[2][3] At the age of fourteen, Rose doubled Ruth Roland in a serial and then started racing motorcycles and performing high dives.
[4] Rose then doubled actors such as Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Harry Houdini, Eddie Cantor, William Gargan, Ben Turpin, Chico Marx, Mary Pickford, Maureen O'Sullivan, Fay Wray and Buster Keaton among others.
Rose wrote the script and appeared in the film Lucky Devils that featured the lives of stuntmen.
[6] Rose also worked in King Kong, She, Thank You, Jeeves!, The Hurricane, Slave Ship, Ali Baba Goes to Town, Mysterious Mr. Moto, The Rains Came, Seven Sinners, Saratoga Trunk, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, Attack, The Alamo, Guns of the Timberland and The Great Race.
He was one of the founders of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures and of the Hollywood Stuntman Hall of Fame.