Bob Herron
Born: 1924-09-23 in Lomita, California, USA
Died: 2021-10-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
Stuntman and actor Bob Herron was born on September 23, 1924 in Lomita, California. Herron grew up with his father in Hawaii. After his parents divorced, Bob's mother remained in California and married Ace Hudkins, who was a famous supplier of horses for movies. Following service in the Navy in the South Pacific, Herron started wrangling horses on movie sets for his stepfather Hudkins in 1946. Bob made the transition to stuntman in 1950 and went on to perform stunts in a slew of films and television shows in a career that spanned from the 1950's to the early 2010's.
Filmography
2011
- Love's Christmas Journey ... (Stunt Double)
2005
- Be Cool ... (Stunts)
2003
- Reno 911! as Bob Herron, Prisoner Unjustly Accused
- The Long Ride Home ... (Stunt Double)
2002
2000
- Bedazzled ... (Stunts)
1998
- Small Soldiers ... (Stunts)
- BASEketball ... (Stunts)
- Second Chances ... (Stunts)
1997
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer ... (Stunts)
- L.A. Confidential ... (Stunts)
- Liar Liar ... (Stunts)
- MouseHunt ... (Stunts)
- Buddy ... (Utility Stunts)
- Retroactive ... (Stunt Double)
- Leave It to Beaver ... (Stunts)
1995
- Batman Forever ... (Stunt Double)
1994
- True Lies ... (Stunts)
1992
- Batman Returns ... (Stunt Double)
- Sneakers ... (Stunts)
- Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot ... (Stunts)
1991
- Child's Play 3 ... (Stunts)
1990
- Dick Tracy ... (Stunt Double)
- Dark Angel ... (Stunts)
- Another 48 Hrs. ... (Stunts)
1989
- Tales from the Crypt ... (Stunts)
- Pet Sematary ... (Stunts)
- Grave Secrets as Kurt Norwood
1988
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! as Dr. Alford (uncredited)
- Red Heat ... (Stunts)
- Betrayed as Bank Guard
- The Seventh Sign as Jimmy's Guard
- Messenger of Death ... (Stunts)
1987
- Dragnet ... (Stunts)
- No Man's Land ... (Stunts)
- Prince of Darkness ... (Stunts)
1986
- Howard the Duck ... (Stunts)
- ¡Three Amigos! ... (Stunts)
- 52 Pick-Up ... (Stunts)
- Thrashin' ... (Stunts)
- Annihilator ... (Stunts)
1985
- The Goonies ... (Stunts)
- Pale Rider ... (Stunts)
- Weird Science ... (Stunts)
- Explorers ... (Stunts)
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure ... (Stunts)
1984
- Airwolf ... (Stunt Double)
- Frankenweenie ... (Stunts)
1983
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King as Sarge (uncredited)
- Cujo ... (Stunt Double)
1982
- Poltergeist ... (Stunts)
- The Sword and the Sorcerer ... (Stunts)
- The Toy ... (Stunt Double)
- Hysterical ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1980
- Any Which Way You Can ... (Stunts)
- The Nude Bomb ... (Stunts)
- Melvin and Howard ... (Stunts)
1979
- 1941 ... (Stunts)
- The Black Hole ... (Stunt Double)
- The Frisco Kid ... (Stunts)
- Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers as Nick
- The Fantastic Seven ... (Stunts)
1978
- Convoy ... (Stunts)
- California Suite ... (Stunts)
- Movie Movie as Hood #2 / Mover #1
- The Fifth Floor as Sheriff
1977
- Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo ... (Stunts)
- Mr. Billion as Moose - Bodyguard
- Rollercoaster ... (Stunts)
- The Domino Principle as Brookshire
- Superstunt as Self
- Local Color as Fred
1976
- Rocky ... (Stunts)
- Obsession ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Enforcer ... (Stunts)
- Silver Streak ... (Stunts)
- Swashbuckler ... (Stunts)
- No Deposit, No Return ... (Stunts)
1975
- Death Race 2000 ... (Stunts)
- Breakout ... (Stunts)
- Hearts of the West ... (Stunts)
- The Last Survivors ... (Stunts)
1974
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Bandit
- Blazing Saddles ... (Stunts)
- Earthquake ... (Stunts)
- 99 and 44/100% Dead ... (Stunts)
- The Bank Shot as Bank Guard (uncredited)
- Uptown Saturday Night ... (Stunts)
- Black Samson ... (Stunts)
1973
- The Magician as Scuba Diver
- American Graffiti ... (Stunts)
- Soylent Green ... (Stunts)
- Dillinger ... (Stunts)
- The Don Is Dead ... (Stunts)
- Cleopatra Jones ... (Stunts)
- Oklahoma Crude as Dulling
1972
- Joe Kidd ... (Stunts)
- Prime Cut ... (Stunts)
- Kung Fu as Second Tough
- The Groundstar Conspiracy ... (Stunts)
1971
- Diamonds Are Forever ... (Stunts)
- Bearcats! as Paul
- Shaft ... (Stunts)
- $ as Bodyguard
- Raid on Rommel ... (Stunts)
- The Feminist and the Fuzz ... (Stunts)
- The Steagle ... (Stunts)
1970
- There Was a Crooked Man... as Oran
- They Call Me Mister Tibbs! ... (Stunts)
- Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? ... (Stunts)
- The Grasshopper ... (Stunts)
- Zig Zag ... (Stunts)
1969
- The Wild Bunch ... (Stunt Double)
- Mackenna's Gold ... (Stunts)
- Paint Your Wagon ... (Stunts)
- The Over the Hill Gang as Lafe Jordan
- A Time for Dying as Rankin
- The Silent Gun ... (Stunts)
1968
- Ice Station Zebra ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Speedway ... (Stunts)
- Journey to Shiloh ... (Stunts)
- In Enemy Country ... (Stunts)
- With Six You Get Eggroll ... (Stunts)
1967
- Mannix as Thug #2 (uncredited)
- The Invaders ... (Stunts)
- In Like Flint ... (Stunts)
- Tobruk ... (Stunts)
- Chuka ... (Stunt Double)
- Rough Night in Jericho ... (Stunts)
- Counterpoint ... (Stunts)
- Hot Rods to Hell ... (Stunts)
1966
- Star Trek as Kahless
- It's About Time as Doctor
- The Chase ... (Stunts)
- Harper ... (Stunts)
- The Rare Breed ... (Stunts)
- The Silencers ... (Stunts)
- What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? ... (Stunts)
- The Appaloosa ... (Stunts)
- An American Dream ... (Stunts)
- Beau Geste ... (Stunts)
- Not With My Wife, You Don't! ... (Stunts)
1965
- The Wild Wild West as Captain Jackson (uncredited)
- The Great Race as Palace Guard (uncredited)
- Shenandoah ... (Stunts)
- Cat Ballou ... (Stunts)
- In Harm's Way ... (Stunts)
- Major Dundee ... (Stunts)
- The Cincinnati Kid ... (Stunts)
- Morituri ... (Stunts)
- Ship of Fools ... (Stunts)
- The War Lord ... (Stunts)
- Girl Happy ... (Stunts)
- Star Trek: The Cage ... (Stunt Double)
- Love Has Many Faces ... (Stunt Double)
- My Blood Runs Cold ... (Stunts)
- The Sword of Ali Baba ... (Stunts)
1964
- Sex and the Single Girl ... (Stunts)
- A Distant Trumpet ... (Stunts)
- Bullet for a Badman ... (Stunts)
- Kisses for My President ... (Stunts)
1963
- Temple Houston
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ... (Stunts)
- Kings of the Sun ... (Stunts)
- PT 109 ... (Stunts)
- Gunfight at Comanche Creek ... (Stunts)
- The Slime People as Slime Person (uncredited)
1962
- Taras Bulba ... (Stunt Double)
- Lonely are the Brave ... (Stunts)
- The Spiral Road ... (Stunts)
- Escape from Zahrain ... (Stunts)
- 40 Pounds of Trouble ... (Stunts)
- The Chapman Report ... (Stunts)
1961
- The Absent-Minded Professor ... (Stunts)
- Man-Trap ... (Stunts)
- Francis of Assisi ... (Stunts)
- Portrait of a Mobster ... (Stunts)
- Love in a Goldfish Bowl ... (Stunts)
1960
- Spartacus ... (Stunts)
- The Unforgiven ... (Stunts)
- Elmer Gantry ... (Stunts)
- Who Was That Lady? ... (Stunts)
- Seven Ways from Sundown
- The Great Impostor as Highway Patrol Officer (uncredited)
- The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond as Thug (uncredited)
- Ice Palace ... (Stunts)
1959
- Rio Bravo ... (Stunts)
- The FBI Story ... (Stunts)
- Westbound as Henchman (uncredited)
- Cry Tough ... (Stunts)
1958
- Auntie Mame ... (Stunts)
- Ride a Crooked Trail ... (Stunts)
- The Deep Six ... (Stunts)
- Darby's Rangers ... (Stunts)
- The Perfect Furlough ... (Stunt Double)
1957
- The Big Land ... (Stunts)
- Utah Blaine ... (Stunts)
- Man Afraid as Frankie Simmons - Burglar (uncredited)
- The Monolith Monsters ... (Stunts)
1956
- The Ten Commandments as Courier (uncredited)
- The Mole People
- Santiago ... (Stunts)
- Walk the Proud Land ... (Stunts)
- The Vagabond King ... (Stunts)
- Come Next Spring ... (Stunts)
1955
- Gunsmoke as Vern
- The Court Jester ... (Stunts)
- To Hell and Back ... (Stunts)
- Lady Godiva of Coventry ... (Stunts)
- The Far Horizons ... (Stunts)
- The Man from Bitter Ridge as Jim Hanley (uncredited)
1954
- River of No Return ... (Stunts)
- Four Guns to the Border as Evans
- Saskatchewan as Brill
- Destry ... (Stunts)
- The Boy from Oklahoma ... (Stunts)
1953
- The Man from the Alamo as (uncredited)
- Gun Fury as Curly Jordan
- The Charge at Feather River ... (Stunts)
- Column South ... (Stunts)
- War Arrow ... (Stunts)
- Serpent of the Nile ... (Stunts)
- Champ for a Day ... (Stunts)
1952
- The Sniper ... (Stunts)
- The Red Ball Express ... (Stunts)
- The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima ... (Stunts)
- Yankee Buccaneer ... (Stunts)
- The Story of Will Rogers ... (Stunts)
- Operation Secret ... (Stunt Double)
1951
- Only the Valiant ... (Stunts)
- The Red Badge of Courage ... (Stunts)
- Along the Great Divide ... (Stunts)
- Ten Tall Men ... (Stunts)
- Raton Pass ... (Stunts)
- The Golden Horde ... (Stunts)
1950
- Winchester '73 ... (Stunts)
- The Flame and the Arrow ... (Stunts)
- Rocky Mountain ... (Stunts)