ... (Stunts)
- Tobruk ... (Stunts)
- Hells Angels on Wheels ... (Stunts)
1966
- Alvarez Kelly ... (Stunts)
- The Rare Breed ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Our Man Flint ... (Stunts)
- Beau Geste ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1965
- The Wild Wild West as Henchman (uncredited)
- Laredo
- The Great Race as Saloon Brawler (uncredited)
- In Harm's Way as Airman in the Blue Lagoon (uncredited)
- The War Lord ... (Stunts)
- Major Dundee ... (Stunts)
- Shenandoah ... (Stunts)
1964
- Mail Order Bride ... (Stunts)
- Advance to the Rear as Rebel Soldier (uncredited)
1963
- The Great Adventure as Recruiting Officer
- McLintock! as Carter (uncredited)
- Donovan's Reef ... (Stunts)
- 4 for Texas as Thomas Worker (uncredited)
- Kings of the Sun ... (Stunts)
- Wall of Noise ... (Stunts)
- The Raiders ... (Stunts)
1962
- The Virginian as The Man
- Stoney Burke
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ... (Stunts)
- How the West Was Won ... (Stunts)
- Shootout at Big Sag as Saloon Brawler (uncredited)
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- A Thunder of Drums ... (Stunt Double)
1960
- Coronado 9
- Guns of the Timberland as Townsman (uncredited)
1959
- The Rebel as Indian
- Rawhide as Corporal Williams
- Thunder in the Sun ... (Stunts)
- Paratroop Command as German (uncredited)
1958
- Yancy Derringer as Judge Randall's guard (uncredited)
- The Big Country ... (Stunts)
- The Fiend Who Walked the West as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
1957
- Wagon Train as Saloon Tough (uncredited)
- Tales of Wells Fargo as Townsman (uncredited)
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Harry Beldon
- Zorro as Don (uncredited)
- The Spirit of St. Louis ... (Stunts)
1955
- Gunsmoke as Ed