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Bob Yerkes Dies: ‘Star Wars’ & ‘Back To The Future’ Stuntman Was 92
According to his mentee Darlene Williams Bostock, stuntman Bob Yerkes died Tuesday morning at his Northridge, California home.
The former acrobat died Tuesday morning at his Northridge, California home, according to a statement shared by his fellow stunt performer Darlene Williams Bostock, who grew up training with Yerkes. “I am horribly sad to hear that my mentor and stunt coach Bob Yerkes passed away this morning in Northridge, California,” announced Bostock in a Facebook post. Yerkes went on to double for such actors as Paul Newman, Robert Duval and Arnold Schwarzenegger, performing in movies like Airport(1970), Earthquake(1974), The Towering Inferno(1974), Return of the Jedi(1983), Ghostbusters(1984), Back to the Future(1985), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off(1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit(1988), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids(1989), Hook(1991), Batman Forever(1995) and Poseidon(2006).
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