Needham was a prolific stuntman in the 1950s and has been credited with introducing new safety measures such as air bags to break falls. The former paratrooper appeared in many TV shows and movies as ...

Stuntman and director Hal Needham spoke with a down-home twang but was as Hollywood as air kisses and car chases — and had the scars to prove it. In a career that spanned hundreds of TV episodes and ...

In an interview at Austin's South by Southwest Festival, Burt Reynolds opened up about his most recent film, the documentary The Bandit, as well as one of his biggest (and widely recognized) regrets. ...

Quentin Tarantino’s new film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was inspired by the partnership between actor Burt Reynolds and his stuntman Hal Needham. Tarantino had even cast Reynolds in the film, as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a movie bases characters on real-life people, the film version often ends up just a little more interesting than how they ...

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first glimpse at Jesse Moss’ feature documentary The Bandit, a firsthand look at Burt Reynolds, his best friend/roommate and one of Hollywood’s most famous stuntmen Hal Needham, ...

If you've been a Pontiac fan for any length of time, but in particular, one who fancies Firebirds, you've no doubt screened Smokey and the Bandit. Not only was it the last movie Alfred Hitchcock ...

Winning an honorary Oscar last year was legendary stuntman Hal Needham, the son of Arkansas sharecroppers with eight years of education, a paratrooper who tested parachutes by making over 400 jumps ...

In 1979, Hal Needham, Budweiser and Stan Barrett combined their celebrity, cash and cojones, respectively, to make a supersonic land speed record. The car, the Budweiser Rocket, was no more, or less, ...