Ronnie Rondell Jr., ‘Wish You Were here’ by Pink Floyd

The veteran with over 200 credits, actor and stuntman has also worked on “Dead Machine”, “Matrix Reloaded” and “As Panthers”, among other films

Ronnie Rondell Jr.Hollywood stuntman immortalized in the fire by the coverage of I wish you were herefrom Pink FloydHe died at the age of 88.

He died on Tuesday 12, in a nursing home in Missouri, as announced by his family (through the Hollywood journalist). The cause has not been disclosed.

Stuntman and actor with over 200 credits in his filmography, Rondell Jr. is perhaps better known for a single photograph: the iconic cover of I wish you were here (1975), Pink Floyd’s album, where he was set on fire in a Hollywood study (Warner Bros. Studios), tightening the hand of a dress (Danny Rogers).

“At that moment I was doing a lot of work with fire and I had special costumes and all these equipment to fully involve the fire.”Rondell Jr. said in the documentary Pink Floyd: the story of Wish You Were here. “It was very easy to do, he did not represent a great risk for life and was well paid.”

To capture the photo, conceived by Storm Thorsen AND Audrey Powellfrom the HypgnosisRondell Jr. would have been set on fire 15 times, since the wind and other factors – “There is a fun thing in the fire: when you hit your face, you move”Rondell Jr. added: “They forced the numerous attempts.

During the filming, the flames made Rondell Jr. an eyebrow and part of the mustache, but the final result was worth it: I wish you were here It is often acclaimed as one of the best album covers of all time.

“Ronnie was very kind, considering … but for him, as a professional in the film industry, it was all a job”Powell said about Rondell Jr.

In a career in cinema and television that extended from 1955 to 2003, Rondell Jr. appeared significantly – although anonymously – or acted as coordinator of stunts in films and series such as Dead -machine, Batman and Robin, Twister, The crow, Predator 2, Karate Kid and the TV series The panthers. Although he retired in 2000, he returned to a last film, a sequence of persecution in Matrix Reloaded,, 2003, where your son Ra rondell He acted as coordinator of the acrobatic supervisor.

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Source: Terra

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