Mickey Gilbert

Mickey Gilbert was an American stuntman and actor who also worked as a rodeo performer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he spent years as Robert Redford's stuntman, beginning with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and ending with The Old Man & the Gun (2018). Among his best-known stunts were a cliff dive into water as Redford's Sundance Kid, a jump to a signal from a moving train while doubling Gene Wilder in Silver Streak, a horseback roll down a hill for the film The Return of a Man Called Horse, and a horseback leap into water from a cliff in The Frisco Kid. He also did horse rider stunt work in the 1980 television movie Stunts Unlimited. He later worked in stunt coordination and second unit direction, and he played the Ripper in the first installment of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Gilbert died in 2024.