Bob Herron

Bob Herron

Birthday: 1924-09-23

Place of Birth: Lomita, California, USA

Biography: Stuntman and actor Bob Herron was born on September 23, 1924 in Lomita, California. Herron grew up with his father in Hawaii. After his parents divorced, Bob's mother remained in California and married Ace Hudkins, who was a famous supplier of horses for movies. Following service in the Navy in the South Pacific, Herron started wrangling horses on movie sets for his stepfather Hudkins in 1946. Bob made the transition to stuntman in 1950 and went on to perform stunts in a slew of films and television shows in a career that spanned from the 1950's to the early 2010's.

Movies

The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...

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The Man from Bitter Ridge
The Man from Bitter Ridge

The Man from Bitter Ridge is a film directed by Jack Arnold. Jeff Carr, a special investigator, arri...

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The Great Race
The Great Race

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto m...

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Behind the Action: Stuntmen in the Movies
Behind the Action: Stuntmen in the Movies

This short documentary was first shown on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel. Stuntmen sp...

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The Mole People
The Mole People

A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a five millennia-old mutant Sumerian civilizatio...

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Seven Ways from Sundown
Seven Ways from Sundown

A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy...

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Man Afraid
Man Afraid

A preacher (George Nader) fears for his family (Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey) after killing a teenage ...

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Four Guns to the Border
Four Guns to the Border

A group of outlaws plan and execute a robbery in a small town. However, things go awry as the team a...

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Betrayed
Betrayed

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who live...

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Westbound
Westbound

As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes fights on a vital but little-known batt...

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The Slime People
The Slime People

After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters, a small group of people must fight...

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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Da...

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The Fifth Floor
The Fifth Floor

A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poisoning. Assu...

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The Great Impostor
The Great Impostor

Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and w...

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The Bank Shot
The Bank Shot

A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target ...

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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner,...

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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell...

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Mr. Billion
Mr. Billion

An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he...

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A Time for Dying
A Time for Dying

Passing through a town, a farm boy aspiring to be a bounty hunter rescues a woman who has been trick...

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A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very differen...

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The Domino Principle
The Domino Principle

Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence ...

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Local Color
Local Color

Mark Rappaport's off center soap opera parody concerning several characters including a barber, his ...

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Gun Fury
Gun Fury

After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off wit...

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Oklahoma Crude
Oklahoma Crude

In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly dr...

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Grave Secrets
Grave Secrets

A woman tormented by ghostly apparitions and a professor of psychic phenomena investigate other-worl...

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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan

Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enli...

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Movie Movie
Movie Movie

Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals,...

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The Over the Hill Gang
The Over the Hill Gang

A retired Texas Ranger and three aged pals help to clean up a town run by a crooked mayor, a drunken...

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There Was a Crooked Man...
There Was a Crooked Man...

A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of hi...

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The Seventh Sign
The Seventh Sign

Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's...

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The Man from the Alamo
The Man from the Alamo

During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to hel...

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