Carey Loftin is considered to be one of the film industry's most accomplished stunt drivers.
21 Facts About Carey Loftin
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Carey Loftin was posthumously inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Carey Loftin attended high school in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and began his stunt career at the age of 19 as a member of a traveling motorcycle stunt show in the early 1930s.
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Carey Loftin was being hired by film studios for his talent as a motorcycle stunt rider but, became invaluable for his mechanical expertise on film sets.
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Carey Loftin's stunt driving in the 1958 film Thunder Road was considered groundbreaking for its realism.
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Carey Loftin had an uncredited stunt driver role in the seminal 1966 auto racing film Grand Prix.
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Carey Loftin served as the uncredited stunt coordinator for the 1968 film Bullitt, which included one of the most influential car chase scenes in film history.
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Carey Loftin was one of the stuntmen driving the green Ford Mustang during the chase scene filmed on the streets of San Francisco.
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Carey Loftin was involved in the filming of the car chase scene in the 1971 film The French Connection, which is considered one of the most impressive car chases in film history.
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Carey Loftin mentioned that the hardest stunt to do during his whole career was during the final scene in White Line Fever driving the main character truck, for which he was the only hired stuntman.
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Carey Loftin acted as a truck driver in Stroker Ace in which his face is never seen as in Duel, but not as a villain this time.
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Carey Loftin did act as a kind of villainous car driver in Christine and similarly, as a faceless truck driver in Maximum Overdrive, both in which films the machinery comes to life as evil.
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Carey Loftin did some acting, stunt work, and driving scenes in Christine, along with Terry Leonard.
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Carey Loftin did much of the stunt work and driving scenes in Maximum Overdrive, being the sole driver of the red trash truck marked "Zeke's Trash Removal" and one of two stunt drivers, along with Tommy J Huff, of the lead character Green Goblin truck.
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Carey Loftin was the driver of the black 1982 Ferrari 308 GTS.
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At first Hackford was reluctant to hire the aging stuntman, but stunt coordinator Gary Davis convinced Hackford that, even at his age, Carey Loftin was by far the best car man in the business at that time.
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Carey Loftin has previously mentioned that the hardest vehicle to drive during his whole career was a 1974 Autocar A64B seen in Maximum Overdrive.
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Carey Loftin eventually semi-retired in 1991 at age 77 after doing Pink Lightning, although he still took minor stunt roles as a truck driver.
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Carey Loftin died after the movie was filmed and before the movie premiered.
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Carey Loftin died of natural causes on March 4,1997, in Huntington Beach, California, aged 83.
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Carey Loftin is a member of the Stuntmen's Hall of Fame, and the Motorcycle Hall of Fame.