Who was an American professional stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor in the U.S. film industry who appeared in a black and white 1958 drama–crime film about running moonshine in the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee in the late 1950s?
Carey Loftin William Carey Loftin (January 31, 1914 – March 4, 1997; akas: Cary Loftin, Carry Loftin, Carey Lofton, William Carey Loftin) was an American professional stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor in the U.S. film industry. He is considered to be one of the film industry's most accomplished stunt drivers. In a lengthy career spanning 61 years, his body of work included classic films such as "Thunder Road", "Bullitt", "Vanishing Point" and "The French Connection". He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2001.
Mississippi Burning Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker, and written by Chris Gerolmo. It is loosely based on the FBI's investigation into the 1964 Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner murder case in Mississippi. The film stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI agents assigned to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi. The investigation is met with hostility and backlash by the town's residents, local police and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).