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Javaman

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Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:24 AM Nov 2018

'Wonder Woman' Stuntwoman Kitty O'Neil Dies At 72

https://comicbook.com/dc/2018/11/06/wonder-woman-stuntwoman-kitty-o-neil-dead/

In addition to being Carter's stunt double, O'Neil worked on several movies in the late 1970s and early 1980s including Two-Minute Warning (1976), Damien: Omen II (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980), and Smokey and the Bandit II (1980).

O'Neil — who lost her hearing at the age of 4 months due to measles and smallpox — was a trailblazer in the stunts industry, completing one of the biggest stunts of the time in 1979. While filming Wonder Woman, O'Neil reportedly plunged headfirst 127 feet off the roof of the Valley Hilton in Sherman Oaks, California onto an airbag set up near the hotel pool.

O'Neil told The Washington Post after the event that if she hadn't have hit the center of the bag, she would have been killed.

"She scared the heck out of me," Michaelson told THR. "I never met a human being that had no fear."
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