# Mickey Gilbert

Roderick Michael Gilbert (April 17, 1936 – February 5, 2024) was an American actor, stuntman and rodeo performer.

## Early life and career

Roderick Michael Gilbert was born in Los Angeles, California on April 17, 1936.
Gilbert was Robert Redford's stuntman in films, from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) through The Old Man & the Gun (2018). In the trailer for The Old Man & the Gun, Redford says that he and Gilbert "were in the same class in the same high school in the San Fernando Valley, and then many, many years later, he showed up in my life again as the stunt double in Butch Cassidy, so from that point on he's been in all my films since."
Some of Gilbert's best known stunt roles are the leap off a cliff into water as Redford's Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; jumping from a moving train to a signal for Gene Wilder in Silver Streak; rolling down a hill while mounted on a horse in The Return of a Man Called Horse; and leaping on horseback off a cliff into water in The Frisco Kid. Gilbert also appeared as a horse rider stunt performer in the 1980 TV movie Stunts Unlimited.
Later in his career he worked as a stunt coordinator and second unit director.
Gilbert portrayed the Ripper in the first episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

## Personal life and death

Gilbert married Yvonne Yrigoyen, whose father was also a stunt performer, in 1962. They had three sons, all of whom are also stunt performers, as are their five grandsons. He died at his home in Camarillo, California, on February 5, 2024, at the age of 87.

## Filmography
### Second unit director/stunts

| Year | Title | Stunts | Second unit director | Director |
| 1969 | The Wild Bunch | Yes | No | Sam Peckinpah |
| 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Yes | No | George Roy Hill |
| 1970 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Yes | No | Ted Post |
| 1971 | Sometimes a Great Notion | Yes | No | Paul Newman |
| 1972 | Joe Kidd | Yes | No | John Sturges |
| 1974 | Blazing Saddles | Yes | No | Mel Brooks |
| 1976 | The Return of a Man Called Horse | Yes | No | Irvin Kershner |
| 1978 | Every Which Way But Loose | Yes | No | James Fargo |
| 1979 | The Frisco Kid | Yes | No | Robert Aldrich |
| 1980 | The Blues Brothers | Yes | No | John Landis |
| 1981 | Honky Tonk Freeway | Yes | No | John Schlesinger |
| 1983 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Yes | No | Amy Heckerling |
| 1986 | Eye of the Tiger | Yes | No | Richard C. Sarafian |
| 1986 | The Golden Child | Yes | No | Michael Ritchie |
| 1987 | Big Shots | Yes | No | Robert Mandel |
| 1988 | Above the Law | Yes | Yes | Andrew Davis |
| 1989 | Renegades | Yes | Yes | Jack Sholder |
| 1990 | Problem Child | Yes | Yes | Dennis Dugan |
| 1990 | Young Guns II | Yes | Yes | Geoff Murphy |
| 1991 | City Slickers | Yes | Yes | Ron Underwood |
| 1992 | The Last of the Mohicans | Yes | Yes | Michael Mann |
| 1992 | Freejack | Yes | Yes | Geoff Murphy |
| 1993 | Ghost in the Machine | Yes | Yes | Rachel Talalay |
| 1994 | Monkey Trouble | Yes | No | Franco Amurri |
| 1994 | When a Man Loves a Woman | Yes | Yes | Luis Mandoki |
| 1994 | City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold | Yes | Yes | Paul Weiland |
| 1994 | Wes Craven's New Nightmare | Yes | Yes | Wes Craven |
| 1995 | Forget Paris | Yes | Yes | Billy Crystal |
| 1995 | Apollo 13 | Yes | No | Ron Howard |
| 1995 | Waterworld | No | Yes | Kevin Reynolds |
| 1995 | The Amazing Panda Adventure | Yes | Yes | Christopher Cain |
| 1996 | Spy Hard | Yes | No | Rick Friedberg |
| 1996 | A Time to Kill | Yes | No | Joel Schumacher |
| 1996 | The Nutty Professor | Yes | No | Tom Shadyac |
| 1997 | Liar Liar | Yes | Yes | Tom Shadyac |
| 1997 | Metro | Yes | Yes | Thomas Carter |
| 1997 | Gone Fishin' | Yes | Yes | Christopher Cain |
| 1998 | Simon Birch | No | Yes | Mark Steven Johnson |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Yes | Yes | Robert Redford |
| 1998 | Meet the Deedles | No | Yes | Steve Boyum |
| 1999 | Mystery Men | Yes | No | Kinka Usher |
| 2000 | Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | Yes | Yes | Peter Segal |
| 2001 | Rat Race | No | Yes | Jerry Zucker |
| 2002 | Dragonfly | Yes | Yes | Tom Shadyac |
| 2003 | National Security | Yes | Yes | Dennis Dugan |
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | Yes | Yes | Tom Shadyac |
| 2003 | Elf | No | Yes | Jon Favreau |
| 2007 | Evan Almighty | No | Yes | Tom Shadyac |
| 2008 | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | Yes | Yes | Various; television series |
| 2014 | Need for Speed | Yes | No | Scott Waugh |

### As stunt double

| Year | Title | Actor |
| 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Robert Redford |
| 1969 | Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Robert Redford |
| 1974 | Blazing Saddles | Gene Wilder |
| 1976 | Silver Streak | Gene Wilder |
| 1979 | The Electric Horseman | Robert Redford |
| 2018 | The Old Man & the Gun | Robert Redford |