Harry Woolman

Harry Simon Woolman was a racecircuit, film, and TV stuntman, specializing in motorcycle jumps, car crashes, and pyrotechnics, from the 1930s through the early 1960s. From the 1960s until his retirement in the mid1980s, he designed mechanical special effects for films and television. He also acted in bit parts over this span.

Woolman was born and raised in rural Elkton, Maryland, the Marriage Capital of the East Coast, where elopers would run from neighboring States for a nowait wedding. An aspiring motorcycle daredevil, he would ride his cycle backwards or standing on his head, at the outskirts of town attracting the matrimonybound to stop and ask for directions, when he would offer to guide them to one of the 24hour chapels for tips. One of these clients was a Hollywood producer down from New York City who invited Woolman look him up for a job if he was ever in California.

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