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.
A stunt is an unusual, difficult, dramatic physical feat that may require a special skill, performed for artistic purposes usually for a public audience, as on television or in theaters or cinema. Stunts are a feature of many action films. Before computer-generated imagery special effects, these depictions were limited to the use of models, false perspective and other in-camera effects, unless the creator could find someone willing to carry them out, even such dangerous acts as jumping from car to car in motion or hanging from the edge of a skyscraper: the stunt performer or stunt double.
Pyrotechnics stunt exhibition by "Giant Auto Rodéo", Ciney, Belgium
Freestyle & Stunt Show 2007 in Landrévarzec, France
On 1 June 1919, Ormer Locklear waited on one biplane for a second one trailing a rope ladder.
Two motorbikes jump a car at a country fair, England