LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Variety is reporting the death of director Hal Needham. The "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Cannonball Run" director was 82. Variety reported Needham died in Los Angeles after a ...

"As long as it was only a certain amount of pubic hair showing, I was all for it," the star of documentary 'The Bandit' admitted at the SXSW Festival in Austin. By Natalie Stone In an interview at ...

Jason Statham has called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to finally recognise the work that Hollywood's stunt actors at the Oscars ceremony. The Brit actor, who does most of his own ...

This is FRESH AIR. Hal Needham probably was one of the most famous Hollywood stunt doubles. He did all kinds of stunts in all kinds of movies, but he got his start in Western movies and TV shows such ...

Hollywood stuntman Hal Needham — one of the most famous practitioners of his dangerous craft — died of cancer on Oct. 25 at age 82. We'll listen back to a conversation with Needham from Feb. 7, 2011, ...

Former stuntman and director Hal Needham dies at age 82 He wrote and directed the 1977 Burt Reynolds action comedy %27Smokey and the Bandit%27 Heaven just gained a guy who could jump out of a plane or ...

One of Hollywood’s most famous stuntmen and the writer-director of Smokey And The Bandit died this morning. Hal Needham, who received an Honorary Oscar this year, was 82. The co-founder of Stunts ...

In an interview at Austin’s South by Southwest Festival, Burt Reynolds opened up about his most recent film, the documentary The Bandit, as well as one of his biggest (and widely recognized) regrets. ...

Longtime stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham has died after a short battle with cancer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 82. After working on roughly 300 movies and 4,500 episodes of ...