Actor and Stuntman.
Worked as a stuntman for films like: The Great Sioux Uprising (1953), The Last Command (1955), The Conqueror (1956), D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), The Ten Commandments (1956), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), The Dalton Girls (1957), The Left Handed Gun (1958), Tonka (1958), Spartacus (1960), The Alamo (1960), North to Alaska (1960), Sergeants 3 (1962), How the West Was Won (1962), McLintock! (1963), A Distant Trumpet (1964), Cat Ballou (1965), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), True Grit (1969), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Rio Lobo (1970), Dillinger (1973), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Appeared in films like The Great Sioux Uprising (1953), Gun Belt (1953), The Command (1954), D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957), The Dalton Girls (1957), The Left Handed Gun (1958) with Paul Newman, Spartacus (1960), The Alamo (1960) as one of Davy Crockett's men, North to Alaska (1960), How the West Was Won (1962), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), True Grit (1969), Rio Lobo (1970), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Boyd "Red" Morgan passed away in 1988.∼Boyd F Or Red Morgan, 72
BOYD MORGAN, ACTOR, STUNTMAN
Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Services will be held today for Boyd F. "Red" Morgan, a veteran actor and stuntman who took more than 2,000 falls from horseback in his motion picture and television career.
Morgan died of natural causes Jan. 8 at his Tarzana home. He was 72.
He was known as one of the best "horse-fallers in Hollywood," according to a 1976 article in "Horse and Horseman" magazine.
Morgan's favorite mount, according to the magazine, was a thoroughbred named "Hotrod," of whom he said: "I took Hotrod down on cue 1,017 times on camera - of which 1,009 were prints on the first take."
"And in all of those falls - and all my falls - neither horse or rider were ever injured."
Morgan, an Oklahoma native, appeared in motion pictures ranging from ''Fort Apache" to "The Manchurian Candidate" and television programs including "Gunsmoke," "Wagon Train," and "Bonanza".
He is survived by his wife, Lucille Morgan, and his children, Riley Morgan and Laurie Morgan, all residents of Tarzana.
Services will be at 3 p.m. today at the Church of the Hills, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills.
Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Boyd F Or Red Morgan, 72
Boyd F. Morgan; Actor, Athlete, Stunt Man
Los Angeles Times (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Boyd F. (Red) Morgan, 72, an actor and stunt man who boasted that in the 2,000 falls he had taken off horses in dozens of motion pictures and television shows, neither he nor his horses were ever injured. A halfback on the last USC football team Howard Jones ever coached, Morgan played professional football with the Washington Redskins before entering the film industry. He was seen as actor and stunt man in such TV series as "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza" and "Wagon Train" in addition to his work in film s. In 1983 he won the first Stuntmen's Life Achievement Award. At his ranch in Tarzana on Jan. 8 of apparent heart failure.
Los Angeles Times (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
CITE THIS RECORD
Los Angeles Times (California) 16 January 1988, obit for Boyd F. Morgan; Actor, Athlete, Stunt Man, GenealogyBank.com (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/0F8EAC7F802A9279 : accessed 19 April 2021)
Name Boyd Franklin Morgan
Sex Male
Death Date 08 Jan 1988
Death Place Los Angeles, California, United States
Death Place (Original) LOS ANGELES
Mother's Name Dickson
Birth Date 24 Oct 1915
Birthplace Oklahoma
Boyd Franklin Morgan's Parents and Siblings:
Father Oscar Edward Morgan
Mother Euna Dickson
Brothers Leon, Herman, Stacy and Lee
Sister Gail.
Worked as a stuntman for films like: The Great Sioux Uprising (1953), The Last Command (1955), The Conqueror (1956), D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), The Ten Commandments (1956), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), The Dalton Girls (1957), The Left Handed Gun (1958), Tonka (1958), Spartacus (1960), The Alamo (1960), North to Alaska (1960), Sergeants 3 (1962), How the West Was Won (1962), McLintock! (1963), A Distant Trumpet (1964), Cat Ballou (1965), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), True Grit (1969), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Rio Lobo (1970), Dillinger (1973), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Appeared in films like The Great Sioux Uprising (1953), Gun Belt (1953), The Command (1954), D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957), The Dalton Girls (1957), The Left Handed Gun (1958) with Paul Newman, Spartacus (1960), The Alamo (1960) as one of Davy Crockett's men, North to Alaska (1960), How the West Was Won (1962), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), True Grit (1969), Rio Lobo (1970), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Boyd "Red" Morgan passed away in 1988.∼Boyd F Or Red Morgan, 72
BOYD MORGAN, ACTOR, STUNTMAN
Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Services will be held today for Boyd F. "Red" Morgan, a veteran actor and stuntman who took more than 2,000 falls from horseback in his motion picture and television career.
