Harvey Parry

Harvey Parry was an American stuntman and actor whose work reached from silent films to 1970s disaster movies. Born in San Francisco, California, he had been a boxing and diving champion and a circus acrobat before taking a studio job handling props. Realizing he was suited to stunts, he worked for Mack Sennett in 1919 and later doubled for Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921). He performed locomotive reverse shots for Monty Banks in Play Safe (1927), and for Lloyd's Safety Last! (1923) he did long shots of the skyscraper climb, a job he kept secret until after Lloyd died in 1971. Over more than 60 years he doubled for Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, George Raft, and Mary Pickford. He also acted in bit parts and had a recurring role on Baretta, the 1970 crime series, and played the referee in Raging Bull (1980). His last stunt work came in A Fine Mess (1986), released after he died in 1985.