Robert Craig Knievel, known professionally as Evel Knievel, was an American stunt performer and entertainer. Throughout his career, he attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps. Knievel was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999. He died of pulmonary disease in Clearwater, Florida, in 2007, aged 69.
Knievel c. 1974
Knievel prepares for the Snake River Canyon jump
Knievel's Skycycle X-2 and canvas jumpsuit on display at the Harley-Davidson Museum in September 2010
Knievel after the Snake River Canyon jump
A stunt performer, often called a stuntman or stuntwoman and occasionally stuntperson or stunt-person, is a trained professional who performs daring acts, often as a career. Stunt performers usually appear in films or on television, as opposed to a daredevil, who performs for a live audience. When they take the place of another actor, they are known as stunt doubles.
Pyrotechnics stunt exhibition by "Giant Auto Rodéo" in Ciney, Belgium
Circus performers doing an automobile stunt in Delorimier Stadium, Montreal, Canada, in 1946
Harold Lloyd in 1923's Safety Last!, hanging (safely) from the clock tower. Lloyd may have been influenced by the real life stunts of Rodman Law a decade earlier.
