Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88

Ronnie Rondell Jr, who was famous on the front cover of Pink Floyd’s iconic Wish You Baden album cover, died at the age of 88.

According to an online death announcement, Hollywood stunt and actor died on August 12 in a care house in the US state.

Throughout his long career, Rondell took part in a series of film and TV shows, including deadly weapons, Thelma and Louise and Star Trek: First Contact.

He survived by his wife Mary and his son, also called Ronald.

Rondell was born in 1937 in California and took the first acting role in Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair in the early 1950s.

The first role as a stunt was for the Fortune series of the TV series soldiers, which lasted from 1955 to 1957.

Between the 1960s and 1990s, he worked in several US TV series, including Charlie’s Angels, Dynasty and Baywatch, and films such as Spartacus, Diamonds Area Forever and Karate Kid.

One of the most well -known stunts jumped from a burning pole as it was overthrown – a success for Kings of the Sun in the 1963 adventure film.

In addition, the 1965 film during the US Civil War took part in the fighting scenes in Shenandoah.

Later, he worked as a stunt coordinator for films such as Batman and Robin and Robin and The Mighty Ducks.

Many of them may not recognize Rondell’s name, probably they will probably have seen that they heard on the cover of Pink Floyd’s 1975 album Wish You Badin’s duble, Danny Rogers.

During the shooting, the wind changed direction and blew the fire in the air and caused him to lose a part of his eyebrow and signature mustache.

In 1970, Rondell founded his own Stunts Stunts Unlimited in California.

He retired in 2001, but won the latest stunt loan for the matrix, which was reinstated in 2003, joined a complex car chase scene.

Rondell was given a lifetime of success dignity at the Taurus World Dublor Awards in 2004.

He wasn’t the only artist in the family. In 80 days, his father Ronald R Rondell was a actor and assistant director known for his work on films, including the 1956 adaptation of the Novel Jules Verne.

Both Rondell’s sons died in 1985 while making a helicopter stunt for Airwolf in 1985.