Steve Cooled Down the Blob! The stunt that he personally performed when he jumped the fence in The Great Escape was mega kool!
If I have the story straight, the movie company wouldn’t let
him. Bud Ekins did it.
Yup.
‘Although Steve McQueen did his own motorcycle riding, there was one stunt he did not perform: the hair-raising 60-foot jump over a fence. This was done by McQueen’s friend Bud Ekins, who was managing a Los Angeles-area motorcycle shop when recruited for the stunt. It was the beginning of a new career for Ekins, as he later doubled for McQueen in Bullitt (1968) and did much of the motorcycle riding on the television series “CHiPs” (1977).’
Any votes for the Fonz? He did some great jumps too.