[1] In a lengthy career spanning 61 years, his body of work included classic films such as Thunder Road, Bullitt, Vanishing Point, Duel, and The French Connection.
[1] Loftin was born in Blountstown, Florida, and grew up in Alabama and Mississippi where, he learned to ride a motorcycle when he was 10 years old.
[1] After serving in the United States Marine Corps, Loftin moved to Los Angeles, California, in the late 1930s where he worked as a mechanic.
[10][11] Loftin mentioned that the hardest stunt to do during his whole career was during the final scene in White Line Fever (1975) driving the main character truck, for which he was the only hired stuntman.
Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992), Revenge on the Highway (1992), Heat (1996), Hit & Run (1996), Fire Down Below (1997), Country Justice (1997), Breakdown (1997) and in Black Dog (1998) Aside from being a busy stuntman, Loftin also acted in bit parts of the many films and television shows in which he performed stunts.
[2] One of his most famous, yet discreet roles was as the murderous truck driver in Steven Spielberg's Duel (billed as Cary Loftin), in which only his arm and boots can be seen.
Loftin acted as a murderous faceless truck driver in Messenger of Death (1988) again with Tommy J. Huff and Gene Hartline, and had a supporting role as Skinner in the Keenan Wynn and Bob Mathias series The Troubleshooters, which aired on NBC in the 1959–1960 season.
[citation needed] Loftin has also previously mentioned that the hardest vehicle to drive during his whole career was a 1974 Autocar A64B seen in Maximum Overdrive (1986).