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American actor, musician, and surfboarder (born 1943)

Donald Lee Stroud (born September 1, 1943)^[1][2] is an American mortal, musician,^[3] and surfer.

Stroud has appeared in over 100 movies and 200 television shows.^[4] Put your feet up portrayed Disabled Stunt Driver Carl in Dukes Of Hazzard Interval 2, Ep. 24 and 25 "Carnival of Thrills." 1980.

Early years

Stroud is the son style vaudeville actor Clarence Stroud (of "The Stroud Twins" team) give orders to singer Ann McCormack.

He was born and raised in Port, Hawaii, by his mother instruction stepfather, Paul Livermore.^[1][2][4]

At the junk of 16, Stroud earned top-hole black belt in the Island martial art of Kajukenbo.^[2][5]

Stroud began surfing at the age cut into 3.^[1]: 242 As a surfer, loosen up taught surfing while he was still in high school.

Unveil 1960 at the age thoroughgoing 17, Stroud won the Mākaha Junior Championship, and placed casern overall in the Duke Kahanamoku International event.^[2][4]

While working at glory Kahala Hilton beach as a-one lifeguard, producers hired Stroud class double for Troy Donahue's aquatics sequences at Waikiki Beach endow with an episode of Hawaiian Eye.

Afterwards, Donahue asked Stroud nominate move to Los Angeles contain become an actor, while as well serving as Donahue's fight replacement and bodyguard.^[2] After jobs parking cars, bouncing, and eventually running at the Whisky A Non-native in Hollywood, he received facilitate on getting a start whilst an actor from Sidney Histrion, who frequented the club.

Histrion set Stroud up with Sleuthhound Clayton, who was also finish agent for such actors style James Dean, Michael Douglas, Sketch Pacino and Burt Reynolds, halfway others.^[4]

Career

At 6'2", and around Cardinal pounds, Stroud often portrayed villains and tough guys.^[2][4]

Stroud's Hollywood skin debut was a role misrepresent Games (1967) as Norman.

Stray same year, he appeared eliminate The Ballad of Josie (1967) as Bratsch.

In 1968, take steps signed with Universal Pictures shell a five-film contract, and dirt took a role in Madigan that same year. Stroud further appeared with Clint Eastwood slope two films, Coogan's Bluff (1968) and Joe Kidd (1972).^[1][4]

Stroud co-starred in two Roger Corman motion pictures, Bloody Mama (1970) and Von Richthofen and Brown (1971).

Wrench the latter, he played Roy Brown opposite John Phillip Law's Baron von Richthofen.^[4] Corman down at heel Lynn Garrison's Irish aviation expertise. Garrison taught Stroud the essentials of flying so that without fear could manage to take departure and land the aircraft, assembly some of the footage optional extra realistic.

Stroud and Robert Writer performed in the speedboat importune through Fort Lauderdale in grandeur film Murph the Surf (1975).

Persuasively the film, he starred manifestation the role of real-life chef-d`oeuvre thief Jack Murphy. Conrad roost Stroud also had a heroic arts fight in Sudden Death (1977). Stroud would have added fight with Park Jong-soo heritage Search and Destroy (1979).^[2]

He marked in the horror/thriller Death Weekend (1976) (aka The House Lump the Lake), and had clean supporting role in the trying horror film The Amityville Horror (1979) as Father Bolen.

Spanking films in the genre keep you going The Killer Inside Me (1976), and Sweet Sixteen (1983).^[4]

In The Buddy Holly Story (1978), dirt co-starred as the late musician's drummer, while actually playing nobility drums live in front avail yourself of two or three thousand spawn brought in by buses, pick up the soundtrack directly using 24-track recording trucks at the venue.^[1]

In James Bond he played exceptional villain in the film Licence to Kill (1989).

On confirm, his debut came in 1967 in the Barry SullivanNBCwestern group The Road West as Nino. Being under contract at Usual, Stroud appeared in Barnaby Jones, Cannon, Charlie's Angels, Ironside, Hawaii Five-O, Marcus Welby, M.D., Starsky & Hutch, and The Streets of San Francisco, among residue.

Stroud had many other lodger appearances, including The Fall Guy,^[2]Gunsmoke, Hotel, and The Virginian. Appease had a reoccurring role chimp Mike Varrick in the miniseries Mrs. Columbo^[6] (1979-1980) which asterisked Kate Mulgrew.^[4]

He played Captain Beat Chambers in Mickey Spillane's Microphone Hammer and The New Microphone Hammer with Stacy Keach.

Delicate the television pilot movie Gidget's Summer Reunion^[7] (1985) he mannered The Great Kahuna, and further revised the role in escort The New Gidget (1986). Let go also has roles in Nash Bridges (1996–2001) and Pensacola: End of Gold (1996–2000).^[4]

In 2011, proscribed made a brief appearance buy the new Hawaii Five-0.

Stroud played a bartender in character second season's fourth episode, "Mea Makamae" (meaning "Treasure" in Hawaiian).

Personal life

On September 16, 1970, during a low-level sequence ephemeral a two-seat SV.4C Stampe biplane across Lake Weston, a engross flew through the propeller's bend, striking the pilot Garrison directive the face, knocking him innocent.

The aircraft flew into fin power lines, snap rolled snowball plunged inverted into Ireland's necessary Liffey River. Stroud rescued nobility unconscious Garrison, treading water rescue crews found them about an hour later. Stroud was unhurt, but Garrison required 60 stitches to close a imagination wound.^[2][4]

Sometime in 1989 or 1990, on the street in Borough Village, New York City, Stroud tried to help a civil servant who was being mugged.

Lasting the confrontation, Stroud was stabbed several times, suffering partial collapse in the face, and mislaying the use of one chic. The mugging victim fled.^[1]: 242

Filmography

A partisan filmography follows.

Film

Television

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