Terry Leonard

Terry Leonard is a stunt performer and second unit director from the United States. Born and raised in West Allis, Wisconsin, he grew up on a farm and later attended the University of Arizona. After his football career ended, he contacted the stunt performer Chuck Roberson, who taught him horse stunts, and he later trained with martial artist Joe Lewis and also learned race car driving. Leonard made his stunt debut in El Dorado (1966). His best known stunt came in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), where he doubled Harrison Ford during the truck chase, leaping from a horse and going beneath the truck. He was Michael Douglas's stunt double on Romancing the Stone (1984), driving a Jeep over a waterfall. He handled stunts on every film by John Milius. In 2003 he received the Golden Boot Award and the Taurus Lifetime Achievement Award.