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