Brad Harris

Brad Harris, an American actor and stuntman, worked mostly in European productions and appeared in more than 50 films. Born in St. Anthony, Idaho, he moved with his family to California. He entered film as a stand-in and stuntman, with early roles in Monkey on My Back and Li'l Abner, and performed stunts in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus after traveling to Rome for the 1960 Summer Olympics. He stayed in Europe during the boom in sword and sandal pictures, Eurospy films and Spaghetti Westerns, becoming a leading man in 1961 in Goliath Against the Giants and Samson, two Gianfranco Parolini films. He worked often with Parolini and with Tony Kendall, and appeared in the Kommissar X and The Three Fantastic Supermen series. He was executive producer on several films, including The Mutations (1974), played Deputy Duffy on Falcon Crest, and made his last film, the 1999 comedy Boom. He was inducted into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame.