The fall guy: Memphis-born Hal Needham moved up from stunts to director’s chair

Published April 29, 2011 | By Bman

The fall guy: Memphis-born Hal Needham moved up from stunts to director’s chair
Hollywood stuntman-turned-movie director Hal Needham made millions of dollars and millions of fans with such Burt Reynolds car-crash crowd-pleasers as “Smokey and the Bandit,” “Hooper” and “The Cannonball Run.”
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