AJ Bakunas
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About
Famous for his death as a result of the filming of the 1980 movie Steel, this stuntman had previously accomplished a world-record-breaking, more than 200-foot-fall during the filming of the 1978 movie Hooper.
Before Fame
Before becoming a Hollywood stuntman, he was a physical education teacher at a high school in New Jersey. His first stunt gig was in the 1975 movie Dog Day Afternoon.
Trivia
Before his airbag broke when he hit the ground, he had been falling at a speed of over one hundred miles per hour.
Family Life
He was born and raised in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Associated With
When he performed his fatal stunt fall from Lexington, Kentucky's Kincaid Towers, he was acting as the stand-in for actor George Kennedy.
