Harry Woolman
Actor, Film crewmember
1909 – 1996
Who was Harry Woolman?
Harry Simon Woolman was a race-circuit, film, and TV stuntman, specializing in motorcycle jumps, car crashes, and pyrotechnics, from the 1930s through the early 1960s. From the 1960s until his retirement in the mid-1980s, he designed mechanical special effects for films and television. He also acted in bit parts over this span.
Woolman was born and raised in rural Elkton, Maryland, the "Marriage Capital" of the East Coast, where elopers would run from neighboring States for a no-wait wedding. An aspiring motorcycle daredevil, he would ride his cycle backwards or standing on his head, at the outskirts of town attracting the matrimony-bound to stop and ask for directions, when he would offer to guide them to one of the 24-hour chapels for tips. One of these clients was a Hollywood producer down from New York City who invited Woolman look him up for a job if he was ever in California.
Woolman was a long-time Hollywood stuntman and special effects innovator, doubling for such notables as Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, William Bendix, and John Carradine. He also appeared in occasional roles such as the motorcycle police officer in the Abbott & Costello comedy, The Time of Their Lives.
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- Born
- Apr 10, 1909
Elkton - Also known as
- Harry Simon Woolman
- Hedgie
- Dynamite Harry
- Harry Wohlman
- Harry Wollman
- Harry Wollmen
- Harry Wolman
- Harry S. Woolman
- Spouses
- Pauline Frances Boulden
(1936/02/05 - ) - Alma M. Pappas
( - 1996/10/27)
- Pauline Frances Boulden
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Oct 27, 1996
Bellingham
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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