Jim Sheppard

Jim Sheppard was a stuntman who worked as stunt double for William O'Connell on the second season episode .
Sheppard began stunt work in 1958, and would become the regular stunt double for western star and doubled him in the action film Seven Ways From Sundown (1960, with Bob Herron), the western Posse from Hell (1961), Six Black Horses (1962, with Bill Catching and Robert Herron), Showdown (1963), Bullet for a Badman (1964, with Bob Herron), Apache Rifles (1964), Arizona Raiders (1965), Gunpoint (1966), and 40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967, with Jesse Wayne).
Further stunt work includes the western Major Dundee (1965, with Bill Catching, Robert Herron, and Hal Needham), the drama The War Lord (1965, with Hal Needham, Robert Herron, Tony Epper, and Ronald R. Rondell), the crime drama Harper (1966, with Paul Baxley, Dick Crockett, Robert Herron, Jerry Summers, and Ron Veto), the western Stagecoach (1966, with Jim Burk), the western Hour of the Gun (1967, with David Perna and Gary Combs), the science fiction film Planet of the Apes (1968), the western A Time for Dying (1969), the western The Wild Bunch (1969), the drama The Wind and the Lion (1975), and the western The Master Gunfighter (1975).
His television work includes episodes of The Big Valley (1966, with Celia Lovsky, Louise Sorel, and Warren Munson), Hondo (1967, with Roy N. Sickner and Ed McCready), and Gunsmoke (1970, with Ricardo Montalban).
In 1977, three days before his forty-second birthday, Sheppard was critically injured during the filming of the western Comes a Horseman. He was dragged to death behind a horse and hit his head on a fence post while filming in Westcliffe, Colorado, and later died in a nearby hospital. 
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