Morgan died of natural causes Jan. 8 at his Tarzana home. He was 72.
He was known as one of the best "horse-fallers in Hollywood," according to a 1976 article in "Horse and Horseman" magazine.
Morgan's favorite mount, according to the magazine, was a thoroughbred named "Hotrod," of whom he said: "I took Hotrod down on cue 1,017 times on camera - of which 1,009 were prints on the first take."
"And in all of those falls - and all my falls - neither horse or rider were ever injured."
Morgan, an Oklahoma native, appeared in motion pictures ranging from ''Fort Apache" to "The Manchurian Candidate" and television programs including "Gunsmoke," "Wagon Train," and "Bonanza".
He is survived by his wife, Lucille Morgan, and his children, Riley Morgan and Laurie Morgan, all residents of Tarzana.
Services will be at 3 p.m. today at the Church of the Hills, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills.
Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Boyd F Or Red Morgan, 72
Boyd F. Morgan; Actor, Athlete, Stunt Man
Los Angeles Times (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Boyd F. (Red) Morgan, 72, an actor and stunt man who boasted that in the 2,000 falls he had taken off horses in dozens of motion pictures and television shows, neither he nor his horses were ever injured. A halfback on the last USC football team Howard Jones ever coached, Morgan played professional football with the Washington Redskins before entering the film industry. He was seen as actor and stunt man in such TV series as "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza" and "Wagon Train" in addition to his work in film s. In 1983 he won the first Stuntmen's Life Achievement Award. At his ranch in Tarzana on Jan. 8 of apparent heart failure.
Los Angeles Times (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
CITE THIS RECORD
Los Angeles Times (California) 16 January 1988, obit for Boyd F. Morgan; Actor, Athlete, Stunt Man, GenealogyBank.com (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/0F8EAC7F802A9279 : accessed 19 April 2021)
Name Boyd Franklin Morgan
Sex Male
Death Date 08 Jan 1988
Death Place Los Angeles, California, United States
Death Place (Original) LOS ANGELES
Mother's Name Dickson
Birth Date 24 Oct 1915
Birthplace Oklahoma
Boyd Franklin Morgan's Parents and Siblings:
Father Oscar Edward Morgan
Mother Euna Dickson
Brothers Leon, Herman, Stacy and Lee
Sister Gail.
Actor and Stuntman.
Worked as a stuntman for films like: The Great Sioux Uprising (1953), The Last Command (1955), The Conqueror (1956), D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), The Ten Commandments (1956), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), The Dalton Girls (1957), The Left Handed Gun (1958), Tonka (1958), Spartacus (1960), The Alamo (1960), North to Alaska (1960), Sergeants 3 (1962), How the West Was Won (1962), McLintock! (1963), A Distant Trumpet (1964), Cat Ballou (1965), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), True Grit (1969), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Rio Lobo (1970), Dillinger (1973), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Appeared in films like The Great Sioux Uprising (1953), Gun Belt (1953), The Command (1954), D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957), The Dalton Girls (1957), The Left Handed Gun (1958) with Paul Newman, Spartacus (1960), The Alamo (1960) as one of Davy Crockett's men, North to Alaska (1960), How the West Was Won (1962), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), True Grit (1969), Rio Lobo (1970), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Boyd "Red" Morgan passed away in 1988.∼Boyd F Or Red Morgan, 72
BOYD MORGAN, ACTOR, STUNTMAN
Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Services will be held today for Boyd F. "Red" Morgan, a veteran actor and stuntman who took more than 2,000 falls from horseback in his motion picture and television career.
Morgan died of natural causes Jan. 8 at his Tarzana home. He was 72.
He was known as one of the best "horse-fallers in Hollywood," according to a 1976 article in "Horse and Horseman" magazine.
Morgan's favorite mount, according to the magazine, was a thoroughbred named "Hotrod," of whom he said: "I took Hotrod down on cue 1,017 times on camera - of which 1,009 were prints on the first take."
"And in all of those falls - and all my falls - neither horse or rider were ever injured."
Morgan, an Oklahoma native, appeared in motion pictures ranging from ''Fort Apache" to "The Manchurian Candidate" and television programs including "Gunsmoke," "Wagon Train," and "Bonanza".
He is survived by his wife, Lucille Morgan, and his children, Riley Morgan and Laurie Morgan, all residents of Tarzana.
Services will be at 3 p.m. today at the Church of the Hills, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills.
Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Boyd F Or Red Morgan, 72
Boyd F. Morgan; Actor, Athlete, Stunt Man
Los Angeles Times (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Boyd F. (Red) Morgan, 72, an actor and stunt man who boasted that in the 2,000 falls he had taken off horses in dozens of motion pictures and television shows, neither he nor his horses were ever injured. A halfback on the last USC football team Howard Jones ever coached, Morgan played professional football with the Washington Redskins before entering the film industry. He was seen as actor and stunt man in such TV series as "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza" and "Wagon Train" in addition to his work in film s. In 1983 he won the first Stuntmen's Life Achievement Award. At his ranch in Tarzana on Jan. 8 of apparent heart failure.
Los Angeles Times (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
CITE THIS RECORD
Los Angeles Times (California) 16 January 1988, obit for Boyd F. Morgan; Actor, Athlete, Stunt Man, GenealogyBank.com (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/0F8EAC7F802A9279 : accessed 19 April 2021)
Name Boyd Franklin Morgan
Sex Male
Death Date 08 Jan 1988
Death Place Los Angeles, California, United States
Death Place (Original) LOS ANGELES
Mother's Name Dickson
Birth Date 24 Oct 1915
Birthplace Oklahoma
Boyd Franklin Morgan's Parents and Siblings:
Father Oscar Edward Morgan
Mother Euna Dickson
Brothers Leon, Herman, Stacy and Lee
Sister Gail.
Worked as a stuntman for films like: The Great Sioux Uprising (1953), The Last Command (1955), The Conqueror (1956), D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), The Ten Commandments (1956), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), The Dalton Girls (1957), The Left Handed Gun (1958), Tonka (1958), Spartacus (1960), The Alamo (1960), North to Alaska (1960), Sergeants 3 (1962), How the West Was Won (1962), McLintock! (1963), A Distant Trumpet (1964), Cat Ballou (1965), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), True Grit (1969), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Rio Lobo (1970), Dillinger (1973), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Appeared in films like The Great Sioux Uprising (1953), Gun Belt (1953), The Command (1954), D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957), The Dalton Girls (1957), The Left Handed Gun (1958) with Paul Newman, Spartacus (1960), The Alamo (1960) as one of Davy Crockett's men, North to Alaska (1960), How the West Was Won (1962), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), True Grit (1969), Rio Lobo (1970), and Blazing Saddles (1974).
Boyd "Red" Morgan passed away in 1988.∼Boyd F Or Red Morgan, 72
BOYD MORGAN, ACTOR, STUNTMAN
Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Services will be held today for Boyd F. "Red" Morgan, a veteran actor and stuntman who took more than 2,000 falls from horseback in his motion picture and television career.
Morgan died of natural causes Jan. 8 at his Tarzana home. He was 72.
He was known as one of the best "horse-fallers in Hollywood," according to a 1976 article in "Horse and Horseman" magazine.
Morgan's favorite mount, according to the magazine, was a thoroughbred named "Hotrod," of whom he said: "I took Hotrod down on cue 1,017 times on camera - of which 1,009 were prints on the first take."
"And in all of those falls - and all my falls - neither horse or rider were ever injured."
Morgan, an Oklahoma native, appeared in motion pictures ranging from ''Fort Apache" to "The Manchurian Candidate" and television programs including "Gunsmoke," "Wagon Train," and "Bonanza".
He is survived by his wife, Lucille Morgan, and his children, Riley Morgan and Laurie Morgan, all residents of Tarzana.
Services will be at 3 p.m. today at the Church of the Hills, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills.
Daily News of Los Angeles (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Boyd F Or Red Morgan, 72
Boyd F. Morgan; Actor, Athlete, Stunt Man
Los Angeles Times (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
Boyd F. (Red) Morgan, 72, an actor and stunt man who boasted that in the 2,000 falls he had taken off horses in dozens of motion pictures and television shows, neither he nor his horses were ever injured. A halfback on the last USC football team Howard Jones ever coached, Morgan played professional football with the Washington Redskins before entering the film industry. He was seen as actor and stunt man in such TV series as "Gunsmoke," "Bonanza" and "Wagon Train" in addition to his work in film s. In 1983 he won the first Stuntmen's Life Achievement Award. At his ranch in Tarzana on Jan. 8 of apparent heart failure.
Los Angeles Times (CA) - Saturday, January 16, 1988
CITE THIS RECORD
Los Angeles Times (California) 16 January 1988, obit for Boyd F. Morgan; Actor, Athlete, Stunt Man, GenealogyBank.com (https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/0F8EAC7F802A9279 : accessed 19 April 2021)
Name Boyd Franklin Morgan
Sex Male
Death Date 08 Jan 1988
Death Place Los Angeles, California, United States
Death Place (Original) LOS ANGELES
Mother's Name Dickson
Birth Date 24 Oct 1915
Birthplace Oklahoma
Boyd Franklin Morgan's Parents and Siblings:
Father Oscar Edward Morgan
Mother Euna Dickson
Brothers Leon, Herman, Stacy and Lee
Sister Gail.
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