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Dar Allen Robinson (March 26, 1947 – November 21, 1986) was an American stunt performer and actor. Robinson broke 19 world records and set 21 "world's firsts." He invented the decelerator (use of dragline cables rather than airbags for stunts that called for a jump from high places) which allowed a cameraman to film a top-down view of the stuntman as he fell without accidentally showing the airbag on the ground. The original decelerator can still be seen on display in Moab, Utah. ==Career== Robinson grew up in Los Angeles, California. At the early age of nine, Dar made the cover of ''Life'' Magazine for his accomplished abilities on the trampoline. Dar's father, Jess Weston Robinson, was responsible for the "trampoline sensation" that swept the country. Dar spent many hours helping in his father's Gymnastic Supply Company. Dar's natural athletic abilities & by his accomplished ease on the trampoline would quickly render him the "ranking" of 3rd place for his division. One of Robinson's first major stunts was a 100 foot jump from a cliff into a river for actor Steve McQueen in the 1973 film, ''Papillon''. In the same year, he appeared as a motorcycle stunt man in the Clint Eastwood film, ''Magnum Force''. He is also remembered for driving over the edge of the Grand Canyon and safely parachuting out before hitting the ground. In 1979 he set the world record for a free-fall from a helicopter, dropping 311 feet (95 m) onto an airbag. In a highly publicized 1979 feat, as the stunt double for actor Christopher Plummer in the 1982 film ''Highpoint,'' Robinson made a 700 foot free-fall from a deck on the world's tallest free-standing structure, the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada. At 220 feet, the stunt from Atlanta's Hyatt Regency Hotel (doubling for the Westin Peachtree Plaza) in the 1981 Burt Reynolds film ''Sharky's Machine'' still holds up as the highest free-fall stunt ever performed from a building for a commercially-released film. However, despite it being a record-setting fall, only the beginning of the stunt as he goes through the window is used in the film. A dummy was used for the outside wide shot. However, Robinson performed a similar falling stunt for his largest role as an actor in the 1985 Burt Reynolds film ''Stick'', but this time all but the end of the stunt is fully visible as he is seen from above falling from a tall building firing a pistol at the same time.〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiKy3ktxw6M〕 Robinson returned to Toronto to attempt a world record cable jump from the CN Tower for a feature-length television documentary film called ''The World's Most Spectacular Stuntman''. The first test of the cable using a bag of water equal to Robinson's weight smashed into the ground when the cable snapped. High winds and bad weather delayed the jump until August 12, 1980. Although visibly nervous, he leapt from the tower's edge, plummeting more than 1,200 feet (366 m) tied to only a 1/8" (3 mm) steel cable, stopping only a short distance above the ground. For this feat he was listed as highest paid stuntman for a single stunt to date in the 1988 ''Guinness Book of Records''. One article claims he received an honorary Academy Award in 1995 for his work, but it is not listed in the Academy database.〔http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dar Robinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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