Roy Jenson
Roy Jenson ( born February 9, 1927 in Calgary, † April 24, 2007 in Los Angeles ) was an American actor and stuntman.
Life
Jenson's family moved to Los Angeles when he was still in infancy. He did his military service during the Second World War in the United States Navy from on a destroyer in the Pacific. In 1951, he earned his bachelor 's degree in geography at the University of California at Los Angeles, for which he took up in American football. He then became a professional in Canadian football and played for the Calgary Stampeders and the Montreal Alouettes. In addition, he worked as a stunt double, including for Robert Mitchum in River of No Return. Here he was often used as an extra or in small supporting roles, including as a nameless sailor in Edward Dmytryks The Caine Mutiny. By the time he moved his focus from working as a stuntman and only worked as an actor, but was far mostly not named in the 1960s in the credits. In the 1960s, he had many guest roles in television series, including such successful formats such as The Fugitive ( TV series), Solo for Oncel and the Starship Enterprise. In 1969 he worked on the westward wind pulls together for the first time with Clint Eastwood, followed to 1982 five more films together where Jenson partially represented larger supporting roles. In the early 1970s he played among others in Getaway with Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, 2022 ... want to survive alongside Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, and Roman Polanski's Chinatown next to Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Between 1972 and 1984, Jenson was seen in four films by John Milius.
Jenson was married twice. From his first marriage he had three children, who all work in show business. His son Martin in 2011 received an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound for The King 's Speech, the sons Morgan and Sasha work respectively as a screenwriter and actor. His second wife was Jenson until his death married to actress Marina Petrova, whom he had met during the filming of The Great Escape in Europe. His brother was the special effects artist George Jenson, who was involved in The Return of the Jedi among others.