Wally Rose

Wally Rose was a stuntman and actor who worked along with Chuck Madalone for Stunt Coordinator Dennis Madalone on the first season episode . Madalone and Rose provided Stunt Safety for the stairway stunt performed by stunt doubles David Balcorta and Hubie Kerns, Jr. on Thursday on Paramount Stage 16. He received no screen credit for this work but is listed on the call sheet for that day.
Born as one of six children to costume designer Lena and Rabbi Harris Rose in 1911 in New York City, Wally Rose started his career in the entertainment industry in the late 1930s. Throughout his 60 years in the entertainment industry, Rose worked as actor and stuntman.
Among his earlier acting and stunt work are films such as (1938), (1941, with David Sharpe and Carey Loftin), (1944), Strife of the Party (1944), Heather and Yon (1944), (1944), (1945), (1945), (1945), (1945), (1945, with Marc Lawrence), A Hit with a Miss (1945), Spook to Me (1945), Mr. Noisy (1946), (1946, with Anthony Caruso), (1946, with Richard Hale), (1946), (1946), The Blonde Stayed On (1946), (1946, with Jeff Corey and Gil Perkins), (1946), (1946, with Peter Brocco), (1947), (1947), (1947, with Leonard Mudie), (1947), (1947, with Carl Saxe), and (1947, with Jeff Corey, John Hoyt, Whit Bissell, and Tom Steele).
Further film work in the late 1940s and in the 1950s include Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1948), Flat Feat (1948), (1948, with Phillip Pine), Billie Gets Her Man (1948), (1948, with Paul Baxley), (1949), (1949, with Anthony Caruso, Peter Brocco, and Arthur Tovey), (1949), (1950), (1950, with Noble Chissell and Lois Hall), (1950, with Dick Crockett, Carey Loftin, and Tom Steele), (1953, with Biff Elliot, Elisha Cook, and Gil Perkins), (1956, with Arthur Tovey), (1956, with Nehemiah Persoff, Roy Jenson, Joseph Mell, and Arthur Tovey), (1956), (1959, with Stanley Adams), and (1959, with Bill Couch, Sr. and Bill Quinn).
Rose worked as stunt double for actor David Bond on the short comedy Hokus Pokus (1949) and also appeared in television series such as (1951), (1954), Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1955), (1956, with Robert Ellenstein and Gil Perkins), Dragnet (1956), The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1958, with Larry Dobkin), and M Squad (1959).
In the 1960s and 1970s he appeared in episodes of (1960, with Don Keefer, Dick Crockett, and Meg Wyllie), (1963, with Roger Perry, Marianna Hill, and Gil Perkins), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964, with Paul Baxley), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964, with Marc Lawrence), (1965, with Warren Stevens and Paul Baxley), (1966, with Lou Wagner), (1966, with Don Eitner), (1970), (1971, with Kevin Scott Allen and stunt coordination by Lou Elias), Future Cop (1977, with Irene Tsu and Gene LeBell and stunt coordination by George Sawaya), and (1978, with Tige Andrews, Antoinette Bower, Mark Russell, and Victor Paul).
He also performed stunts in (1960, with Joseph Ruskin, Paul Comi, Robert Herron, Roy Jenson, Carey Loftin, William Meader, Monty O'Grady, and Grace Lee Whitney), (1960, with Victor Lundin, Rex Holman, Paul Power, and Bill Couch, Sr.), (1960, with Jean Simmons), (1961, with Stanley Adams, Paul Stader, and Victor Paul), (1961, with Frank Gorshin, Roy Jenson, William Meader, Troy Melton, Monty O'Grady, Paul Stader, Roy N. Sickner, and Seamon Glass), (1963, with Branscombe Richmond, Hal Needham, Charles Seel, Jeffrey Byron, and Ron Veto), (1963), (1965, with John Hoyt and Anthony Caruso), (1965, with Bill Borzage, Bill Catching, Noble Chissell, Robert Herron, Chuck Hicks, Clegg Hoyt, Roy Jenson, Carey Loftin, Hal Needham, Gil Perkins, Charles Seel, Tom Steele, and Arthur Tovey), (1966, with Lee Meriwether, Frank Gorshin, Gil Perkins, Dick Crockett, George Sawaya, Lou Elias, Eddie Hice, Ed McCready, Monty O'Grady, Charles Picerni, and Arthur Tovey), (1966), (1966), (1968), (1969), (1970, with Pamelyn Ferdin and Bill Erwin), (1970), (1971), (1971), (1972), (1972), (1972), (1973), (1973), (1973), (1974, with David Huddleston, Benjie Bancroft, Jimmie Booth, Bill Catching, Dave Cadiente, Dick Crockett, Kenny Endoso, Seamon Glass, Bill McTosh, Troy Melton, Beans Morocco, Hal Needham, Monty O'Grady, Jack Perkins, George Sawaya, David Sharpe, Tom Steele, Jerry Summers, and Bill Zuckert), (1974), (1974), (1974), (1974), (1975, with Grainger Hines, Robert Pine, Benjie Bancroft, Bob Harks, Shep Houghton, and John Hugh McKnight), (1976), (1977, with Greg Barnett, Bob Harks, Max Kleven, John Moio, Alan Oliney, John Robotham, and Robert Bralver), (1978, with Joan Collins, David Huddleston, Troy Melton, Paul Baxley, Alan Gibbs, Gary Baxley, Bob Orrison, Jim Halty, Henry Kingi, Sr., Jerry Summers, and Christine Anne Baur), (1978, with Clay Hodges, George Wilbur, Robert Herron, Jimmy Nickerson, Mic Rodgers, Tom Morga, and Chuck Hicks), and (1979, with Elisha Cook, Stefan Gierasch, Allan Miller, Tom Steele, and Jerry Summers).
