Ronnie was additionally well-known for a Pink Floyd album cowl
Hollywood stuntman Ronnie Rondell Jr – who was photographed for the entrance cowl of Pink Floyd’s Want You Have been Right here album cowl after being set alight – has died on the age of 88.
Ronnie died at a care residence within the US state of Missouri. The stuntman had been concerned in among the greatest movies and TV sequence of the final 70 years – together with Deadly Weapon, Thelma and Louise, Star Trek: First Contact, Charlie’s Angels, Dynasty, Baywatch, Spartacus, Diamonds are Ceaselessly, Blazing Saddles, Towering Inferno and The Karate Child
Ronnie was born in California in 1937 and began appearing within the Fifties, he was a stuntman within the 50s TV present Troopers of Fortune. He went on to develop into a stunt co-ordinator, engaged on movies similar to Batman and Robin.
Many will recognise Ronnie because the stuntman who was set alight for the duvet of Pink Floyd’s 1975 album Want You Have been Right here. He worse a wuit and wig coated in flame-retardant gel however nonetheless suffered minor burns – dropping some facial hair.
Ronnie was one of many founders of stunts firm Stunts Limitless in California in 1970. In a publish on social media, Stunts Limitless wrote: “In a category all his personal, Ronnie was a beneficiant mentor whose skills set the bar for each aspiring stunt particular person.
“He was deeply revered, admired and beloved. Ronnie was not only a legend, he was legendary and will probably be deeply missed.”
Ronnie retired in 2001 however accomplished one remaining scene, a automotive chase in The Matric Reloaded in 2003 and was given a lifetime achievement award on the Taurus World Stunt Awards in 2004.
Ronnie’s son Reid died whereas performing a helicopter stunt for the TV sequence Airwolf in 1985.
