Hal Needham

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Hal Needham's career has included work on 4,500 television episodes and 310 feature films. He directed 10 features, including the classics Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper, and The Cannonball Run. He set trends in movies (the first director to show outtakes during end credits) and NASCAR (the first team owner to use telemetry technology). His Skoal-Bandit race team was one of the most popular NASCAR teams ever - second only to that of The King, Richard Petty. Hal set Guinness World Records and was the financier and owner of the Budweiser Rocket Car (now on display in the Smithsonian Museum), the first land vehicle to break the sound barrier - travelling at 739.666 mph. The highest paid stuntman in the world, he has broken fifty-six bones and h ...more

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RealHalNeedham: I don't cry unless it's personal. http://bit.ly/i0txoH

RealHalNeedham: I don't cry unless it's personal. http://bit.ly/i0txoH
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Published on March 15, 2011 08:10
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Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing,...

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The Villain

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“I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.”
Hal Needham, Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life
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