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Hal Needham

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Filmmaker

The Resume

    (March 6, 1931-October 25, 2013)
    Born in Memphis, Tennessee
    Frequent stunt double for Burt Reynolds and Clint Walker
    Directed 'Smokey and the Bandit' (1977), 'Hooper' (1978), 'Smokey and the Bandit II' (1980), 'The Cannonball Run' (1981), 'Megaforce' (1982), 'Stroker Ace' (1983), 'Cannonball Run II' (1984), 'Rad' (1986) and 'Body Slam' (1987)
    Co-owner of NASCAR's Skoal Bandit race team
    Wrote 'Stuntman! My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life' (2011)
    Received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Taurus World Stunt Awards (2001)

Why he might be annoying:

    He was a billboard model for Viceroy Cigarettes.
    'Cannonball Run' was based on his participation in an actual illegal coast-to-coast race.
    He was nominated for three Golden Razzies as worst director.
    He was married three times and divorced twice.
    He spent the 70s living in the pool house on Burt Reynolds' estate and said of that period, 'I hated to go home except three sheets to the wind at two o'clock in the morning.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was a paratrooper during the Korean War.
    He broke 56 bones during his career as a stuntman.
    He introduced airbags to stunt work after seeing one being used at a college pole vaulting match.
    He won an Oscar and an Emmy for developing the Shotmaker Elite camera car and crane.
    He summed up his directing career by taking out a trade ad placing quotes from negative reviews of his movies around a picture of a wheelbarrow full of money.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 9 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 11 Votes: 27.27% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 35.29% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 74 Votes: 66.22% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 25.00% Annoying