Hollywood stuntman set on fireplace for Pink Floyd cowl dies aged 88

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<img sizes="(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/240/cpsprodpb/e6bb/live/ebc7cc00-7b5d-11f0-90b9-13163fd198bb.jpg.webp 240w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/e6bb/live/ebc7cc00-7b5d-11f0-90b9-13163fd198bb.jpg.webp 320w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/e6bb/live/ebc7cc00-7b5d-11f0-90b9-13163fd198bb.jpg.webp 480w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/640/cpsprodpb/e6bb/live/ebc7cc00-7b5d-11f0-90b9-13163fd198bb.jpg.webp 640w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/e6bb/live/ebc7cc00-7b5d-11f0-90b9-13163fd198bb.jpg.webp 800w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/e6bb/live/ebc7cc00-7b5d-11f0-90b9-13163fd198bb.jpg.webp 1024w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/e6bb/live/ebc7cc00-7b5d-11f0-90b9-13163fd198bb.jpg.webp 1536w" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/e6bb/live/ebc7cc00-7b5d-11f0-90b9-13163fd198bb.jpg.webp" loading="eager" alt="Kevin Winter/Getty Images Stuntman Ronnie Rondell Jr. accepts the Taurus Honoray Lifetime Achievement Award at the 4th Annual Taurus World Stunt Awards at Paramount Pictures May 16, 2004" class="sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj"/> Kevin Winter/Getty Photos Ronnie Rondell's profession spanned greater than 50 years and included dozens of TV and movie credit

Ronnie Rondell Jr - who was famously set alight for the entrance cowl of Pink Floyd's iconic Want You Had been Right here album cowl - has died on the age of 88.

The Hollywood stuntman and actor died on 12 August at a care house within the US state of Missouri, in accordance with a web-based obituary.

Rondell was concerned within the manufacturing of plenty of movies and TV reveals throughout his lengthy profession, together with Deadly Weapon, Thelma and Louise and Star Trek: First Contact.

He's survived by his spouse Mary and his son, who can also be known as Ronald.

Rondell was born in California in 1937 and acquired his first appearing function as an adolescent within the early Nineteen Fifties within the movie Ma and Pa Kettle on the Honest.

His first function as a stuntman was for the TV sequence Troopers of Fortune, which ran from 1955 to 1957.

Between the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Nineties he labored on a number of US TV sequence, together with Charlie's Angels, Dynasty and Baywatch, in addition to films equivalent to Spartacus, Diamonds are Ceaselessly and The Karate Child.

Certainly one of his best-known stunts was leaping from a pole that was on fireplace because it toppled over - a feat he carried out for the 1963 journey movie Kings of the Solar.

He was additionally concerned in preventing scenes within the 1965 movie Shenandoah, which was set throughout the US Civil Conflict, a bar brawl within the 1974 Western comedy Blazing Saddles and spectacular fireplace scenes in The Towering Inferno, which was launched the identical 12 months.

Later in his profession, he labored as a stunt co-ordinator for movies together with Batman and Robin, and The Mighty Geese.

<img sizes="(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/240/cpsprodpb/cf27/live/9edb3430-7b63-11f0-9ae5-8b78450e5cf0.jpg.webp 240w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/cf27/live/9edb3430-7b63-11f0-9ae5-8b78450e5cf0.jpg.webp 320w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/cf27/live/9edb3430-7b63-11f0-9ae5-8b78450e5cf0.jpg.webp 480w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/640/cpsprodpb/cf27/live/9edb3430-7b63-11f0-9ae5-8b78450e5cf0.jpg.webp 640w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/cf27/live/9edb3430-7b63-11f0-9ae5-8b78450e5cf0.jpg.webp 800w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/cf27/live/9edb3430-7b63-11f0-9ae5-8b78450e5cf0.jpg.webp 1024w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/cf27/live/9edb3430-7b63-11f0-9ae5-8b78450e5cf0.jpg.webp 1536w" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/cf27/live/9edb3430-7b63-11f0-9ae5-8b78450e5cf0.jpg.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Rahman Hassani/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Two men wearing suits shake hands - one of them is on fire" class="sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj"/> Rahman Hassani/SOPA Photos/LightRocket by way of Getty Photos Rondell Jr suffered minor burns throughout the picture shoot for the entrance cowl of Pink Floyd's 1975 album Want You Had been Right here

Whereas many won't recognise Rondell's identify, they may have probably seen him set alight for the quilt of Pink Floyd's 1975 album Want You Had been Right here whereas shaking fingers with fellow stuntman Danny Rogers.

Through the shoot, the wind modified route and blew the hearth into his face, inflicting him to lose an eyebrow and a part of his signature moustache.

Rondell began his personal stunts firm, Stunts Limitless, in California in 1970.

He retired in 2001, however earned his last stunt credit score for The Matrix Reloaded in 2003 - participating in a posh automotive chase scene.

Rondell was given a lifetime achievement honour on the Taurus World Stunt Awards in 2004.

He was not the one performer within the household. His father, Ronald R Rondell, was an actor and assistant director - recognized for his work on movies together with the 1956 adaptation of the Jules Verne novel Across the World in 80 Days.

Each of Rondell's sons have additionally labored within the trade, one in every of whom, Reid, died whereas performing a helicopter stunt for the TV sequence Airwolf in 1985.