 | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "David Sharpe" actor – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Dave Sharpe | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | David Hardin Sharpe (1910-02-02)February 2, 1910 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | March 30, 1980(1980-03-30) (aged 70) Altadena, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Stunt performer, actor |
| Years active | 1922–1978 |
| Spouse(s) | Jean Allen (?-?) Gertrude Messinger (April 1932 - May 1935; divorced) Thelma Mae Crawford (January 1949 - April 1952; divorced) Mary Lou Dix, aka Mary Louise Wolfe (1956-?) |
| Children | 1 |
David Hardin Sharpe (February 2, 1910 – March 30, 1980) was an American actor and stunt performer, sometimes billed as Davy Sharpe.
Biography
Sharpe's father was Harry Sharpe, a fight referee in St. Louis.
Sharpe won the US National Tumbling Championship in 1925 and 1926. He began his film career as a child actor in the 1920s. Eventually he became the "Ramrod" (stunt coordinator) for Republic Pictures from 1939 until mid-1942 when the USA entered World War II. He was replaced in this role by Tom Steele while Sharpe joined the Army Air Corps in 1943.
Personal life and death
Sharpe married film actress Gertrude Messinger in 1932. He died in 1980, aged 70, of Lou Gehrig's disease (some sources cited Parkinson's disease).
Recognition
In 1979, Sharpe received the Yakima Canutt Award, which honors stuntmen. Sharpe was inducted into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame in 1980.
Selected filmography
- Air Tight (1931)
- Call a Cop! (1931)
- Too Many Women (1932)
- Social Error (1935)
- Adventurous Knights (1935)
- Ghost Town (1936)
- Idaho Kid (1936)
- Desert Justice (1936)
- Santa Fe Rides (1937)
- Melody of the Plains (1937)
- Galloping Dynamite (1937)
- Where Trails Divide (1937)
- Young Dynamite (1937)
- Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939)
- Dick Tracy Returns (1938)
- Man's Country (1938)
- Covered Wagon Trails (1940)
- Mutiny in the Arctic (1941)
- Silver Stallion (1941)
- Texas to Bataan (1942)
- Trail Riders (1942)
- Two Fisted Justice (1943)
- Haunted Ranch (1943)
- The Good Humor Man (1950)
References
- Cline, William C. (2000-09-15). Serials-ly Speaking: Essays on Cliffhangers. McFarland. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-7864-0918-1.
- ^ "Miss Messinger Bride Of David Sharpe After Elopement". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. April 21, 1932. p. 13. Retrieved September 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- David Sharpe biography, B-Westerns.com. Accessed November 28, 2022.
- "Stuntman Sharpe Gets Canutt Award". The Los Angeles Times. California, Los Angeles. May 28, 1979. p. 14 – Part IV. Retrieved 30 June 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
 | This article about a United States film actor born in the 1910s is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
- 1910 births
- 1980 deaths
- Male actors from St. Louis
- American stunt performers
- American male film actors
- Male film serial actors
- Male Western (genre) film actors
- American male child actors
- Deaths from motor neuron disease in California
- United States Army Air Forces soldiers
- United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
- 20th-century American male actors
- American film actor, 1910s birth stubs