Paul Stader was an American actor, assistant director and stuntman.
10 Facts About Paul Stader
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Paul Stader attended at the University of Kansas, where he played football and practiced swimming.
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Paul Stader then was a lifeguard in Santa Monica, California.
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Paul Stader began his film career in 1937, when he appeared in the film The Hurricane, doing 70-foot, 97-foot and 100-foot highdives.
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Paul Stader doubled for actor Kirk Alyn in the 1948 serial film Superman.
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Paul Stader doubled for actors on numerous films including Our Man Flint, The Missouri Traveler, Demetrius and the Gladiators, The Great Waldo Pepper, The Towering Inferno, Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl, Revolt in the Big House, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, Last of the Badmen, Blazing Saddles, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Valley of Head Hunters, Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land and Our Man Flint.
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Paul Stader said that his favorite stunt was in the film Markow, in which he doubled for actor Robert Mitchum, and fell from a roof and had his fall broken by an awning.
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Paul Stader appeared in westerns, including The Virginian, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Wagon Train and Tales of Wells Fargo, among others, and doubled for actor John Wayne.
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On television, Paul Stader doubled for actor Lloyd Bridges in the action adventure television series Sea Hunt from 1958 to 1961.
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Paul Stader died in April 1991 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 80.