In the 1980s, Rose performed stunts in (1980), (1980, with Michelle Phillips, Jay Robinson, Ed McCready, and Bill Catching), (1980, with René Auberjonois, Mark Metcalf, Bruce Barbour, Jerry Maren, John Moio, Nancy Parsons, and Paul Willson), (1980, with Paul Baxley, Chuck Hicks, Christine Anne Baur, Kane Hodder, Gary Baxley, Kenny Endoso, Gary Epper, Pete Kellett, Pat McGroarty, Bob Orrison, Mic Rodgers, and Jerry Summers), (1983, with Sally Kellerman, Peter Mark Richman, John McLiam, Mark L. Taylor, Jimmy Nickerson, Walker Edmiston, Clay Hodges, Estee Chandler, and David LeBell), (1983), the television comedy Last of the Great Survivors (1984), (1985, with John Bloom, Dennis Ott, Don Pugsley, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Jr., Loren Janes, John-Clay Scott, Tony Epper, and Marshal Silverman), (1985, with Christopher Rydell, Greg Karas, Gene LeBell, Bruce Barbour, John Eskobar, Dana Dru Evenson, Terry Jackson, and Mario Roberts), (1985, with David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Vincent Schiavelli, and Joe W. Davis), (1987, with Kevin Peter Hall, William Frankfather, and John Bloom), (1987, with Kate Mulgrew, Raye Birk, Peter Brocco, Karen Westerfield, Kelly Gallant, Vince Deadrick, Jr., Donna Garrett, Marguerite Happy, Peter Horak, and Jim Wilkey), (1988), (1988), (1988, with Leslie Bevis, Jeff Kober, Roger Aaron Brown, Brian Thompson, Keone Young, Earl Boen, Frank Collison, Tom Morga, and Debra Dilley), (1989), (1989), and (1989, with Nick Dimitri, Bibi Besch, Jim Boeke, Jeff Smolek, and Cherie Tash) as well as episodes of (1982, with James B. Sikking, Barbara Bosson, Franklyn Seales, Betty McGuire, Marco Rodriguez, Nick Dimitri, Alan Oliney, and Ilona Wilson), (1986, with Corbin Bernsen, Kenneth Tigar, Jerry Hardin, and Ron Fassler), Beauty and the Beast (1987, with Ron Perlman, Robin Gammell, Louis Giambalvo, Edward Laurence Albert, Branscombe Richmond, Herta Ware, Jeanette Miller, Tom Morga, Leslie Neale, and Charlie Picerni), and Sledge Hammer! (1987, with Christine Healy, Leslie Morris, Patti Tippo, David Michael Graves, and Bill Zuckert).
In the last decade prior to his death, the 1990s, Rose performed stunts in (1990, coordinated by Jeff Smolek), (1990), the television comedy Partners in Life (1990), (1991, with Christine Anne Baur, George Colucci, B.J. Davis, Gary Jensen, Alan Oliney, Monty Rex Perlin, Jerry Spicer, Ben Jensen, and stunt coordination by Dennis Madalone), (1992, with Sally Kellerman and Andrea Martin), (1992, with Eddie Braun, Phil Chong, Eugene Collier, Nick Dimitri, Joy Hooper, Rita Minor, John Moio, and George Wilbur), (1992), (1992), (1993), (1993), (1993, with Hal Burton, Rosine "Ace" Hatem, Maria Kelly, Michelle Sebek, and Gene LeBell), Private Wars (1993), (1994, coordinated by Red Horton and Joe Murphy), (1994), (1994), (1994), Lion Strike (1994), (1995, coordinated by Doug Coleman), (1996), Mars (1997, with L.L. Ginter, Jeff Wolfe, Ed Anders, Chuck Borden, Ken Clark, Leslie Hoffman, Ken Lesco, and coordinated by Scott Leva), Double Tap (1997, coordinated by Michael J. Sarna), and (1997) and episodes of Tales from the Crypt (1990, with John Kassir, Michael Harris, Victor Paul, and Steve Picerni) and Men Behaving Badly (1996, with Bruce French).
Rose died of cancer at the age of 88 on 15 March 2000.
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