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3 unusual facts about Body Double


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A scene requiring Linda Hamilton to appear as two Sarah Connors in the same scene was created by employing Hamilton's identical twin sister Leslie as her double.

Hollywood Tower

It is also featured in Brian De Palmas 1984 thriller Body Double, a movie notable for its setting in a number of Los Angeles landmarks.

Slavitza Jovan

She made later appearances in House on Haunted Hill and Body Double.


Annette Haven

She was considered to play the lead female role in Body Double, which eventually went to Melanie Griffith, and became one of the director's consultants for the film.

Brian Mann

Through his career as a professional quarterback, Brian has landed roles as a body double for quarterback roles such as Adam Sandler's double in the remake of The Longest Yard and the role as the quarterback in Invincible.

Dave Eiland

During his time with the Devil Rays, Dave Eiland acted as a body double for Kevin Costner, who played a starting pitcher, in the 1999 film For Love of the Game.

In the Shadow of Saddam

Ramadan, who claims to be an Iraqi defector and former Saddam Hussein's body double, asserts in the book that in 1997, Hussein had ordered to develop "a highly virulent strain of West Nile virus as a bioterrorist weapon" capable to kill 97% of population in an urban environment.

Marli Renfro

Unperturbed at working nude, Renfro was hired as the body double for the actress Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.

Photo manipulation

The pioneer among journalists distorting photographic images for news value was Bernarr Macfadden: in the mid-1920s, his "composograph" process involved reenacting real news events with costumed body doubles and then photographing the dramatized scenes—then pasting faces of the real news-personalities (gathered from unrelated photos) onto his staged images.

Raymond Paul

In the 1955 film The Dark Avenger, Raymond Paul doubled for Errol Flynn during one sword duel, due to Flynn's taking ill at the time.

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

The Trojans' body doubles on the pitch were players from Brentford, during the First Division fixture between the two sides on 6 May 1939; this was the last match of the 1938–39 season and Arsenal's last official league fixture before the outbreak of the Second World War.


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Jonathon Prandi

He had a role in Deadly Ties as well as in the independent film Passion Fruits. Jonathon also was Pierce Brosnan's body double in the film The Thomas Crown Affair in 1999.

Kathy Troutt

Later hired for similar work for the feature film The Blue Lagoon where Troutt played body-double for Brook Shields.

Paula Winslowe

When actress Jean Harlow died on the set of the film Saratoga in 1937, it was decided that the film, 90% of which was completed, would be finished using a body double (Mary Dees) for Harlow, however Dees's voice was higher than that of Harlow.

Roberta Murgo

In November 2010 she worked as Kristen Stewart's stunt/body double while filming honeymoon scenes for Breaking Dawn.

Suzy McCoppin

She also worked as a body double for stars such as Kim Cattrall, Kate Moss, and Ashley Judd.

The Misadventure of Zoo

There, he was discovered by a Japanese spy, who wanted him to be a body double of Puyi, by then the Emperor of Manchukuo.

Tony Maxwell

He was one of the dancers in Weezer's "Buddy Holly" video directed by Spike Jonze, he played the Dog Boy in Jonze's video for Daft Punk's "Da Funk" and "Fresh", he choreographed the Dance of Despair in Jonze's Being John Malkovich, and he was Nicolas Cage's body double in Jonze's Adaptation..